Canzano: Washington State needs to do some financial soul searching
Jake Dickert had his reasons for leaving, sources say.
Washington State Athletic Director Anne McCoy was surprised by Jake Dickert’s decision to leave for Wake Forest. McCoy said Dickert first mentioned the job opportunity when the football coach called at 7:45 a.m. on Wednesday to inform her that he was leaving.
Dickert wasn’t interested in a counteroffer.
Sources tell me McCoy and Dickert discussed a new contract midseason. Washington State offered to extend Dickert’s contract to six years and include a rollover clause that would add one more season every year his team qualified for a bowl game.
Said one source: “He had the security if he wanted it.”
But what price?
There were looming issues in play behind the scenes in Pullman. Ones that Dickert has been reluctant to publicly talk about. But they help frame his decision to leave WSU for what appears to be a marginal job, at best, in the ACC.
Among the factors: