Posted November 30, 2012 on washingtonstate.scout.com
PLAYERS: Mike Leach
TEAMS: Arizona Cardinals
A YEAR AGO today, Cougar Nation -- and much of the college football world, for that matter -- was abuzz with the news Mike Leach and his famed Air Raid were coming to Pullman. Expectations were not just high for this season, but sky high. So when assessing Coach Leach’s first year on the job, there’s no getting around where he began in the expectations game.
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