Washington State coach Nick Rolovich, four assistants fired for cause over COVID-19 vaccine mandate

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/washington-state-coach-nick-rolovich-four-assistants-fired-for-cause-over-covid-19-vaccine-mandate/ ^ | 10/18/2021

[llevrok]

Washington State football coach Nick Rolovich has been fired for cause after refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine and being noncompliant with both state and university policies, the university announced Monday evening. Rolovich sought, and appears to have been denied, a religious exemption from those mandates, which required employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Oct. 18 if they wished to continue working.

Four Washington State assistant coaches have also been terminated: Ricky Logo (defensive tackles), John Richardson (assistant head coach, cornerbacks), Craig Stutzmann (co-offensive coordinator, quarterbacks) and Mark Weber (offensive line).

Defensive coordinator Jake Dickert will serve as the team's interim coach.

[llevrok]

Head coach was the highest paid civil servant at $3.8M/year salary. Came to WSU from Univ of Hawaii

[crusty old prospector]

Wow.

[dfwgator]

I wonder if their previous coach got vaxxed?

[mass55th]

There is no reason to fire anyone for a mandate/job qualifier, that wasn’t in place when they were originally hired.

[PilotDave]

The team has the power to reverse this...

[Not A Snowbird]

That should make my brother in law happy. He’s constantly complaining about the cost of the football program at WSU.

[FreedomPoster]

While I don’t know the specifics for certain, I expect and would bet money your brother is an economic moron. The football program almost certainly brings in more than it costs.

[Tell It Right]

Washington State is part of the Bama folklore. The fight song has the line “...remember the Rose Bowl we’re winning...” in reference to Bama’s first bowl game in 1926 against the Huskies. Affectionately referred to as “the game that changed the entire south”.

[HypatiaTaught]

How can anyone be fired for something that is NOT APPROVED by the FDA ? Comirnaty is the one that is approved, but still not in production. The other three, pfizer, J&J and Moderna are all still under EUA.

Also, how can something be approved that is in production?

Sick, sick world.

[dfwgator]

Affectionately referred to as “the game that changed the entire south”.

I thought that was the 1970 game against USC.

[tennmountainman]

The purge has begun.

[DennisR]

They do? How?

[Theoria]

[Qui is]

Agreed. Division 1 football is a huge money maker for universities.

A single prime time televised game can generate over $1 million dollars for a school. Most of the profits are rolled into w university’s general scholorship fund. Eggheads and non-athletes just don’t get it.

[proust]

Does BLM know about this?

[RainMan]

WSU is the Cougars. UW is the Huskies.

[Steve_Seattle]

Guess who are exempted from Inslee’s mandate? Home health-care workers, who are in contact with the elderly and infirm, the people most vulnerable to Covid! But coaches dealing with healthy young men are fired! That’s “science” in Jay Inslee’s world.

[Tell It Right]

That was the 2nd most important game in the south.

I was at the most recent Bama/USC game in 2016. If you want to call it a game. LOL

[shotgun]

WSU Coug’d it again. Fight on coach from a Huskie Fan

[Theoria]

BLM and antifa went on leave in January.