Certainly not surprising to read this, and of course it would begin with the SEC - Tennessee raising ticket prices by 10% to cover the 2025-26 Rev Share portion with student athletes

https://www.espn.com/college-footba...ups-season-ticket-prices-10-help-pay-athletes

And in addition to this, they are increasing tickets another 4.5%........am pretty sure 99% of their fans will pay it.........they supposedly have a season ticket waiting list of 15,000........highest pd AD in country, and highest pd baseball coach as well

So far, nobody has been fired although Billy Napier could test the patience of the Swamp if he lays an egg against Texas AM this weekend.

My hot take is Deion will leave Colorado after this season (with his son leaving for the draft) and Colorado should target GJ Kinne.

I thought Texas State had a heck of a game plan coming in. That was a well prepared team. Unfortunately for their coach, (and to our benefit) their RB coughed the ball up and their QB didn't read a safety. But his Sun Belt team stood toe to toe with a Big 12 team. I thought he put his players in position to succeed maybe even more so than Dillingham did. Like ASU, Colorado would do well to look at recruiting the state of Texas and he's a guy for that.

Expect Kyan McDonald to get more game day snaps at nickel

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That's a subject an AP article by John Marshall tackles in today's newspaper down here...

BYU, Central Florida, Cincy and Houston were all added to the Big-12 last year and none ended up with a winning record at the end of the season...

So far, the addition this year of the Four Corner schools, that includes our Sun Devils, all have winning records and Utah is still ranked, while AU had been ranked until their loss last weekend to K-State...

Utah most probably will continue to win games and will most likely compete for the conference championship, while AU should win many more than it loses, while both ASU and Colorado might well struggle to win more than they lose but it's obvious that the Four Corner schools have, indeed, added more heft to the Big-12 this year...

This is how the article describes the Sun Devils at this point in our season and I paraphrase...

"Devils were racked by injuries last season (Dilly's first at ASU) that had a lot to do with the 3-9 season but the Devils appear to be on the road to turning things around this year by winning its first three games...after a revolving door at QB last season the team already has a steady presence at that position in transfer Sam Leavitt...Cam Skattebo has also been instrumental in the Devils success, so far"...

I just hope and trust that we add more value this year to the conference than Prime Time adds with the Buffs in Boulder...

Of the three teams added last year, it appears that UCF might have an outside chance of winning the conference, since they have a very good proven coach, good and big experienced QB, along with a very experienced team and a favorable schedule...

I guess it could come down to UCF playing a team like the Utes for the Big-12 championship, if teams like K-State and Oklahoma St, etc, falter...

I just want our Sun Devils to keep winning games, one game at a time...Go Devils and Beat the Red Raiders!!!

Despite the continuing blistering desert heat, the Devils football climate, in and around ASU, is putting a smile on Sun Devil fans everywhere these days...

However, the long-term weather forecast remains cloudy, even though the Devils are now ranked #10 in Big-12 team power ratings by USA Today...

Their next opponent, Texas Tech, is rated #14 after barely beating Abilene Christian and losing badly to Wazzu but coming back to trounce No Texas this past weekend...

Their coach - Joey McGuire (53) - was hired a couple of years ago, where he had been the Associate HC (and LB coach) under Matt Ruhle at Baylor, and then briefly became the interim HC at Baylor when Ruhle went onto the NFL...

Since coming to the Red Raiders three years ago, he has posted 8-5 (5-4) and 7-6 (5-4) records at Tech and in his first season in Lubbock he beat both Oklahoma and Texas...

Early on, before becoming a college coach, he won three state titles at the Texas HS level and had a HS coaching record of 142-42, so everyone in Texas knows about him...

The 10 day weather forecast for Lubbock next Saturday calls for partly cloudy skies with a game time temp in the mid-80s...

The betting forecast for the game has established the Red Raiders as a 3.5 favorite to win the game against ASU...

In addition to a partly cloudy day next Saturday in Texas, the long-term weather forecast for the Devils also remains cloudy at this point in the season...

For two of their wins have come against teams, Wyoming and Miss St, that are barely showing signs of life these days, which begs the question of how good those Devils wins were in the overall Big-12 scope of things...

USA Today has the Utes #1 this week but they travel to #3 Oklahoma St this next weekend to take on the Cowboys, while #2 K-State, that put a thumping on #6 AU on Friday, travels to #9 ranked BYU to face the Cougars, before returning home to host Oklahoma St in two weeks...

Would anyone here argue with the "cloudy" Big-12 weather forecast for our Sun Devils looking ahead to our Big-12 campaign..??

