@019 Washington State Football Media Guide 1 2019 WASHINGTON STATE 2 QUICK FACTS WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY QUICK FACTS COACHING STAFF FOUNDED: 1890 HEAD COACH: Mike Leach (BYU ‘83) NICKNAME: Cougars CAREER RECORD (Years): 133-83 (17) COLORS: Crimson and Gray WSU RECORD (Years): 49-40 (7) CONFERENCE: Pac-12 STAFF: ENROLLMENT: 20,286 (Pullman campus) Dave Emerick, Senior Associate A.D./Chief of Staff, 8th Year LOCATION: Dennis Slutak, Director of Football Operations, 1st Year P. O. Box 641602 Tyson Brown, Head Strength and Conditioning Coach, 6th Year Pullman, WA 99164-1602 Tracy Claeys, Defensive Coordinator, 2nd Year STADIUM: Martin Stadium (32,952 - Field Turf) Roc Bellantoni, Linebackers, 1st Year PRESIDENT: Kirk H. Schulz Matt Brock, Special Teams, Outside Linebackers, 2nd Year ATHLETIC DIRECTOR: Patrick Chun Darcel McBath, Cornerbacks, 2nd Year FACULTY ATHLETIC REP: Dr. Nancy Swanger Eric Mele, Running Backs, 5th Year TICKET OFFICE: 509-335-9626, 800-GO-COUGS Mason Miller, Offensive Line, 2nd Year GENERAL DEPARTMENT: 509-335-0311 Dave Nichol, Inside Receivers, 4th Year WSU ATHLETICS FAX: 509-335-5197 Jeff Phelps, Defensive Line, 3rd Year WSU FOOTBALL OFFICE: 509-335-0250 Kendrick Shaver, Safeties, 2nd Year WSU ATHLETICS WEBSITE: www.wsucougars.com Steve Spurrier Jr., Outside Receivers, 2nd Year Brittany Thackery, Manager of Player Personnel, 2nd Year WSU ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS Drew Hollingshead, Offensive Quality Control, 4th Year OFFICE ADDRESS: Carson Cramer, Offensive Quality Control, 1st Year Bohler Athletic Complex 195 Tim Burmeister, Defensive Quality Control, 1st Year Pullman, WA 99164-1602 Kip Edwards, Defensive Quality Control, 3rd Year OFFICE PHONE: 509-335-COUG Mitch Viger, Graduate Assistant - Defense, 1st Year OFFICE FAX: 509-335-0267 Quenton Maag, Graduate Assistant - Defense, 2nd Year MARTIN STADIUM PRESS BOX: 509-335-COUG Shane Ros, Graduate Assistant - Offense, 3rd Year ASSOC. A.D./ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS: Bill Stevens Shane Gallant, Graduate Assistant, Special Teams, 2nd Year OFFICE PHONE: 509-335-4294 Amir Owens, Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach, 2nd Year CELL: 916-761-7005 Chad Traver, Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach, 4th Year EMAIL: [email protected] Richard Guarascio, Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach, 3rd Year SPORTS: Football, Women’s Tennis Danny Kistler Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach, 2nd Year ASST. DIRECTOR: Bobby Alworth Jon Hevron, Manager of Digital Media, 1st Year OFFICE PHONE: 509-335-5785 CELL: 951-452-6129 WSU ALL-TIME RECORD: 550-553-45 (123 Seasons) EMAIL: [email protected] CONFERENCE RECORD: 283-373-25 SPORTS: Football, Baseball, Swimming BOWL GAME RECORD: 8-7 ASST. DIRECTOR: Jessica Holmes 2018 RECORD: 11-2 OFFICE PHONE: 509-335-0255 PAC-12 RECORD: 7-2 EMAIL: [email protected] OFFENSE: Spread SPORTS: Men’s Basketball, Men’s and Women’s Golf, Rowing DEFENSE: 3-4 ASST. DIRECTOR: Ben Laskey OFFICE PHONE: 509-335-0265 RETURNING LETTERWINNERS: 40 EMAIL: [email protected] DEFENSE: 17 SPORTS: Women’s Soccer, Women’s Basketball OFFENSE: 20 ASST. DIRECTOR: Devon