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Dillingham seeking younger players to step up during spring

"Hopefully, these next three weeks we find 6 to 12 more guys that we're like, ‘Man, we can count on you to help us.’" Increased depth and overall player improvement can only take place when underclassmen, even on the veteran team, make an impact

Graham Rossini's proposed contract extension and raise to $950K in July

Another ABOR April 10th agenda item is expected to be approved, giving Rossibi a $300K raise this year and $100K each year thereafter, along with the usual academic bonuses. Keep in mind that this salary matches what Ray Ansderson is still making as a quasi-law professor or whatever the hell he's doing these days. Once his salary comes off the books, Rossini's salary kicks in.



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OT- ASU's April Fools Prank Gathering National Attention

My brother-in-law went to the San Antonio Spurs game tonight and shared this picture during a time-out skit featuring the Spurs's Coyote.

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Gotta love it! Mad props to the ASU social media team for generating this kind of buzz! Extra points to the Spurs for calling us "ASU". We are THE ASU

STORY: Fifth inning meltdown is the difference in Arizona series opener loss

“We didn’t play poorly tonight. We left a couple of pitches over the plate that they didn’t miss. The really only glaring thing is the two-out focus there in the fifth." Mid-game struggles on the mound and at the plate result in ASU's Friday night loss to Arizona

STORY: Offense bounces back from earlier lukewarm practice performance

“Guys have done a good job. We've thrown a lot at them. They've done a really good job of understanding the intensity and deliberateness." Harsh words on the offense's Tuesday display were followed by a much stronger session by the players in maroon

STORY: Defensive progression is evident early on in ASU's spring practices

“It’s really good that everyone came back. Now we’re into this second year, and this is gonna get even bigger, better.” Roster continuity, vast experience, and unerclassmen shinning have defined a stout ASU defense and its spring performance

hurley is screwed and so is ASU in the short term

At this point his own arrogance and lack of coaching ability has backed his "career" into a serious dead end.

Had he left after the 2023 season he could have used the excuse of "lack of institutional investment" as the reason and other schools would have gladly bought that, hired him to a long term deal with a raise, and he'd be their problem now. By staying and absolutely imploding the past two seasons, he can no longer use that excuse as it comes off as disingenuous. No program with all of the things he wants would hire him. Any program who would be willing to hire him won't have those things, and thus him complaining about them will be a turn off to them as well. Coming back for a third straight disasterous season will do further damage to himself.

bob at best is going to need to do a major rehabilitation to his value if he wants to continue to making college coaching a career. At worst, he's basically done in the profession. At this point he'll need to go back to a low mid-major, if one would have him, and try to win enough to one day get a shot at a high mid-major or better. The issue is that people will always look at how badly things went when he was coaching at this level and that will always be a knock against him. For me his best chance at redemption would be to swallow his ego, work out a severance package with ASU that GR can live with, appeal to Rick Pitino to work under him and rebuild his reputation with the possibility of taking over St. John's in 5+ seasons.
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