unimpressive.

That being said, speculation, it would make sense Arroyo would be a target to replace him, if they let him go.

Maybe I am mistaken but their AD did hire Arroyo at UNLV? Maybe he hated working for her, hopefully.

The finalists are:

Oregon QB Dillon Gabriel
Colorado CB/WR Travis Hunter
Boise State RB Ashton Jeanty
Miami QB Cam Ward

Let's keep everything in one thread here

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Fresh off a historic Big 12 championship, head coach Kenny Dillingham and his staff did not have much time to relish in that achievement as they quickly rolled back their sleeves, seeking additions from the transfer portal. Let's go ahead and take a look at what the needs are position by position, the effect of the player departures to date, and examine the overall approach to the transfer portal and what we can expect in terms of the strategy the Sun Devils will employ.

Now this is a huge blow for the Sun Devils (assuming he does not return to the team)


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This per USA Today college sports articles written by Shayne Kubas yesterday and today...(he started from worst to first)

Best Offenses 1) Oregon..2) Ohio St..3) Notre Dame..4) Penn St..5) Tenn..6) Indiana..7) Boise St..8) Texas..9) SMU..10) Clemson..11) Georgia...12) ASU

Best Defenses 1) Ohio St..2) Texas..3) Penn St..4) Tenn..5) Notre Dame..6) Georgia..7) Indiana..8) Oregon..9) SMU..10) Clemson..11) ASU..12) Boise St

Why Devils are ranked so low in both categories...high-end talent or lack thereof at most positions...that said, we are still a "force to be reckoned with" especially on offense...

Well we were picked last in the Big-12 and look at what happened...

Overall, I like where both Clemson and Texas are rated...

I'm just pleased that our first game is not at Ohio St, Penn St or Notre Dame...

Fingers crossed that we can prove everybody outside of our Sun Devil orbit wrong...

Go Devils!!!

That would be AU football coach Brent Brennan according to virtually all of the sentiment anyone can see or feel down here in So Arizona...

Not only has he now lost just about every key player on the roster but fans opinion pieces are being published in the Daily Star and not as letters to the editor, either...

A long time season ticket holder had an opinion piece in today's newspaper asking this question "How do we make Wildcat football matter?"

This is one of the things that he points out in the article "I find myself longing jealously for the environment Kenny Dillingham has created at the School Up North."

His main point is that you have to get the right coach in place since a coach gets paid big bucks no matter if they win or not and have buy-outs in the millions of dollars that protect them from maybe losing a job, even when it becomes clear that they aren't up to the immediate task at hand like building a winning program...

This fan had a positive feeling with Jedd Fisch even when he only won one game his first year on the job because he was building a winning culture just like Dilly is doing at ASU now based on his above noted statement...

He feels that the prior administration at AU acted hastily when they hired Brennan and hopes that the new administration will get it right in the future....

I've never seen anything like this down here before which makes me more thankful than ever to have both our administration and coaching staff led by Dilly finally doing things right up in Tempe...

Chum is in the Big-12 water and the sharks are circling Brennan that make him a "dead man" treading water after only one year...

Anybody here got a spare life preserver to throw him..??

I didn't think so...Go Devils!!!

Fire away with any important updates you come across, obviously including but not necessarily limited to ones that involve ASU.

Starting off with a couple former Sun Devils who are back on the transfer market:

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I enjoy following ASU Mens/Womens golf teams, so will try to post updates a couple of times per month moving forward

It is hard finding updated info on the team rankings, but the one poll I am able to find that has current rankings has Men listed @ #7 currently.......most of the events were in the fall, which is more or less considered like FB or Basketball "non conference" games...the spring is pretty much considered regular season, so moving forward with the spring events there will be much more updated rankings that are more realistic
* https://scoreboard.clippd.com/ranki...Type=Team&gender=Men&division=NCAA+Division+I

The men have a Freshman - Wenyi Ding - who joined the team in DEC I believe, and just won an event in Hawaii with a NCAA Mens record 189 score over 3 rounds.......he broke the ncaa record of 192 score over 3 rounds in his 2nd event with ASU, and DEvils finished #2 to N Carolina who won the 2023 NCAA's and are pretty much the team to beat for 2024.....here is brief story
https://thesundevils.com/story.aspx...-needed-for-this-headline&file_date=2/10/2024

Next big Mens event is Feb 25-27 @ Vegas

Will get to the Womens 2024 spring updates tomorrow........but since we are ranked in top 10 after finishing #2 in 2023 should be fun to follow this spring

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Yes, the same Peat family has produced multiple D-I players, and one of their youngest, Keona Peat, is a current ASU offensive lineman.

