Mike Leach: Oregon's stadium is loud, but I've heard louder

Mike Leach respects the home-crowd advantage Oregon will have Saturday when the Ducks host his 11th-ranked Washington State team, but the Cougars coach doesn't fear it.

"Oklahoma is louder, (Texas) A&M is louder, Texas is on the bubble," Leach said Wednesday as he began rattling off all the football environments equally or more hostile than the one he'll lead the Cougars into this weekend.

"Nebraska is definitely louder. LSU is louder. I never went to Alabama. We beat Alabama, but it was at Kentucky. Depending whether or not you add the cowbells, Mississippi State is comparable. Georgia is louder, Florida is louder. Definitely that one end zone at South Carolina is louder. Tennessee is louder.

"And Little Rock, Arkansas ... that's the loudest place I've ever played. Entirely concrete structure. It's as if you had a football game in the neighbor's basement and all the kids were yelling louder than hell."

Leach, who's known for his brutal honesty, acknowledged Oregon's Autzen Stadium is the loudest venue in the Pac-12. The stadium seats nearly 60,000 fans for football games.

Washington State is looking to improve its record to 6-0 at the expense of the Ducks, and is coming off a win over USC last week in front of a Cougars crowd that was quite raucous in its own right.