The Huskies’ coaching staff is notoriously close-lipped. From week to week, fans are lucky if they get an update on injury recovery, let alone any juicy trash talk about upcoming opponents. That’s why it was so noteworthy when Jimmy Lake belittled Mike Leach after last year’s Apple Cup win. Lake said, “They do the same thing year in and year out […] so it makes it really easy to game-plan […] They can only do one thing – that handcuffs you a little bit. It was definitely to our advantage, and we took advantage of it.”
The candor of Lake’s comments was surprising, but the content was not.