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    Ex-Texas Tech QB star joins Cougars’ staff

    Adam LewisBy Adam LewisFebruary 13, 20151 Comment2 Mins Read
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    New Washington State outside receivers coach Graham Harrell mastered the Air Raid offense while playing QB under Mike Leach at Texas Tech. /  Texas Tech athletics

    Graham Harrell, one of the best college quarterbacks Mike Leach mentored, was named Washington State’s new outside receivers coach Thursday after spending the past season as the Cougars’ offensive analyst.

    Harrell replaces recently departed Dennis Simmons, who took a coaching job at Oklahoma.

    Following a redshirt year, Harrell played four seasons at Texas Tech (2005-08) and threw for 15,793 yards, 134 touchdowns and 34 interceptions while completing 69.8 percent of his passes in Leach’s Air Raid offense.

    As a senior in 2008, Harrell was a first-team All-America and AT&T’s All-America Player of the Year after leading FBS with 5,111 passing yards. He spent 2009 with the Canadian Football League’s Saskatchewan Roughriders, then three seasons with the Green Bay Packers (2010-12), earning a Super Bowl ring in 2010, before joining Leach’s staff in the spring of 2014 to break down film, make player evaluations and assist with game planning.

    “Graham Harrell is a tremendous young coach and uniquely qualified to fill the role of outside receivers coach at Washington State,” Leach said in a WSU release. “He has command of the offense from all aspects, is a great teacher and evaluator of talent, and will be a great addition to our staff.”

    Harrell, 29, is an Ennis, TX., native. He joins defensive coordinator Alex Grinch, outside linebackers coach Roy Manning — previously at Michigan — and special teams coordinator Eric Mele on Leach’s restructured assistant coaching staff after the Cougars struggled to a 3-9 finish last season.

    Mele was already the interim special teams coordinator following the midseason firing of Eric Russell, while Grinch takes over for former defensive coordinator Mike Breske, who was fired almost immediately after WSU lost to Washington in the 2014 Apple Cup.

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    1 Comment

    1. Big on February 15, 2015 2:21 pm

      Coach Leach has brought some fine assistant coaches into the football program. I like the experienced youth. Go Cougs

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