Former SPU coach Ryan Looney at Idaho State is 3-11 in conference and 6-17 overall -- dead last. I've long lamented on this board and the football board about the worst job in all of D-1, that being in Pocatello. Growing up in a Big Sky town, I've watched that conference. It's not a good D-1 league, some great players now and then, Damian Lilliard, for example. But overall it's usually a 29-30 RPI/14 to 16 seed in the Big Dance. WOU had a great coach in the 80's in my era, who won huge, 25 wins a year on average. He left for Idaho State -- I cringed, even back then. He took ISU to the Big Dance -- their last appearance in the tourney -- and they fired him 2 years later. CWU had a great football coach, one of the guys whose name begins with Z -- I think there's a Zinisek and a Zamerlin, one of those dudes. They fired him after a couple down years. That place sucks.
Looney had one of the top D2 programs in the country at SPU. Despite bad crowds and traveling by bus, I'd rather coach at SPU in Seattle than the sink hole of Pocatello and the death trap of Idaho State sports.
Looney had one of the top D2 programs in the country at SPU. Despite bad crowds and traveling by bus, I'd rather coach at SPU in Seattle than the sink hole of Pocatello and the death trap of Idaho State sports.
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