SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Washington State’s Mike Leach and Michigan State’s Mark Dantonio were a study of contrasts during the Holiday Bowl kickoff news conference Wednesday morning at the Manchester Grand Hyatt.
Dantonio, the elder statesman of the Big Ten, stuck to the stereotypical football coach script, talking all football, being appropriately respectful of his opponent, and saying nothing particularly colorful.
From start to finish Washington State football coach Mike Leach was his classic, Leachian self in Wednesday morning’s Holiday Bowl news conference.
Namely, Leach began with his usual non-opening statement (“Does anybody have any questions?