The end result was no different for the Washington State football team Saturday than it had been in its previous two games, but Cougars coach Mike Leach said it wasn’t from lack of effort that WSU lost 38-34 at No. 18 Arizona State.
“I thought we played hard and I thought we improved,” said Leach, who had questioned his team’s toughness after a 38-13 loss at Utah in its previous game.
Leach said he liked the working arrangement of the team’s interim defensive coordinators, Darcel McBath and Roc Bellantoni, who were promoted when coordinator Tracy Claeys resigned two weeks ago.