PULLMAN – As Washington State angles toward fall camp, beginning on Wednesday morning and ushering in the Jimmy Rogers era, the new head coach finds himself empathizing with one veteran wide receiver.
Josh Meredith, a San Diego native, is headed into his fifth season of college football. He’s meeting his third new coaching staff, all at WSU. He established something resembling a consistent role last season, averaging a few catches per game, but he has yet to break out. More often during the past four years , he’s found himself several rungs down the pecking order at wideout.
“To hear it one more time, a different regime talk about what they think is important, after a while, I think that gets hard for a player,” Rogers said on a Zoom news conference Tuesday afternoon, “especially when it’s your senior year. (Meredith) stayed here for a reason, and we’re trying to deliver our best to him to make sure that it was worth it.”
Rogers took care to point out that Meredith looks noticeably faster than he did in the spring – “and I think he feels faster,” Rogers added – but the truth is Meredith will have to earn his playing time. The same goes for players at nearly every position group, underscoring the importance for Rogers and the rest of the Cougars’ coaching staff to integrate 74 newcomers over the next two weeks, all in preparation for WSU’s season-opener at home against FCS Idaho on Aug. 30.
WSU’s first three days of fall camp will be split into two-a-days, with one practice set for 9 a.m. and the next for 2:20 p.m. After that, the Cougs will practice at 10 a.m. Monday through Friday, with the exception of Aug. 13, which will feature an earlier practice to make room for media day interviews and photographs in the afternoon.
Thanks to NCAA rules, WSU will conduct…
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