Not since Mike Leach’s first spring in 2012 has Washington State opened a spring football season with question marks at so many different spots.
Between the graduation of 19 seniors who were in the two-deep, Hercules Mata’afa’s early departure for the NFL, the exits of six assistant coaches, and, most significantly, the suicide death of junior quarterback Tyler Hilinski, WSU begins its 2018 spring football practice schedule on Thursday with a host of new faces at every position.
This feels more like a remake of a popular movie with a new cast and crew than a sequel to a blockbuster with the main actors reprising their roles.