What does success look like in year one under Nick Rolovich?

Photo by Alika Jenner/Getty Images This is the latest installment in our series of stories previewing the 2020 Washington State Cougars football season. For other installments, click here.

Even in the most ideal circumstances, setting expectations for a coach’s first season is tricky — and maybe even trickier at a place like Washington State, where winning more games than we lose has almost never been a foregone conclusion.

Schools with long track records of success can expect big results in year one after bringing in a proven guy in for a gazillion dollars or elevating an assistant who simply will continue to maximize the school’s ample resources. Those kinds of expectations are not always…