Catching up with coach Robb Akey ahead of his return to the Palouse
The choice was simple for Robb Akey. Step into a tough situation and make it as good as it could be for the over 100 young men in the Oregon State football program. When the Beavers fired their coach, Pullman native Trent Bray, after a 0-7 start to the season, OSU made Akey its interim head coach. The move marked the first time in 13 years — since he himself was fired midseason by the University of Idaho — that Akey would lead a college football team. Prior to his Idaho tenure from...