Lucal SPECIAL TEAMS: 3 OFFICE PHONE: 509-335-0268 EMAIL: TBA RETURNING STARTERS: 14 SPORTS: Volleyball, Cross Country, Track & Field DEFENSE: 5 (Rodgers III, Taylor III, Woods, Thomas, Strong) OFFENSE: 7 (Martin, Ryan, Mauigoa, Watson, Lucas, Bell, Patmon) SPECIAL TEAMS: 2 (Mazza, Draguicevich III) 2019 SCHEDULE TABLE OF CONTENTS DATE OPPONENT SITE TIME 3 QUICK FACTS Aug. 31 New Mexico State Pullman 7 p.m. (P12) 4-6 MARTIN STADIUM Sept. 7 Northern Colorado Pullman 2 p.m. (P12) 6-23 COACHING STAFF/SUPPORT STAFF Sept. 13 Houston Houston, Texas 6:15 p.m. (ESPN) Sept. 21 UCLA * Pullman TBA 25-60 PLAYER PROFILES Sept. 28 Utah * Salt Lake City, Utah TBA 61-76 2017 SEASON REVIEW Oct. 12 Arizona State * Tempe, Ariz. TBA 77-88 YEAR-BY-YEAR RESULTS / ALL-TIME RECORDS AGAINST Oct. 19 Colorado* Pullman TBA 89-97 BOWL HISTORY Oct. 26 Oregon* Eugene, Ore. TBA 99-122 RECORD BOOK Nov. 9 California* Pullman TBA Nov. 16 Stanford* Pullman TBA 123-128 AWARDS Nov. 23 Oregon State * Pullman TBA 129-132 NFL DRAFT PICKS Nov. 29 Washington * Pullman 1 p.m. (FOX or FS1) 133-146 ALL-TIME LETTERWINNERS 147-153 ADMINISTRATION / MEDIA INFORMATION * Pac-12 Conference Game Home Games in Bold All Times Pacific 3 2019 WASHINGTON STATE MARTIN STADIUM HISTORY NAME: Clarence D. Martin Stadium CAPACITY: 32,952 HISTORY 1892—Built as Soldier Field. FieldTurf1895 (November 9)—WSU defeated Idaho 10-4 in the first football game on Soldier Field. 1902—The field was renamed atRogers WSU Field in honor of the Governor of the State of Washington, John R. Rogers. 1936—Washington State College built a completely new football stadium, but retained the same name; the new stadium was an all-wood structure built on concrete pilings. The field also featured new stands, an enlarged press box and an electronic scoreboard. 1970 (April)—Fire destroyed the south stands; a one-million dollar fund drive began after the decision was made to rebuild the stands rather than relocate or build an entirely new stadium; Dan Martin, a Los Angeles businessman, gave $250,000 to the project with the stipulation the stadium be renamed after his father, Clarence D. Martin. Clarence Martin was Governor of the State from 1933-40. 1972 (summer)—first artificial turf (Astroturf) was installed. 1972 (Sept. 30)—WSU met Utah in the first game played in refurbished Martin Stadium; 1975—New north (student) stands were built. 1978 (fall)—Work began on the academic portion of the complex on the south side with the computer center relocating to the complex upon completion of the project in 1979. 1979 (January)—Another renovation of the stadium began to increase the seating capacity from 27,600 to 40,000; the floor of the stadium was excavated 16 feet to add 12,400 seats; the track was removed from the stadium and relocated to the Bailey Base- ball Stadium area directly north of the football complex, while a new baseball stadium was then built just south and east of Friel Court, home of Cougar basketball; the entire project, like the one in 1970, was funded through contributions; gift-in-kind and the purchase of “stadium builder’’ seat options; it marked the first time a collegiate football stadium had been enlarged by digging down rather than building up; the project was also funded in part by the Martin family, with Charlotte Martin, widow of Dan Martin, giving $250,000 to the project; a SuperTurf artificial surface was installed. 