David Riley

Ronnie Harrison, you know, he's supposed to be our best player this season, was in a boot to start the game.

So the festivities already starting for the Cougs this season under David Riley.

0-1, a loss to Davidson.

And, you know, they've got – let's see here.

Yeah, they took down the Huskies, but I don't think that's anything to write home about, but still.

After the loss, David Riley looks defeated in his postgame press here.

But one, it's the first game of the season.

R looks defeated.

Or if it's not a coaching problem, that means that you're bringing in the players that are not absorbing your coaching and are not coachable, and that's a talent evaluation problem.

It's probably a mixture of both, but Washington State has a big issue here.

Yeah, this was – look, I've never been a big fan of David Riley.

I think he's found diamonds in the rough.

Yeah, well, we'll see.

I would like David Riley to conjure up some magic.

I still believe in him as the head coach.

I think he is a good head coach.

I have Wazoo there.

Um, again, last year was not great.

I do think David Riley is a good coach.

I just think it's a lot to put together.

I think they're going to be taking their lumps this year again.

Kind of wondering if David Riley is going to get a fourth year.

If he does, it's unfortunate that his first year, he had a lottery picket Cedric Coward in his lineup.

He just never got to use him because he was hurt for it.

He was hurt all the time.

He is, no joke, he is now an eighth-year player, which goes to show just how long he's been playing college basketball.

He played for David Riley at Eastern Washington, was a really good player for Eastern Washington for a number of years, including a couple of years where Eastern Washington won the regular season Big Sky title and then just for whatever reason could not finish off the Big Sky Conference tournament.

He was a big reason for a lot of the successes that they eastern washington program had law and watts he's got a lot of family ties he's coming to the program as well and then they've also you know gone out and hit the international market as well nicola zapina he's a guy who's coming in from you know outside of the united states what was interesting is that cbs sports put together what they kind of researched as each team's nil budget and unfortunately for washington they came in at the very bottom of the big 10 and around $7 million, which compared to the Illinois of the world, compared to Michigan, compared to Michigan State, Ohio State, all those other programs, I mean, you're looking at maybe half, maybe a third of their budgets in terms of basketball NIL.

True.

My point was, and then obviously Ben Jacobson, and David Riley as well, Terrence Johnson.

You see Justin Joyner over there at Oregon State in his first year, and then Vince Wahlberg.

And then Ali Farukhmanich, the famous shot.

They are.

They are.

Give me David Riley and this Wazoo misfit team.

Overachieve here.