Washington State coach Mike Leach is an absolute character. It seems like every week he says something hilarious or so true that it garners chuckles from coast to coast.

Leach says it how it is. And after Saturday’s game against Utah, he said exactly what was on his mind. Washington State, by the way, lost 38-13.

Leach then talked about his players:

https://twitter.com/ab89/status/1178306831770439681?s=21

At one point, Leach called his players “fat, dumb, happy and entitled.” His overall point wasn’t that his players were fat and dumb. His overall point was that the Cougars have become a soft team. Over the offseason, much of the team is back, and yet, they have turned from a tough squad into a soft one.

Fair enough.

But calling his players out the way he did is something we typically don’t see from coaches. That’s what was intriguing here.

In the end of his statement, he ended up putting the blame on himself. He said, “Coaching-wise, we failed to get through to them (…) we’ve let them evolve into a soft team and they are soft.”

Again, his overall message is that his team is a soft one and he’s partially to blame. The word choice while conveying that message to the media was, well, interesting.