An Open Letter to Timm Rosensnatch:
How much longer are you going to try to relive your college days through Alex Brink? Was the win over Troy Aikman and a #1 UCLA team ON THE ROAD AND NATIONAL TV not enough? Was the win over the Huskies in front of 40,000 screaming Martin faithful not enough? Was the first bowl win in 1,000 years over Andre Ware and Houston in Hawaii not enough? Was the #1 pick in the supplemental draft not enough? Was playing in the NFL not enough?
What exactly is keeping you with this kid? Clearly after nearly two seasons, he can’t run like you. He can’t throw like you. He DOESN’T have the moxy you did. HE IS NOTHING LIKE YOU!!!
It seems to me that you led a WSU team in the first game of your senior year to a PASTING of Tennessee in your opener (and yes, that was AT Tennessee). Clearly, you showed RIGHT OFF THE BAT that you turned the corner for your junior year (oh yeah, you PASTED Minnesota on the road the next week as well)…
But, lets examine tonight (and lets be clear, this is a game that we should have been in): Brink leads the O for a whopping 139 yards and 7 points over nearly 4 quarters. Rogers leads us 100 yards in about 6 minutes of action. Rogers throws the ball over the middle and shows in AWESOME fashion that he can throw to the far side of the field. He hits Boyd in a way that all Cougar diehards have dreamed and PRAYED that Brink would. Brink, meanwhile, responds by having to JUMP to throw the ball over the middle on the subsequent possession. Meanwhile, out patterns to the long side of the field to Boyd and Jordan wind up both short, and in once case, run back the other way.
How many times did we see that last year?
Did that same inability cost us huge leads against OSU and UCLA? Did it rear its head in a BRUTAL loss to Stanford where they took away the deep ball and force us to throw over the middle? Did it show against USC when we had nearly 150 yards rushing in 1 quarter, but somehow couldn’t throw the ball?
How much longer are we going to suffer from the same results as a result of your ego?
Maybe you should go back to the office on Monday and check out the 97 Rose Bowl and the season that led up to it? Or, hell, maybe watch the dink and dunk exhibited in the BRILLIANT 03 Holiday Bowl win that YOU directed.
Its time to make a change, Rosey. You were BRILLIANT as a player and have shown yourself to be the play caller that we dreamed of during the Price years. Unfortunately, Brink ain’t you, Rosey. Never has been, never will be.
Its time to make a change. Your fans from yesteryear are COUNTING on you to explore alternatives before we lose EVERYTHING that this program gained during THREE STRAIGHT TOP 10 finishes! And no, the “we have no alternative” excuse is long gone after tonight. Your team, your almae mater, should have been in that game. What a shame that such an effort appears as a blow out because of your stubborness.
Hope that you grow up before the clock strikes midnight on the season and our program.
Sincerely,
BRINKHATER!!!!!!!!
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