Mornin Mates...

Today's Topic = Less Than Two Weeks From Now

The wait is almost over as the Sun Devils will take on Wyoming at home on Saturday, August 31st...

In the meantime, next weekend, Florida St takes on Georgia Tech in Dublin, Ireland and the game can be watched on ESPN...

There appear to be many positives coming out of preseason for our Sun Devils...

There don't appear to be many major injuries (knock on wood)...

The Plan A QB situation is still in place as neither Sims or Bourguet have beaten out Sam Leavitt...

The only question at that position is who is going to back-up Leavitt...??

It appears that Trenton has done better than Sims in practice, thus far, but the coaches will ultimately decide...

Dilly has repeatedly said that both Leavitt and Sims will play on Sundays in the NFL but many of us would question that statement based on what we've seen in practice, so far...

Another positive appears to be the overall depth at each position as we appear at least two deep at all positions without having much, if any, slippage from first to second team players...

Offensively, we appear to have an abundance of quality running backs and our receiving corps is in about the same situation...

Even the TE position looks pretty good at this point in terms of quality and depth...

Turning to the defense, we go two deep in terms of both quality and depth, with the linebackers better than last year and with the DL and defensive secondary looking like they could be much improved over last season, too...

On Special Teams, we should have a better punter but don't know about placekicking yet, IMHO...

So, if the offense can keep turnovers to a minimum and the defense can create several turnovers a game, we just might be able to win more than four games this year...

Especially if our special teams come across as special rather than as the disaster they were last season...

The Wyoming game won't be easy but we appear to have more talent on paper than the Cowboys and, if an Haboob doesn't show up to disrupt things, I think we should come away with a good, solid win...

If not, we may, once again, be looking at a three win season that won't sit well with anyone wearing Maroon and Gold...

One thing I'm looking forward to this season is seeing a pass completion between Trenton and his brother Coben during a game, as they both deserve it, as far as I'm concerned, having followed them since they played together at Marana HS down here...

What are you all looking forward to besides winning enough games to go bowling..??

G'day Mates and Go Devils!!!

The first Tempe scrimmage of fall camp was held Saturday night at Mountain America Stadium and was a session that featured a better showing by the offense compared to recent practices by that group.

“I’ve never taken the field where I didn’t think we were going to win. In my entire career, in my entire life.” Low outside expectations of ASU's inguaral Big 12 season serving as a constant motivator and rejecting contentment amid strong defensive performance in fall camp

"I thought It was a good mental day for these guys just as much as it was physically.” Saturday night's session offered a game day-like environment that featured newly approved technology and resulted in a balanced effort between both sides of the ball

...and do I need to get it? Anybody watched any of it? I haven't heard anything about it.

ASU won a total of nine medals in Paris, tied with Notre Dame for the eighth-most number of medals won by universities. Léon Marchand won five of those none ASU medals

“We always come to practice ready to get each other better. Whether it’s on the field or off the field. I just want to support my guys and have fun.” Newcomers such as Jacob Kongaika have quickly made an impact on and off the field, elevating the ASU defense

The day before ASU’s second scrimmage of fall camp, Friday’s practice saw a hounding defensive line and strong secondary cause more problems for the Sun Devil offense, although they took steps in the right direction. Here are our takeaways

A new generation of gold jerseys have just been revealed. Take a look at the details including what that helmet looks like here: https://arizonastate.rivals.com/news/2024-uniformity-breaking-news-sun-devils-reveal-new-gold-jersey

#3 = Travis Hunter - DB/WR - Colorado

#8 = Ollie Gordon - RB - Oklahoma St

#13 = Tetairao McMillan - WR - AU

#24 = Shedeur Sanders - QB - Colorado

#37 = Tahj Brooks - RB - Texas Tech

#40 = Jalon Daniels - QB - Kansas

#51 = Noah Fifita - QB - AU

#53 = Cam Rising - QB - Utah

#77 = Cobee Bryant - CB - Kansas

#85 = Jonah Savaiinaea - OL - AU

#93 = Avery Johnson - QB - K-State

#94 = Tacario Davis - CB - AU

Cats have most on list (4) while many teams like ASU do not have any listed...

We face four QBs listed, two at home and two on road...

Obviously, Jedd Fisch did some outstanding recruiting for the Cats while in Tucson that has elevated their program significantly from what it was before he arrived...

Fifita was only a RS FR last season and we have a RS FR that will start for us this year...

Can you think of any current Sun Devils that might make the list by this time next year..??

Go Devils!!!

Saturday, August 17: Join us!

@bdenny29 and I will be doing our second ever LIVE podcast, this time from Sun Devil alumni owned and operated Hundred Mile Brewing Company in Tempe (Rural/202).

New ASU Athletic Director Graham Rossini will join us and chat with Brad and me and also take your questions! We'll have additional guests as well and we also expect a certain ASU website publisher who may or may not suck to be in attendance as well! We'll have raffles and giveaways and at Hundred Mile, the food and drinks are top notch as well!

Here's the gameplan for the day:

3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.: Our "pre-show" to get things rolling and test out the equipment (we've already run some tests to avoid issues like last year at the Graduate!). Brad and I will do some opening banter and likely have a guest or two to warm things up. We encourage people to show up during this hour!

4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.: The main event! We will record this portion and this will be when we speak with Graham Rossini and other guests.

5:00 p.m.+: Unrecorded, exclusive Audience Q&A.

PLEASE USE THIS LINK to RSVP. It is not required but it helps us and the venue assess a headcount to prepare.

Hope to see you there!

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“The defense just kicked their butt tonight." Wednesday's night practice in Mountain America Stadium was yet another session this week that showcased domination from one side of the ball for the Sun Devils

“Defensively, we are where we want to be. Now it's just adding wrinkles to it and cleaning up the fundamentals which we are.” The formidable defensive performance by the Sun Devils as of late still has that group eager to improve even more