1979 (October 13)—WSU celebrated Homecoming by defeating UCLA 17-13 before a record crowd of 32,651 in the first game played in the enlarged Martin Stadium. 1990 (summer)—Installed the sand-filled Omni-Turf playing surface. 2000 (summer)—Installed FieldTurf in Martin Stadium and on Rogers Field. 2006 —Current stadium renovation began. 2006 (summer)—Replaced FieldTurf in Martin Stadium. 2008 —Phase I and II completed. 2012 (summer) —The $80 million Cougar Football Project, which began in Nov., 2011, replaces the old press box on the south stands with a new structure that includes a new press box, club seats, loge boxes, luxury suites and a club room. 2013 (summer) —A $3.5 million scoreboard is added to the east end of Martin Stadium. 2014 (summer) — Construction began on the $61 million, 84,000-square-foot Cougar Football Complex in winter, 2013 and com- pleted in summer, 2014. The facility provides a home for the Cougar football program, including new weight room, lockers, equipment and training rooms for players, in addition to position meeting rooms and coaches’ offices. It also features a WSU Football heritage area and a game-day home for Gray W former letter winners. 4 MARTIN STADIUM attendance 40,306 11-15-97 WSU 38, Stanford 28 40,000 10-17-81 WSU 17, UCLA 17 40,000 11-20-82 WSU 24, UW 20 40,000 11-17-84 UW 38, WSU 29 40,000 11-22-86 UW 44, WSU 23 40,000 11-19-88 WSU 32, UW 31 38,434 9-30-89 USC 18, WSU 17 37,600 11-23-96 UW 31, WSU 24 (OT) Martin Stadium, home of Cougar Football, and the adjacent 37,600 11-17-90 UW 55, WSU 10 37,600 11-21-92 WSU 42, UW 23 Rogers Field, WSU’s practice facility, both received updated FieldTurf this 37,600 10-8-94 WSU 21, Oregon 7 past summer. During the summer of 2014, FieldTurf installed its latest product 37,600 10-15-94 Arizona 10, WSU 7 37,600 11-19-94 WSU 23, UW 6 in both facilities, putting down FieldTurf Revolution Fiber, the same surface 37,600 11-9-02 WSU 32, Oregon 21 37,600 11-23-02 UW 29, WSU 26 (3OT) used by the Seattle Seahawks at CenturyLink Field, the New England Patriots, 37,444 11-2-02 WSU 44, ASU 22 Ohio State and Notre Dame. The surfaces of both facilities feature the iconic 37,251 11-21-98 UW 16, WSU 9 37,196 10-10-98 Oregon 51, WSU 29 Cougar logo at midfield along with crimson end zones. In 2000 WSU became 36,861 10-5-02 WSU 30, USC 27 (OT) just the second NCAA Division I team to install the latest innovation in 36,770 9-19-98 WSU 24, Idaho 16 36,686 11-5-94 USC 23, WSU 10 artificial playing surfaces. 36,090 10-21-89 Arizona 23, WSU 21 35,759 10-18-97 WSU 63, California 37 35,283 10-6-01 WSU 34, OSU 27 5 2019 WASHINGTON STATE COUGAR FOOTBALL COMPLEX • 84,000-square feet • 11,153 square-foot football-only weight room • State-of-the-art locker room and players lounge • Training and equipment rooms • Team meeting auditorium, position meeting rooms • Cougar Football Hall of Fame and Heritage Area and coaches suites • Gameday home for Gray W letterwinners 6 COUGAR FOOTBALL COMPLEX COACHING STAFF 7 2019 WASHINGTON STATE HEAD COACH MIKE LEACH HEAD COACHING