Jake Dickert, Washington State University’s 40-year-old, second-year head football coach, was born and raised in Wisconsin. He still travels there each summer with his wife and three children to visit family and friends. His great uncle played football for the University of Wisconsin. After WSU upset the Badgers in Madison last season, television cameras captured Dickert’s emotional celebration with several family members at midfield.
So when Dickert’s Cougars beat Wisconsin again last weekend—this time in Pullman, again as underdogs—it figured that Dickert might be good for some postgame catharsis.
He certainly was, but for a starkly different reason.
The Pac-12 Conference is splintering next summer,
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