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WSU Cougars’ Mike Leach still annoyed about fallout from Signalgate against Arizona State

Mike Leach still won't comment on other teams because he doesn't want to be publicly reprimanded and fined.

Washington State coach Mike Leach was fined $10,000 and publicly reprimanded by the Pac-12 last week for alleging that Arizona State coach Todd Graham goes to elaborate means to steal opponents’ signals.

Leach hasn’t — and won’t — say anything, and did not respond when Graham called him “chicken-(expletive)” during the postgame handshake, but the move clearly still rankles him. After the Cougs’ 37-32 win over Arizona State on Saturday, he declined to answer questions about the Sun Devils’ strategy, saying only “I respectfully decline to answer on grounds I might be publicly reprimanded and fined.