Today's game isn't the earliest home game ever, but it's right up there as Joe Healey illustrates

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The legendary @JediASU joins me as guest host this week as we preview the Utah game with Utes insider Patrick Kinahan, and we discuss some of the bigger issues surrounding this ASU team and 2016 season.
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Joe Healey takes a closer look at the opportunities and challenges ASU's next opponent will present

The Nov. 19 ASU game at Washington will kick at 4:30 p.m. PT (5:30 in AZ) and will air on FOX.

Hey all, I bought a 3-pak mini season package this year and I cannot make the game this Thursday nite. I live in Orange County. I would love to pass these along to a great Sun Devil fan who can't afford to make the games. Send me a DM and I will try to will call these tickets, lower level, on the North west corner. Oh yea, and you gotta yell like crazy.

Go Devils !!

This is the good link

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Here's a story I wrote on ASU WR Fred Gammage before Senior Day:

http://www.campusrush.com/arizona-state-sun-devils-frederick-gammage-walk-on-2085186516.html

I live in Costa Rica. I just found that ASU has a commitment from Paul Chaplet to play golf. He plays golf at the Valle del Sol Golf Course where I play. I have played a couple of rounds with him. He hits his 3 iron farther than my drives. He won the Central American Tournament that qualified him for last year's Masters. Tall and thin but hits the crap out of the ball. He will be a good addition to ASU golf team.

As we head into the final month of the season, if you were preparing an evaluation of our head coach, what would be his strengths and weaknesses in your opinion...

Here are some possible categories to evaluate:

Leadership

Delegation of Responsibility

Quality of Hires

Organizational Skills

Recruiting

Program Values

Player Development

Wins-Losses

Public Relations Skills

Problem Solving

Crisis Management

Academic Team Achievement

There are numerous potential categories so include any you want...

Go Devils and Beat the Utes!!!

arizonasports has a story up about Tyrann Mathue following the footsteps of Patrick Peterson by donating $1 million to LSU. I'm not one to ever begrudge how an individual spends his/her money so please don't take this post as such. Does ASU have similar donations? If not, what does a school such as LSU do to ebdear itself to former athletes that ASU does not?

The season is what it is. Lets play the what if game....

Good story here by Justin Toscano with the senior linebacker who has certainly put his stamp on this ASU program.

Eric Smith's analysis of a stingy Utah unit and the challenges it can present ASU

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For anyone that was holding out hope RR says JJ Taylor is definitely out for the season and he doesn’t see Nick Wilson returning this year

ATTIRE: Helmets and Pads

LOCATION: Kajikawa Practice Fields

MEDIA AVAILABILITY: About 20 minutes

EN VERDE (no contact): No one was in green today. DB James Johnson (green yesterday) was out of green.

TOWELS AND SUNSCREEN (muscle beach): The beaches were packed once again.
OL Sam Jones, LB Christian Sam, WR Cam Smith, LB Salamo Fiso (brace on left knee), OL Stephon McCray (no walking boot, but didn't participate during media viewing session), CB Kareem Orr (late addition to muscle beach as he joined the crew just as the media viewing session ended)

Other personnel notes: LB Carlos Mendoza had his hand taped once again. OL Zach Robertson's left ankle was taped, but he practiced. LB Koron Crump had that brace on his right knee.

TACKLE CIRCUIT: ASU started practice with tackling drills once again.

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11-on-0 OFFENSE: Not much that was new here, but here's how the teams looked...

First team: QB Manny Wilkins, RB Demario Richard, WRs N'Keal Harry/Fred Gammage/Jalen Harvey, TE Kody Kohl, LT Evan Goodman, LG Steven Miller, C Tyler McClure, RG Quinn Bailey, RT Zach Robertson

Second team: QB Dillon Sterling-Cole, RB Nick Ralston, WRs Terrell Chatman/Kyle Williams/Ellis Jefferson, TE Raymond Epps, LT Cohl Cabral, Scout team LG, C AJ McCollum, RG Alex Losoya, RT Mason Walter

Third team: QB Jack Smith, TE Jay Jay Wilson

The media viewing session ended following this session.

so I assume it ends up being like Armand Perry last year and we lose him for year?

I thought I read that we're holding an open scrimmage on Thursday evening but I can't seem to find info on it now. Anyone know what time it starts? Thanks!

Todd Graham's press conference will begin a little later today around 12:15, here's the link to the live stream

There is an article in today's Daily Star sports section entitled "3 reasons why Cats reeling, regressing late in the season" which could also be written about our Sun Devils this year...

1) Injury Factor...both teams have had significant injuries to key players, most notably at the all important QB position...you can throw UCLA into that mix as well and is a key reason that the Devils, Cats and Bruins sit at the bottom of the PAC South...

2) More Give Than Take...that refers to the all important turnover margin category where UCLA is 9th in the PAC at -2, ASU 10th at -3 and AU 12th at -8...

Not surprisingly, Wash is 1st at +13, Wazzu is 2nd at +10, Utah 3rd at +9 and Colo 4th at +7...

3) Lack of Development...this is hard to measure due to its subjectivity but there are many ASU fans that would point to this category and relate it directly to coaching or lack thereof...

My take is that it would be hard to be critical of QB development, for example, when Wilkins, White and Perkins have been injured...Perkins before the season began, Manny since the USC game and White injured during the UCLA game that was his only start...

We've also lost a couple of OL, had banged up RBs and WRs, injured LBs and lots of injuries in the secondary as well...

How realistic is it to rate lack of development under these circumstances..??

I think it is easy to conclude that if you lose your starting QB that your offense will suffer significantly, as a result, as shown by what has happened at ASU, AU and UCLA...

I also think there is great irony in the fact that ASU has preached and practiced about creating turnovers this season but to no real avail compared to most other teams in the conference...

I also don't think that has much to do with Rugby Style tackling (that Wash uses very successfully), with our scheme or coaching very much, either...

Being a Talent Is Destiny guy, I just don't think we have enough talent on defense to make things happen the way we would want...

Additionally, as I've said before, I don't think our coaches have adapted the defensive scheme as much as they probably should have given the defensive personnel limitations or that every player has been "coached up" all that successfully...

However, I also think that if Manny had not been injured that we well might have another 2-3 wins this season, even given another poor defense this year...

Hopefully, we will have enough returning starters this Thursday when we play another solid Utah team to win the game...

Go Devils!!!

Just curious where everyone stands with CTG. Don't just vote, please add a comment or two.