12-18-02 front, 4 12/17/02 10:52 PM Page 1 WEDNESDAY Act out December 18, 2002 WSU students audition for spring break movie Early snow News | 5 High: 36 | Low: 26 More weather, Page 2 Volume 108 | No. 84 | [email protected] | www.dailyevergreen.com A student publication of Washington State University | Pullman, Washington wsufootball PACKING UP Price Cougar fans hit leaves hard WSU by loss Jennifer Jackson Jahmal Corner Daily Evergreen staff Daily Evergreen staff The voice of discontent car- Speculation is now procla- ried through the air Tuesday mation. night faster than the brisk WSU coach Mike Price night winds of Eastern announced in a team meeting Washington. Tuesday night that he’ll be Earlier in the evening, the resigning from his duties at same winds carried away a pri- WSU, freshman kicker vate plane containing WSU Graham Siderius told The football coach Mike Price, who Daily Evergreen. Price held a resigned from his position team meet- Tuesday to take over the head ing around 5 Stay coaching position at the p.m. and University of Alabama. reportedly Even before Price left for tuned Tuscaloosa, Ala., WSU stu- told the team See www. he will dents, alumni and supporters dailyevergreen. Mark Han/Daily Evergreen across the state let their oppo- accept the com today Mike Price takes some files with him as he leaves Bohler Gym Tuesday night after informing the WSU Alabama sition to the leaving of the for more news football team that he will take the job at the University of Alabama. beloved coach be known. head coach- on Price’s ing position. “I feel like my Christmas is successor destroyed,” said Patricia “Even and how though it’s Karstens of Tacoma. Her son to get Rose graduated from WSU in 1989 sad and the Bowl tickets. Mike Price Bill Doba whole team and her family still donates to The Web site Born: April 6, 1946 Born: Sept. 7, 1940 the university. “I think the loves coach should Price, the Hometown: Everett Hometown: South Bend, Ind. school will be lost without him, be updated Coaching experience: Coaching experience: because he is the heart and team under- by noon. stands,” • WSU: 1989-2002: • WSU: 1989-present: defen- soul and principle of the uni- Siderius Compiled an 83-77 record, sive coordinator, linebackers. versity. said. “I feel sad about the whole including conference co- • The Citadel: 1987-88: “No other coach would care thing; coach Price is one of the championships in 1997 and defensive coordinator, enough to bench a player until main reasons I came to 2002. Price is the only inside linebackers. Team they were healed. He cared Pullman.” Cougar coach to take WSU qualified for the NCAA I-AA about his players. I am devas- WSU Athletic Director Jim to four bowl games (five Price playoffs in 1988. Doba tated about it.” Sterk has set a press confer- including this season). Price • Purdue: 1983-86: outside Jeff Landon, a senior crimi- ence for this morning at 10:30, also took WSU to two Rose Bowls. linebackers (’83-85); tight ends, tackles (’86). nal justice major, agreed. in which he is expected to • Weber State College: 1981-89: • Indiana: 1977-82: outside linebackers (’77- “He’s a good guy, and I announce Price’s departure. Compiled a 46-44 record, including a 10-3 mark 81); quarterbacks, receivers (’82). Team fin- think he is what Cougar foot- Both Price and Sterk said in 1987, the best in the school’s history. ished 8-4 and won Holiday Bowl in 1979. ball and WSU are. He’s been that WSU defensive coordina- with us through thick and tor Bill Doba likely is to assume thin. We were pretty bad for the head coaching role next some years, but he stuck season, Siderius said. ’Bama known for its success around.” Price told the team it was an For some members of the While WSU coach Mike Price has left 51 Bowl Game appearances Pullman community, seeing offer he couldn’t refuse, and it behind a great legacy at WSU, he steps into was best for his family. Alabama defeated Iowa State 14-13 in the Price leave after 14 years as an even richer history at the University of WSU’s head coach was difficult. Siderius said the announce- Alabama. 2001 Independence Bowl. ment evoked dead silence from “It’s a loss to the communi- Following practice Monday, Price called the ty,” said Pullman Mayor Mitch team members, and there Alabama coaching vacancy “the premier coach- 87 First-Team All-Americans were mixed reactions. Price Chandler. “He has had good ing job in America.” The prestigious list includes Seattle leadership. From a mayoral announced during a Sunday Indeed, Alabama’s school history includes: practice that he would not be Seahawks running back Shaun Alexander, who perspective, he has made his accepting the UCLA coaching played for Alabama from 1996-99. students responsible for their position, and Siderius said 12 National Championships actions, and I hope the new 754 wins in 108 seasons coach does the same.” players were confused because Alabama won its last title in 1992 under Price said nothing about the “He’s such a good coach,” coach Gene Stallings, who led them to a 13-0 Alabama went 10-3 this season after going 7- said Natalie Kuzmick, a fresh- Alabama job. record. 5 in 2001. “There were a lot of different man communication major. “Since it’s only my freshman emotions and people in there,” 21 SEC Championships NFL players junior defensive tackle year, I was hoping he’d be here for all four years so I could see Jeremey Williams told The Coach Mike DuBose led the Crimson Tide to Alabama currently has 19 former players their last conference championship in 1999, playing with NFL teams. 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