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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 [...] -
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 [...] -
ASU football loss to WSU could be start of Erickson’s exit
The gray, gloomy skies and cold, wet November weather that enveloped Martin Stadium at Washington State yesterday must have reminded the Arizona State football players of a scene from the end of the world. ASU head coach, Dennis Erickson, may have been thinking something more along the lines of end of the road. That’s what [...] -
NCAA rejects appeals; no post-season for ASU baseball
The Arizona State baseball team took its appeal to the NCAA into extra innings, but ran out of at-bats this week. Most of the penalties originally imposed against the program have been upheld. ASU appealed the post-season ban that had been imposed by the college sports governing body in December of 2010, one of several [...] -
ASU baseball takes another hit…this time in the courts
Just when it appeared it was safe to come out from cover following Arizona State’s battle with the NCAA over its baseball program, someone lobs another grenade. Michael Rooney, ASU’s former director of baseball operations, is suing the school; its vice president of athletics, Lisa Love; its senior associate athletic director, Don Bocchi, and the [...] -
ASU VP Love nails the true value of new Pac-12 TV deal
Lisa Love‘s comments to the media last week focused a laser beam on the real value of the new $3 billion contract the Pac-10 Conference just signed with ESPN and the Fox network. “We’re pleased that our television partners recognized the power of the conference,” said Arizona State’s Vice President for Athletics. “Much is to [...] -
Erickson reportedly will be ASU football coach in 2011
Lisa Love apparently has stepped up again to make a tough call for the Arizona State football program, deciding during this bye week to remove a huge question mark hanging over head coach, Dennis Erickson. Vince Marotta is reporting on Fanster.com that, during a guest spot on the Gambo & Ash Sports 620 radio program, [...] -
Tim Esmay finally gets keys to ASU’s baseball kingdom
What a surprise! Arizona State announced today it has removed the ‘interim’ tag from baseball coach Tim Esmay’s title. Actually, this has to be considered one of the easiest decisions that Vice President for University Athletics Lisa Love has had to make during her five years in Tempe. The only part of it that might [...] -
Pac-10 honors Sendek for ASU’s best hoops finish in 30 years
Score one for the over-achiever. Herb Sendek was just selected the Pac-10 basketball Coach of the Year. Score one for Lisa Love. She looks like a genius right now. Sendek, the ASU head coach hired away from North Carolina State four years ago to resurrect the basketball program, has just led the Sun Devils to [...]
