The job of the CFB coach is to get his school to its proper level of performance- what it should achieve given the Iron Laws: Location, Tradition, Money.
Winning season and a bowl game every year. Check for the Ducks.
Competing for the league championship most years. Check.
Competing for a national championship once or twice per decade every three years. Check.
Your so-called "iron laws" are fucktarded.
So with the right coach, Oregon State or WSU can become a consistent top tier program?
Money.
AD COMPETENCE.
COACHING COMPETENCE, &
FACILITIES.
We have all four, you have two. Stanford has all four and UCLA has two. OSU has .75 in coaching and that's it. Wazzu is stuck on one with Moos.
Been to Stillwater, OK? If T. B. Pickens transformed that shithole into a Fiesta Bowl winning program, with cash, hookers and blow, then all Wazzu needs is a Daddy Warbucks. Location and tradition count for squat in the face of truckloads of competently spent cash and world class facilities. Mix in actually good coaching and stand back.
UW will go nowhere near "elite" while missing badly in the competence categories. That you can't see that Woodward and Sark are basically the left tit and right tit of the feminization of your football program, there's no helping you.