With Jimmy Lake now gone from U.W., following WSU’s dismissal of Nick Rolovich, both of Washington’s Division 1 public universities have sacked their 2nd-year football coaches.
Reportedly, physics faculty and postdocs at both institutions are applying for National Science Foundation grants to study this strange Pacman-like phenomenon that sucks in coaches, chews them up, and then ejects them into space.
A focus of this research will be whether Washington occupies a locale in space where spacetime is warped by hidden gravitational forces into a funnel-shaped declivity into which unwary new coaches are prone to slide, colloquially known in the physics labs as “the yellowjacket trap.”