Mike Leach
Mike Leach
Michael Charles "Mike" Leachis an American college football coach. He is the head coach of the Washington State Cougars football team. Previously, he was head coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, leading the Red Raiders to winning seasons in every year of his tenure...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth9 March 1961
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They challenged us. They said, 'Here, try to run past us, try to run inside us.' And they were better at preventing that than we were throwing and catching it.
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Definitely, this is a great set of reinforcements and we're excited to get them up here and get them to work.
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I think they realize I've done a good job for them, and they wanted to reward me and make sure I'm here for a few years. It's not a lottery deal, but I'm happy with it.
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I thought he was steady, ... There's always a level of jitters that goes on with a guy that's starting his first game. He hid it well. I'm sure he had some.
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There was Lance Funderburk, ... He's got big hands like Lance. He does have these mitts. The Hodges have big hands and feet.
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I thought he was pretty good. We contained him for a period of time but he is very explosive and can go off at any given moment. He is a great player and he commands as much attention as any player in the conference.
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I think they have a really good running back, and they have a few quarterbacks that both offer a variety of things. The quarterbacks have different skills that account for a wide variety of things. But then the running back is a really good player.
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Defensively, I think this is the most impressive group of guys able to respond to play after play. Overall, they did a great job making big plays and working well together.
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There's going to be times a guy's having a tough day or tough series or something like that, but you're not going to have the ability to develop through it unless you stick with it, ... There's times where you've got to make a change, but I don't think changing for the sake of changing is necessarily the (proper approach). You've invested a certain amount of time in developing a guy, in giving him reps, so I think generally the thing to do if he's having a bad day is to settle him down, not switch him out.
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It's the toughest position in our offense to play, ... You're called on to rush the ball, to catch the ball and to block and protect. That can be tough to sort out because he has to make reads on his own. He's given us the versatility to do all that.
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On that play, we had a return on, ... I thought (Douglas) did a tremendous job.
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I don't care about the negative attention, ... I did feel that some of our players played like the media view of how we're supposed to play when you're ahead. I don't happen to subscribe to that view, and I'll address it with them (today).
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We had a few mental lapses and errors that cost us in the fifth and sixth innings, but we were able to get the win. As you can tell, we hit the ball really well.
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We were sloppier on both sides of the ball but we played well for a period of time.