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Pete Kaligis to coach Holiday Bowl as Jake Dickert leaves for Wake Forest

December 18, 2024

By CougCenter Staff: It had already been a rough week or so for the Washington State Cougars football team in the transfer portal and now, the man in charge of the program is doing it himself. The Wake Forest Demon Deacons confirmed this morning they’d hired Jake Dickert to be their new football coach, just a few days after Dave Clawson resigned there.

WSU Athletic Director Anne McCoy announced shortly after that Assistant Head Coach Pete Kaligis would step in and coach the Cougs in the Holiday Bowl against the Syracuse Orange.

Dickert departs Washington State having coached three full seasons and part of another following the firing of Nick Rolovich. He went 23-20 in that time with an 0-2 record in bowl games.

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