Mornin Mates...
Today's Topic...Unfathomable
These things are unfathomable when talking about our Sun Devils today...
That our defense, when healthy, is lousy and when it is as depleted as it is now, it is downright putrid...
That we are having to play our fourth string QB, a true freshman, who is playing like a true freshman...
That our overall team attrition due to injuries needs more than a MASH unit to return to duty...
That injuries will mount when everyone is wearing a bag over their head as the season continues to head south...
That these things are happening as we face some opponents like Oregon that are very beatable these days but we're so bad we can't even do that...
That Graham and his staff are pulling down millions of dollars in salary for us to have to watch while our football team sinks...
To Todd's credit, the team doesn't give up but it is still a disaster to watch in this his fifth year on the job at ASU...
It is also unfathomable that in year five at ASU, our defense and especially our secondary, doesn't have enough PAC quality players to compete in the upper half of any conference, much less the PAC...
I mean what has he been doing over the past four to five years in recruiting..??
And, I don't see many DL and/or secondary recruits committed to us yet, either...
We also need some big time RBs for depth and other players that can contribute right away, to climb above awful back to lousy as a team...
I'm being a little melodramatic but it is not fun watching the Sun Devils get beat the way they are getting beat these days and things are not going to get better anytime soon that I can see...
I guess we can all take some solace in the misery of other teams in the PAC like our in-state rivals, the Mildcats down here in Southern Arizona, who are now win-less in the PAC, thank goodness...
Rich Rod will still collect his millions for also having a complete disaster on his hands, in his fifth year on the job, in the Old Pueblo, and Jim Mora, at UCLA, is still going to collect his millions in LA, despite having what he termed his best team ever at U-cla but the Ruins are 1-4 in the PAC so far...
At least Rich Rod has owned up to the fact that his "own kind of guys" that he recruited initially at AU were not up to the task at hand, while I haven't seen anything from either Graham or Mora confessing to the same sort of past recruiting mistakes...
Then you have someone like Chris Petersen at UDub who also recruits "his kind of guys" at Wash and he is smelling like roses these days in Seattle...
If this was the first year that something like this was happening at ASU that would be one thing but coming on the heels of last season, a losing one after having high expectations, you have to wonder if this is the new normal for ASU under Todd and his staff...
Again, a little melodramatic for effect but then again maybe not if our recruiting doesn't get better...
So, for me at least, it is totally unfathomable that we have been this lousy in Todd's fourth and fifth years at ASU, when you should have your system and players in place and enough of them to overcome some misfortune along the way but we don't...
Some will say wait until next year but I'm not so sure about that if we put another putrid defense on the field in 2017...
G'day Mates and Go Devils!!!
