[fullmetal]

Cracaft is a good receiver but that is a position of depth for WSU: Marks (obviously their best receiver), Tavares Martin (61-708, 7 TD) and Jamal Morrow (44-468, 5 TD).

That's like saying that having Holder and Meeks out shouldn't have mattered for Stanford because DB is a position of depth for Stanford...Cracraft was arguably WSU's best receiver for at least four of their games. 

Is it true that a long layoff and lots of prep time enables defenses to better shut down passing games than running games?

Anyway, WSU appears to have been a little bit of a paper tiger anyway--losing to EWU and BSU raised yellow flags.  WSU's best wins were over an injured Stanford and a Rosen-less UCLA.  The rest of their regular season schedule, minus CU and UW, was filled with bad teams.  Good for Minnesota, but I still think WSU with Cracraft lets Mike Leach stretch the field more.

[fullmetal]

Cracaft is a good receiver but that is a position of depth for WSU: Marks (obviously their best receiver), Tavares Martin (61-708, 7 TD) and Jamal Morrow (44-468, 5 TD).

That's like saying that having Holder and Meeks out shouldn't have mattered for Stanford because DB is a position of depth for Stanford...Cracraft was arguably WSU's best receiver for at least four of their games. 

Is it true that a long layoff and lots of prep time enables defenses to better shut down passing games than running games?

Anyway, WSU appears to have been a little bit of a paper tiger anyway--losing to EWU and BSU raised yellow flags.  WSU's best wins were over an injured Stanford and a Rosen-less UCLA.  The rest of their regular season schedule, minus CU and UW, was filled with bad teams.  Good for Minnesota, but I still think WSU with Cracraft lets Mike Leach stretch the field more.