Baldwin says the 'red' still remains a place to reckon with

The joke, as Eastern Washington University head football coach Beau Baldwin likes to tell it, goes like this:

“It’s interesting, the pessimists in Missoula and Bozeman in 2010 tried to convince me, ‘Coach, by 2016 you’re going to have a pink field,” when Eastern was in the process of installing that wild red rug at what is now Roos Field.

As he addressed the annual gathering of the West Plains Chamber of Commerce at its Aug. 17 breakfast on the red turf Baldwin delivered his state of the Eagles message to business and community leaders, reiterating the red is still holding strong in more ways...