Coug excuses

TierbsHsotBoobs said:

Joe Stephanson said:

Hey guys. Rain in Pullman is rare. Way worse than snow. Combine that with the senior laden PSU Vikes and u can't blame Leach and the kids for losing a hard fought battle. Leach has them on the right track.

We caught a break with the weather. No question.

TommySQC said:

TommySQC said:

Leach said, “Portland State deserves a lot of credit. They’ve got a bunch of seniors. Those guys hung together when they faced adversity. They just waited it out and worked their way through it, and we never really did that. We got impatient, tried to make too much happen.”

Wicks and wide receiver Gabe Marks said some Cougars let the rainy weather distract them.
“Guys started to worry about what the conditions were more than the game,” Marks said.
Wicks agreed, saying, “It seemed like everybody was bothered by the weather instead of just playing the game.”
Quarterback Peyton Bender said, “I’d be lying to you if I said weather didn’t play a factor. Guys were dropping balls probably because it was wet.”

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Re: I wonder what pregame locker room atmosphere is like
5:34 PM
That was a horrible turnout by Coug fans. What with the fires and the confusion relating to the fires and the forecast for rain I expected a crowd of +- 20,000. I'll bet there weren't 10,000 people on hand for this stinker. Message to Coug players from Coug fans = "we don't give a damn whether you win or lose"

Q: There weren't players concerned with the weather, playing time, etc.?
ML: No, we didn't have any of that. It was more, to me I felt it was over-trying early on, expecting to go out there and score two touchdowns each play and then, when that didn't happen, frustration. I didn't see any whining. And then, I saw guys if they made a mistake they'd play real tight, over-analytical. It was all hyper-effort stuff instead of flat, dismissive stuff. There was more wanting to make too much happen, rather than withdrawing.

None of the whining stuff, if I get any of those whiny guys, I'm just going to cut them, you know? Cut some last year, should have cut more than I did, er, should have cut them sooner. But we don't have any of that. Haven't seen any of it, either.

Q: Does Rutgers look similar to last year?
ML: Yeah, very similar. I mean, last week's game is hard to say, last week's game's a little hard to say. But yeah, very similar. Same looks, same stuff, same idea and they've had success with it so they'll stick with it.

I mean, this stuff's fun to write about but people don't, you know, I certainly get the impression that there are people out there in journalist-land – and I know this, for a fact, because I was a journalist for two years if you think about it, even though I had to be tutored by experts, Jack Arute and Roger Twyble. There's a lot of them in your industry that think this an episode of the Road Runner, and so it's all Wile E. Coyote going back there inventing something to see if it will drop on the road runner and mash him, you know. There's maybe a play or two of that, as in one or two plays each week, but it's a game of execution and we didn't execute well. Guys (were) trying to over-execute and worry about the other guy's job. It's a game of execution so I don't think they're going to reinvent something and say, get a bunch of, they're not going to go draw on the drawing board and break out a bunch of boxes that say ACME on it with a bunch of equipment and try to build a catapult and all this stuff to ensnare us. They're going to say our stuff is pretty good and they're going to line up and do it he best they can and hope to do it better than we do and go from there.

GrundleStiltzkin said:

http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/sportslink/2015/sep/07/mike-leach-monday-press-conference/

Q: There weren't players concerned with the weather, playing time, etc.?
ML: No, we didn't have any of that. It was more, to me I felt it was over-trying early on, expecting to go out there and score two touchdowns each play and then, when that didn't happen, frustration. I didn't see any whining. And then, I saw guys if they made a mistake they'd play real tight, over-analytical. It was all hyper-effort stuff instead of flat, dismissive stuff. There was more wanting to make too much happen, rather than withdrawing.

None of the whining stuff, if I get any of those whiny guys, I'm just going to cut them, you know? Cut some last year, should have cut more than I did, er, should have cut them sooner. But we don't have any of that. Haven't seen any of it, either.

Q: Does Rutgers look similar to last year?
ML: Yeah, very similar. I mean, last week's game is hard to say, last week's game's a little hard to say. But yeah, very similar. Same looks, same stuff, same idea and they've had success with it so they'll stick with it.

I mean, this stuff's fun to write about but people don't, you know, I certainly get the impression that there are people out there in journalist-land – and I know this, for a fact, because I was a journalist for two years if you think about it, even though I had to be tutored by experts, Jack Arute and Roger Twyble. There's a lot of them in your industry that think this an episode of the Road Runner, and so it's all Wile E. Coyote going back there inventing something to see if it will drop on the road runner and mash him, you know. There's maybe a play or two of that, as in one or two plays each week, but it's a game of execution and we didn't execute well. Guys (were) trying to over-execute and worry about the other guy's job. It's a game of execution so I don't think they're going to reinvent something and say, get a bunch of, they're not going to go draw on the drawing board and break out a bunch of boxes that say ACME on it with a bunch of equipment and try to build a catapult and all this stuff to ensnare us. They're going to say our stuff is pretty good and they're going to line up and do it he best they can and hope to do it better than we do and go from there.

TierbsHsotBoobs said:

How the fuck did this guy win at Texas Tech?

TierbsHsotBoobs said:

How the fuck did this guy win at Texas Tech?