Monday Cooldown — Celebrating ‘special moments’ and the ‘next man up’ in a losing season | Sports
At the end of Saturday’s post-game press conference for Nate Dreiling, the interim head coach was asked a question about a small part of Utah State’s 49-28 loss to Washington State. It was a loss that ended the Aggies’ hopes at a bowl game and pushes them into the wrong end of recent history as the 2024 USU football team will be one of just three squads to not finish with at least six wins. But with one question, Dreiling got to smile as he spoke about the final snap for the team on offense. It didn’t change the game. It certainly didn’t change the season. It didn’t even impact whether the Aggies covered the spread. What it did change was the demeanor of a few players and coaches. That play was the first career carry of running back Derrick Jameson. Jameson hadn’t sunk his cleats into a football field during a game since his high school days, surely a tough adjustment for a guy who was a finalist for Mr. Football in Minnesota his senior season. In two years at Iowa Central Community College, he didn’t log any appearances, and through 10 weeks at Utah State, Jameson didn’t record any
