THE FRONT ROW with MARK NELKE: Eastern looks to get back upright in football

“I think I speak for coach (Mike) Kramer and coach (Paul) Wulff and coach (Beau) Baldwin (previous EWU coaches), Eastern’s known, it’s a national brand," Best said. “Doing the two-year evaluation, and saying, 'Well, they’re not what they once were,’ I readily admit, we aren’t. We missed the playoffs the last two years, and playoffs were kinda the standard."