December 9, 2025
By Jamey Vinnick, CougFan: Washington State president Elizabeth Cantwell joined KJR’s Ian Furness on Tuesday afternoon to talk about the Cougars’ search for a new head coach and briefly mentioned the qualities she wants that head coach to have.
“We need a builder who has that fire in the belly for what that means to be in a startup era program with this new conference,” Cantwell said. “Everybody’s got to be, at some level, able to manage talent, culture and strategy in this new era. But really having NIL and ‘portal fluency,’ I call it, that’s super important to us right now in this time when the portal has to be looked at not as an impediment, but as a strategic tool.
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