Plans to visit Arkansas, Duke, Baylor, and Arizona, with a likely decision coming by the November signing period. One hell of a field to contend with, but there has been a lot of good mojo surrounding the program, so maybe Haurley will pull another rabbit out of his hat, and this one being a legit local blue chipper will move the needle in a major way.

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-Gus Malzahn leaves UCF to become Florida State’s OC

-Neal Brown out at WVU

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True, the 2024 season is still ongoing. Some may call this ASU team the best one we've seen this century, and some are drawing comparisons to the great 1996 squad. My guest on today's episode, The Voice of the Sun Devils, Tim Healey, has been covering Arizona State for nearly four decades and is more than qualified to put this season into perspective and proper context.

In our discussion, Healey talks about the most enjoyable moments he has experienced this year in the radio booth, takes us behind the curtain when traveling with the team and interviewing head coach Kenny Dillingham, and discusses what he has seen from ASU basketball and their torrid 8-1 start.

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Oh Oh, J Healey's Rangers making another run for the AL West/W Series! Resigned N Eovaldi for 3 yrs, and then traded for Jake Burger, who is NO Cheeseburger in paradise but a good power hitter none the less!

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/42905358/rangers-acquire-jake-burger-trade-marlins

in the meantime all is quiet with the AL West Champs in H-Town

Dbacks looking like they could lose both Christian Walker, Joc Pederson unless they can anti up more NIL for them!

I heard it came back at $3,200+ per person. Is that correct?

Wow. Just wow.

This is like '80s ASU. Probably not the brand of today but it's what a lot of people think it is.
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Mornin Mates...

Today's Topic = Unfathomable

I'm still processing what happened with our Sun Devils this football season...

And, I'm not exactly sure how to measure it in any rational way although we are Big-12 champs...

Now we get to find out where we go next as the behind the scenes political wrangling is taking place at a fevered pitch regarding the playoffs...

I hope and trust that our commissioner - Brett Yormark - has enough juice to get it done for our Sun Devils today so that we end up with a first round bye...

We think we should be there but when is the last time we won a high stakes behind the scenes political match-up against almost any entity like the current selection committee...

Especially, given the back east of the Mississippi River bias that exists in this sort of political quicksand...

Boise St will say they only lost one game and that was against #1 ranked Oregon earlier in the season and never mind about not competing in a P-4 conference, so they don't have any P-4 wins like our Sun Devils, who have also beaten four ranked opponents while the Broncos have only beaten one, twice in UNLV...

Clemson will also come up with a bunch of arguments as to why they should receive a first round bye, as well...

Fox college football analyst - Joel Klatt - has us in with his Top 4 being 1) Oregon 2) Georgia 3) Boise St and 4) ASU

But, enough about all of that...

Yesterday, the Sun Devils came, saw and conquered the Iowa State Cyclones to win the Big-12 championship in overwhelming fashion 45-19...

It doesn't get much better than that, does it..??

I've seen a lot of great Sun Devil running backs since the late 60s but I'm sure I've never seen one like Cam Skattebo...

I've seen many great Sun Devil teams over the years, a couple of which went to the Rose Bowl, but this team is right up there with being special...

Where this all ends I have no idea but the journey has been magnificent...

My hat is off to Dilly and his staff and to our championship team that went from being picked last in the Big-12 to champs yesterday...

Again, it doesn't get any better than this, does it..??

Congrats Sun Devils and thank you for the great ride that my poor brain still hasn't fully processed yet...

G'day Mates and Go Devils!!!

In the summer of 1967, I was a 2nd Lt in the USAF. I was traveling by car from my base in South Dakota to a training assignment in Virginia. I stopped on the Pennsylvania Turnpike around Wheeling, West Virginia. As I was pumping gas, several people came over to my car when they saw my ASU decal. “Frank Kush lived over that mountain,” one of the people said as he pointed to the left. I stayed at the station for 15 minutes talking ASU football with strangers. I had a smile on my face when I continued on the trip. GO DEVILS!

will know soon on if he is returning or not.........no disrespect to the DC who will take over when he does retire, but for me the sooner Kyle retires the better for us

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