The good news is that we already have half of the needed wins to become bowl eligible and are almost to the over of our 4.5 O/U line before the season began...

But, we still don't have a clear weather barometer with which to forecast the remainder of the season, do we..??

As an aside, down here in Geezerville, we got some nice rain last night that is making this morning feel much more comfortable, just like Sun Devil wins always make me feel good despite the weather outside at any given time...

What is your Sun Devil weather forecast for the upcoming Big-12 football campaign...??

Go Devils and Beat the Red Raiders!!!

"I’m going to challenge our team as a whole to how they respond to success, and I’m looking forward to getting better every single day.” Some saw QB Sam Leaviit's performance last week as his redemption game, but he views it as just another building block in a long journey

I stand corrected - ASU at Texas Tech line did open with ASU as a 3.5-point underdog

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I can’t believe how bad UCLA was on Saturday and I see no hope for that program. That coaching staff is atrocious. The team is senior laden. Talent and recruiting appears mediocre and they are in a tough transcontinental conference. On Florida, Napier gets fired any day now and the buyout I heard is over 25M. Early signing day is early December so you have to move. Not sure who they go after. Really happy Dillingham has strong local ties making him much harder to poach and he can coach.

“Our guys didn’t flinch in that game. That was awesome to see." In the midst of a performance that Kenny Dillingham called "humbling," the ASU head coach saw his team's resolve in a comeback win as a perfect sign of the program's direction

I am a bit worried about our pass defense this week vs Texas Tech. ASU made halftime adjustments vs Texas State but will it be enough to stop Techs passing game? Hopefully we get pressure on the qb and get an interception or two.

Mornin Mates...

Today's Topic = Big-12 vs PAC

That's a topic Greg Hansen takes on in his sports column in the Daily Star this morning...

He points out the just before the Cats game with K-State on Friday night in Manhattan, KS, 100 Harley Davidson motorcycles entered the stadium to reeve up the already boisterous crowd before the game as they circled the the field with their engines firing loudly as only a Harley can do...

He then contrasts that with how often PAC stadiums are only half-full before games while K-State has sell-out crowds all of the time being treated to a Big-12 rowdy type crowds that are now part of their teams identities...

Even teams like USC and UCLA, in the LA area, populated by millions upon millions of people, don't typically have large crowds unless the Trojans are playing a team like Notre Dame while the Big-12 teams average 93% capacity for their home games...

Those teams have left for the Big-10 but I wonder how many fans will show up for games against the likes of Rutgers and Maryland, etc...

How many fans did ASU have against either Wyoming or MIss St..??

And, how many will they have when they return home in a couple of weeks to play Kansas..??

We know there won't be any Harley's circling the field beforehand, although crowds at other Sun Devil road games will be viewed by large, boisterous crowds for the most part...

So, when we face K-State later in the season, on the road, we will face not only a talented and well coached football team but a capacity, going bonkers crowd in their stadium, too...

And, the same will be true next Saturday when we visit Texas Tech in Lubbock, TX, that has a stadium capacity of 60K+...

The Red Raiders put on an event before each game called Raiders Gate that has 10,000 students doing a tailgate party outside the stadium beginning four hours before each game, where they can party hardy and meet and interact with players and coaches before the game and it's free...

Maybe, it will be a brunch sort of deal before the ASU game on Saturday, since it's not a night game, but you can bet the fans will be plenty amped up before the game...

Getting back to the Cats for a moment, Hansen also pointed out that the team, that lost badly to K-State, was missing at least 10 key members of last seasons 10 win year Wildcat team...

Which made me think how many "key" members of the Sun Devil team last year we have really missed this season...

Off hand, I'm not sure that we lost any players that haven't been replaced successfully by Dilly and his staff this season but will defer to what some of you think regarding that point...

If so, who are we missing that we wish we had back this season..??

There might be a few but probably not like anything approaching more than a handful, if that, right..??

On another note, Wyoming and Miss St lost badly last night that calls into question the quality of the first two Sun Devil wins, right, or does it..??

Additionally, are the Devils as good as a team like Toledo from the MAC that demolished Miss St in Mississippi yesterday..??

And, how many teams in the Big-12 are as good as the Toledo Rockets that we will be facing in the Big-12 for the rest of the season..??

But, one thing is for sure, the Big-12 crowds will be large and boisterous, unlike what was seen, oftentimes, in the PAC, right..??

G'day Mates and Go Devils!!!

Let's all wish @BigESunDevil a happy birthday! @Hod Rabino I'm sure has a few good words he'd like say here too. Hod?