BERKELEY, Calif. – Complacency can be a winning team’s kiss of death, but it’s often also the trickiest malady to diagnose.
Even when a team says all the right things and does all the right things, when you’re 6-0 on the season, sometimes the mindset shifts, and you start to believe that you’re a good team.
At least, that’s what Washington State coach Mike Leach hinted had happened in the eighth-ranked Cougars’ humiliating 37-3 defeat to Cal on Friday night.
The Cougars did not overlook Cal to the extent which they overlooked Eastern Washington to begin last season.