I'm connected to quite a few former players via social media and surprisingly most of them are positive regarding the Edwards hire, which is at least nice to see. IMO the only way he succeeds is if he surrounds himself with a staff that has a good mix of recruiting ability (CA especially) and player development (obviously this applies to most coaches but ESPECIALLY Herm in this case).
I don't doubt he'll be able to motivate and rally the team, and his personality and NFL experience could probably help him close some recruits as well. Just hope he doesn't try to revert ASU to a vanilla NFL style offense (those are actually harder to recruit for if you aren't a traditional helmet, if you didn't already figure).