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Still waiting…ASU whiffs again on new football coach hire
The ASU search for a new head football coach is rolling across the Texas plains like a cyclone. Not just for the speed it’s moving, but the destruction it is leaving behind. It has been just 10 days since Arizona State fired its coach of five years, Dennis Erickson. But already the media has reported [...] -
The changing face of UA football under Rich Rod
And so it starts. A new era has begun for the Arizona Wildcat football program – and the ride into the future is off to a bumpy start. Newly-installed head coach, Rich Rodriguez, has added an offensive coordinator to his staff, bringing in Calvin Magee from the Pittsburgh program. But it looks like Magee will [...] -
MAACO Bowl gives ASU football a chance for redemption
According to his contract, Dennis Erickson should receive a $25,000 bonus for getting his team to a bowl game. Looks like he will collect, since Arizona State has been invited to play in the MAACO Bowl in Las Vegas three days before Christmas. But Erickson, who was fired just eight days ago but is expected [...] -
ASU no longer offering football job to Kevin Sumlin?
What do Arizona and Arizona State have in common when it comes to hiring a new football coach? Apparently, very little. Both schools fired their head football coaches this season, with Arizona pulling the trigger mid-way through the season and ASU waiting until the regular season concluded. When Mike Stoops was let go at Arizona, [...] -
It’s official: ASU football collapse costs Erickson his job
When Arizona State and Illinois met in the third game of the football season, who would have guessed that both head coaches would get their walking papers at the end of the season – with both announcements coming on the same day, yesterday (although no official release came from ASU until this morning)? Both coaches [...] -
Upsets highlight AZ high school football championships
There is little in life that is more unpredictable than high school sports. Saturday’s Arizona state football championship games illustrated that point perfectly. Sure, there were the expected outcomes… Chaparral High School won its third straight state title, beating Cienega High School in the Division II finale, 37-14… Saguaro High wrapped up its second consecutive [...] -
Cienega HS brings ‘Cinderella’ story to football title games
There will be some great high school football on display this weekend, as teams in the various divisions vie for state championships. But one game offers the best chance for a compelling storyline. Cienega High School will represent southern Arizona in a Saturday evening Division II game at Sun Devil Stadium. The Bobcats, from tiny [...] -
Rich Rod pops up again… as UA’s new football coach
It was inevitable that a college football program somewhere would be desperate enough to take a chance on hiring Rich Rodriguez. That somewhere appears to be Tucson. Greg Byrne, the University of Arizona athletic director, has scheduled a noon press conference to announce that the former West Virginia and Michigan head coach will soon be [...] -
ASU football still has a pulse…but it’s very, very faint
As Lee Corso, the inimitable host of ESPN’s College Game Day every Saturday morning, would say when disputing one of his colleague’s predictions… “Not so fast, my friend.” Or to paraphrase a famous line from the humorist, Mark Twain… “The reports of ASU’s death have been greatly exaggerated.” The ASU football team is on life [...] -
ASU football needs to beat UA to keep bowl hopes alive
On the surface, it looks like tomorrow’s Arizona State vs. Arizona football match-up is little more than a game between two teams just trying to get through the remainder of a season gone wrong. Both teams have lost three of their last four games. The head coach for one of the teams (Arizona) has already [...]
