Washington State Cougars coach Mike Leach took the podium yesterday at Pac-12 media day and fielded questions from reporters for about 25 minutes on the typically wide range of topics — after all, many of these reporters are gathering information they plan to use later in the season when the Cougs face off against the team they cover, or for feature stories they’re planning, etc.
One thing lacking from the day’s proceedings? The usual amount of whimsy that reporters seem to covet whenever Leach gets behind a microphone in a non-postgame setting. That’s likely due to the death of Tyler Hilinski, which hovered over the day’s proceedings — we covered all that here.