Terrible photo quality, but this is a picture I took of Mike Leach during recruiting season in the Atlanta airport, presumably on his way down to Florida to sign the three guys he got out of our state all the way from the other side of the county. Washington State has nothing to offer a recruit from Florida, it's barely a DI school and even Dennis Erickson and Jackie Sherrill couldn't do much there. Yet he's able to get three players to go to the other side of the country and play in a high school stadium, practice in the rain, and go to a campus with a bunch of water-logged granola eaters. Kind of makes you wish our current staff would get off their asses, stop fkking hammerheads, and start hustling.
I get your point Pasty, but in Pullman, WA (home of WSU), it snows more than it rains. They're on the eastern side of the state (10 miles from Idaho) which is much dryer than the western side of the state (hotter in the summer and colder in the winter - yuck). So I think it's actually worse than the picture you paint.
Pullman, WA, gets 21 inches of rain per year. The US average is 37. Snowfall is
29 inches. The average US city gets 25 inches of snow per year. The number of days with any measurable precipitation is 114.
People might also find the next stat interesting as it shows Seattle has less than average precipitation:
Seattle, Washington, gets
36 inches of rain per year. The US average is 37. Snowfall is
11 inches. The average US city gets
25 inches of snow per year. The number of days with any measurable precipitation is 155.
All that said, I love Mike Leach - he's entertaining as **** (but WSU can keep him). I don't think I'd love him as our coach.