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No surprising departures in the portal yet

all very predictable

unfortunately 3 are very negatively impactful for 2025 (Welch/Wilson/Douglas) but barring injury, none of the 3 was expected to start...................although Welch may have if Shemari does not return and if Abney was moved to Nickel to replace Shemari

there are still easily 8-10 more that would not impact anything more than deep depth

and the BEST NEWS OF ALL-----all THREE scholi place kickers are still in the house !!!!

Meanwhile in Tucson

If you are wondering how Tucson is taking ASU winning the Big-12 Football title? I can tell you they are not taking it well. Since Saturday, I have not seen 1 single person wearing rat gear. Yesterday I went to what is a pretty big gym, then later went to a Costco, followed by a big Pet store and a big Grocery Store as well as a Walgreens. I can tell you that in all of those places, I did not see a single person wearing rat gear, not one, none, zero, zilch, zippo, nada. They are just really hating life right now and do not want to run into any ASU folks while wearing their rat gear so they just don't wear it at all. The looks you get are priceless. It's a great time for the Devils faithful down here it Ratville!! Go Devils!!

New Speak of the Devils Podcast: Devils are Playoff bound

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Get ready for playoff football. @Joe Healey and I dive into ASU's historic Big 12 Conference victory over Iowa State and what it says about the program. Then we discuss the all-conference honors for the Sun Devils and the biggest snubs. We wrap up with a look at the early portal activity and how Kenny Dillingham's approach could pay dividends.

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Travel to Peach Bowl

Many of you have already possibly looked into travel to the game, and flights to ATL shot up pretty dramatically. I booked a flight in BHM, rented a car to drive into ATL, and then dropping it off at the ATL airport, and then Ubering to my hotel. I land in BHM at about 8:00AM on the 31st, so if anyone else is going that route, and wants to carpool into ATL, let me know. For the trip back I'm taking a shuttle from ATL to BHM.

STORY: Sun Devils are consumed with multitasking transfer portal, playoffs prep

"College football doesn't sleep. You wake up today, and it's the beginning of the portal. It's like, ‘Okay, and it's a whole new season within a season.’" ASU is juggling the construction of the 2025 team with laying the foundation for its playoff quarterfinal prep process

Big-12 Bowl Games

The conference has nine teams playing in bowl games this year...

12-17 = Scooters Coffee Frisco Bowl featuring W Virginia vs Memphis (ACC)

12-26 = Rate Bowl featuring K-State vs Rutgers (B1G)

12-27 = AutoZone Liberty Bowl featuring Texas Tech vs Arkansas (SEC)

12-28 = Isleta New Mexico Bowl featuring TCU vs Louisville (ACC)

12-28 = Pop Tarts Bowl featuring Iowa St vs Miami (FL) (ACC)

12-28 = Valero Alamo Bowl featuring Colorado vs BYU

12-31 Kinder's Texas Bowl featuring Baylor vs LSU (SEC)

12-31 Chick fil A Peach Bowl featuring Big-12 conference champion ASU vs TBD between Texss and Clemson

So, we have several match-ups between Big-12 teams and the SEC and B1G along with ACC match-ups...

I'll be rooting for all of our conference brethren in those games...Go Big-12 and Go Devils!!!

Portal Discussion: Likely Offseason Transfers

With the unexpected success ASU is having on the football field, we can be fairly certain that teams from the Big Ten and SEC are going to be making calls to agents of ASU players this offseason to see if they can be tempted away from Tempe. Based mostly on player stats through today (Nov. 21), here are my guesses as to who will leave and who will stay:

  1. Sam Leavitt - STAY
  2. Kyson Brown - TRANSFER
  3. Raleek Brown - STAY (next year's starter?)
  4. Jordyn Tyson - TRANSFER (Texas school?)
  5. Chamon Metayer - STAY
  6. Myles Rowser - TRANSFER
  7. Xavion Alford - TRANSFER
  8. C.J. Fite - TRANSFER
Agree? Disagree? Who did I miss?
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I am very happy

For the team and coaches. Outstanding.

But I am also grateful for this season for the old timers and the guys getting up there in age. They get to have this moment. Maybe even some of the old-time fans could have a health issue right now and this really boosts the mood.

This is why I am critical of the failed leadership. When you let down the people like this, you aren’t impacting just your organization, you are impacting the fans. It’s not about you.

So to the old timers this one’s for you!

ALABAMA AD

What crybabies.....the AD is a real genius....saying as I paraphrase and add the teams he's afraid to hurt their feelings to.....maybe we need to reevaluate playing teams like South Florida, Western Kentucky and Mercer. I guess that deep analysis is why he......oh, and let's not leave out Sarkisian at Texas (crying too) and good 'ol Lane, get paid the big bucks. https://www.espn.com/college-footba...-ad-re-evaluate-nonconference-slate-cfp-picks
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