This might be considered "old news" by now, but I didn't have much time to blog on it back when it considered breaking news.
I knew of Nick Rolovich back in the early 2000s when he was a QB for the UH football team. He later became the head coach (now known as Coach Rolo) back in 2016. He later left in early 2020 to get a bigger paycheck coaching for Washington State University.
I blogged about it at https://pablowegesend.blogspot.com/2020/01/uh-football-coaching-changes.html
A few months later, the world has changed. A new virus has spread and the world has temporarily shut down.
And yet, in one of the greatest scientific innovations in our time, some vaccines have been developed to help develop some immunity to covid-19.
But some people refused to take the vaccines, even though it has been proven over and over again that the unvaccinated are more likely to be hospitalized than the vaccinated. At one point, ICUs (intensive care units) have been overwhelmed by unvaccinated patients even months after the vaccines have been made available to the general public.
You would think that an employee at a university known for its medical research would look at all the data and conclude that getting vaccinated would be a great idea.
But who cares about the university's medical research when you're only there to coach football? Besides, Rolovich looks to so-called medical experts like Alex Jones, Dennis Prager, Candace Owens, and other quacks who get their medical "degree" from fake university PragerU!
I would've preferred the "vax or get tested" approach that Joe Biden was hoping to implement nationwide for all employers with 100+ employees. But the state of Washington was allowed to go with a stricter approach for all state employees to get vaccinated.
Rolovich applied for a religious exemption. Nevermind that ALL major religions encourage their followers to get vaccinated. I mean, they all want their followers to continue living.
learn more on religions and vaccinations at
“Immunizations and Religion,” Vanderbilt University Medical Center, https://www.vumc.org/health-wellness/news-resource-articles/immunizations-and-religion
The religious exemption that Rolovich applied for was denied. It was obviously phony. Rolovich claimed to be Roman Catholic, but the pope said that getting vaccinated is the most loving thing you can do for your fellow man.
Since Rolovich got fired for not conforming to the state employee's vaccine mandate, he is claiming religious discrimination. Nevermind that the school's athletic director Pat Chun, is also a Catholic! It takes a lot of nerve to accuse someone of the same religion of discriminating against you for being of the same religion.
Besides, when Rolovich was asked to talk with a medical expert at the university, he didn't mention his faith, he just asked about conspiracy theories related to Bill Gates.
learn more at
Nick Bromberg, “Immunologist: Now-Fired WSU Coach Nick Rolovich Asked Me If Bill Gates Was Involved in Covid-19 Vaccine,” Yahoo! Sports, October 27, 2021, https://sports.yahoo.com/immunologist-now-fired-wsu-coach-nick-rolovich-asked-me-if-bill-gates-was-involved-in-covid-19-vaccine-125222760.html.
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Some will claim that I am "hating" on Coach Rolo! Actually, I met him before when I was working as an election day precinct official. He seemed to be a very nice guy. He was even willing to help a woman with a disability find the best way to leave the school campus (this was at the UH Lab School) but she was able to leave on her own.
I also knew one of his assistant coaches, Craig Stutzmann who was also Rolovich's teammate and assistant at UH, as well as anti-vaxxer who was fired along with Coach Rolo. Stutzmann was in 2 of my classes when we were students at UH. He was a nice guy. Even off campus a few years later, he even helped me find a chair when I arrived at a bar late to watch a UH football game.
I was sad to see Rolovich and Stutzmann go when they left UH for Washington State.
But still, I wish they got vaccinated to set an example for the youth to take the coronavirus crisis seriously. Even if they did experience side effects, they were at a university known for medical research, they would've gotten the best care out there. Most likely, they would've just gotten fatigue for a few days (like me) and be back to take on the world afterwards.
But life goes on, and they made their choice.
