Mornin Mates...
Today's Topic = 2025 Questions
Will the pundits get it wrong again in this new year regarding where our Sun Devils will land in football next season..??
They picked us last in the Big-12 this past year and will not pick us last this next season, but will they overcompensate, IMHO, and pick us as the best team in the conference in the preseason this year..??
Granted that we have a dynamic and talented QB returning but is that any guarantee that will translate into another conference championship next season..??
My intuition tells me that the over/under for our Devils next season should probably be around 7.5 and not something like 9.5 or thereabouts given the parity within the rest of the Big-12...
I don't think that we can compensate for the loss of Skattebo that easily, although we do have some good. solid RBs in the stable but no Triple Crown winners, either, in my estimation...
It's nice to get Tyson back but what about the other receivers at this point..??
We can ask the same sorts of questions about almost any other position on the team and what about special teams that many, including myself, think is the biggest weakness on the team, and who knows if this will be significantly improved or not by next season...
Dilly is now being considered a Rock Star coach at the age of 34 and he certainly appeared to bring about one miracle after another this season but wasn't Scott Frost, who is back at UCF, also once considered a "rock star" after going undefeated in his second season at UCF, before going to Nebraska, where he was run out of town after several years of futility there...
Of course, Dilly isn't going off to a place like Nebraska and is staying in the Big-12, where there aren't any elite teams like they have in the B1G and SEC...
It looks like he can excel in the Big-12 but maybe not so much in the B1G and/or the SEC, if he ever went to either of those conferences, unless it was someplace like Ohio St or Georgia, etc...
So, can the Devils sustain their newfound success moving forward in the Big-12 or not..??
It doesn't appear that is going to happen at Colorado, where Prime Time turned that program around, with his son at QB, but is now looking elsewhere, it appears, since his coaching fame is at its high point and may be taking a nose dive at CU, if he stays the course there...
And, who thinks teams that failed badly this past season like Oklahoma St are going to continue to be that awful in 2025...
Not me, that's for sure...
That said, Dilly is a savvy New Age college football coach who also brings a lot of moxie to the coaching table, so maybe he will be able to maintain a highly successful program at ASU...
Especially since the transition to a revenue sharing cap will be in place sometime within the next several months for all of the P-4 conferences, as a result of the NCAA settlement agreement...
Of course, the transfer portal and NIL dollars will still be out there as flies in the settlement ointment to borrow from an old cliche...
So, in closing is a 7.5 over/under about right for our Sun Devils this next season based on what we now have returning compared to what other conference teams have returning..??
I like that we have seven home games this next season, along with a NFL prospect at QB and a lot of returning two-deep players, but don't know if that will be nearly good enough to win another 10 or 11 games in 2025...
But, I could easily live with 8 or 9 wins, that's for sure...
Now, if we had the overall pro-level talent of say Ohio St, ND, Texas or Penn St, achieving another 10+ wins would seem to be pretty realistic to me...
But, I like swimming and competing in a much smaller Big-12 pond, as swimming and competing in an ocean full of large sharks is a whole different deal entirely...
G'day Mates and Go Devils!!!
Today's Topic = 2025 Questions
Will the pundits get it wrong again in this new year regarding where our Sun Devils will land in football next season..??
They picked us last in the Big-12 this past year and will not pick us last this next season, but will they overcompensate, IMHO, and pick us as the best team in the conference in the preseason this year..??
Granted that we have a dynamic and talented QB returning but is that any guarantee that will translate into another conference championship next season..??
My intuition tells me that the over/under for our Devils next season should probably be around 7.5 and not something like 9.5 or thereabouts given the parity within the rest of the Big-12...
I don't think that we can compensate for the loss of Skattebo that easily, although we do have some good. solid RBs in the stable but no Triple Crown winners, either, in my estimation...
It's nice to get Tyson back but what about the other receivers at this point..??
We can ask the same sorts of questions about almost any other position on the team and what about special teams that many, including myself, think is the biggest weakness on the team, and who knows if this will be significantly improved or not by next season...
Dilly is now being considered a Rock Star coach at the age of 34 and he certainly appeared to bring about one miracle after another this season but wasn't Scott Frost, who is back at UCF, also once considered a "rock star" after going undefeated in his second season at UCF, before going to Nebraska, where he was run out of town after several years of futility there...
Of course, Dilly isn't going off to a place like Nebraska and is staying in the Big-12, where there aren't any elite teams like they have in the B1G and SEC...
It looks like he can excel in the Big-12 but maybe not so much in the B1G and/or the SEC, if he ever went to either of those conferences, unless it was someplace like Ohio St or Georgia, etc...
So, can the Devils sustain their newfound success moving forward in the Big-12 or not..??
It doesn't appear that is going to happen at Colorado, where Prime Time turned that program around, with his son at QB, but is now looking elsewhere, it appears, since his coaching fame is at its high point and may be taking a nose dive at CU, if he stays the course there...
And, who thinks teams that failed badly this past season like Oklahoma St are going to continue to be that awful in 2025...
Not me, that's for sure...
That said, Dilly is a savvy New Age college football coach who also brings a lot of moxie to the coaching table, so maybe he will be able to maintain a highly successful program at ASU...
Especially since the transition to a revenue sharing cap will be in place sometime within the next several months for all of the P-4 conferences, as a result of the NCAA settlement agreement...
Of course, the transfer portal and NIL dollars will still be out there as flies in the settlement ointment to borrow from an old cliche...
So, in closing is a 7.5 over/under about right for our Sun Devils this next season based on what we now have returning compared to what other conference teams have returning..??
I like that we have seven home games this next season, along with a NFL prospect at QB and a lot of returning two-deep players, but don't know if that will be nearly good enough to win another 10 or 11 games in 2025...
But, I could easily live with 8 or 9 wins, that's for sure...
Now, if we had the overall pro-level talent of say Ohio St, ND, Texas or Penn St, achieving another 10+ wins would seem to be pretty realistic to me...
But, I like swimming and competing in a much smaller Big-12 pond, as swimming and competing in an ocean full of large sharks is a whole different deal entirely...
G'day Mates and Go Devils!!!
