2022 Pac 12 Thread

[CatsbyAZ]

After last night’s loss to BYU, dropping the Cardinal to 3-9, the David Shaw era at Stanford is voluntarily over:



https://twitter.com/StanfordFball/status/1596784333611683840

[CatsbyAZ]

Arizona State names Oregon OC and Scottsdale native Kenny Dillingham as Head Coach. At 32 years old Dillingham not only becomes the youngest HC in the nation, but the first one born in the 1990s. (I remember when the community college I started at similarly noted their first student born in the 1990s.)

By all accounts Dillingham is a good, hardworking guy, but in taking the ASU opening he’s set up for failure given the looming NCAA investigation and the two straight seasons of rock bottom recruiting. ASU might turn into a lengthy rebuilding job, and if so, if the admin knows this, Kenny Dillingham is the type of hire made if both parties know this is a lame duck hire.

Instead of the usual dynamic of an interim acting as a head coach, Dillingham's hire is the reverse - a head coach hired to act as a functional, place holding interim until the potential NCAA penalties and aftermath resolve.

I say that, but don't think it's exactly the case because I have zero faith in ASU AD Ray Anderson attributing this much complexity to his decision. He's too obtuse. RA more likely believes he's hiring a bright young gun while Dillingham - "hey, why not!" - is waking up feeling like Jeff Saturday.


https://twitter.com/ASUFootball/status/1596882029555027968

[CatsbyAZ]

Coach Prime lands in Boulder.

So goes college football following college basketball's recent hiring trend of going gambling on the brash, former famous player - Patrick Ewing, Juwan Howard, Anfernee Hardaway. Expect a recruiting splash but a learning curve at best and a whiff at worse when it comes to the Xs/Os scheming.


https://twitter.com/CUBuffsFootball/status/1599243035518197760

[FearlessF]

never really liked Deion, never really liked Ralphie

good match for me to root against

here's to hoping like heck it's an epic fail!

[FearlessF]

https://twitter.com/BrianHowell33/status/1599551116131602432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1599551116131602432%7Ctwgr%5E74065cb41fe853a4d1a0c61bbee7b388663c6933%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsaturdaytradition.com%2Fbig-ten-football%2Fcolorado-ad-has-a-bizarre-response-to-how-buffs-got-the-money-to-pay-deion-sanders%2F

[CatsbyAZ]

Stanford Football hires Troy Taylor as Head Coach from Sacramento State where in three seasons his teams went 30-8.




https://twitter.com/StanfordFball/status/1601673354892652546

[FearlessF]

and probably saved some $$$

[CatsbyAZ]

Remember Rudy Carpenter, ASU QB from about 15 years ago? He sounds of with insights into the limits ASU Football is facing - from an interview with Compare.Bet: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_Nc-36jy7h4J:https://www.compare.bet/en-us/news/ex-qb-rudy-carpenter-im-rooting-for-kenny-dillingham-but-arizona-state-athletic-department-will-hold-him-back&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

"...Carpenter stresses multiple times that he’s “rooting for Kenny Dillingham” and hopes he can turn the Arizona State football team around."

“I’m someone who wants this program to really do well; I want to see ASU succeed,” Carpenter said. “I’m happy we have someone young in there — fresh ideas, innovative, understands the kids a little bit better. But I think ASU and that program is going to continue to struggle until they make a lot of changes at the administration level. And that’s not just the athletic director spot. That’s one spot."

“At ASU it’s been a bunch of the same old people who were there well before I went there who are just ecstatic about collecting checks. As long as they are getting their checks and their benefits and everything else that comes with it, that’s fine. And if ASU is 7-5 every year, who cares? To me, that’s not acceptable. To them, it has been. And to the president of the school (Michael Crow) it’s been acceptable for sure.”

"Carpenter does not see a department willing to push the envelope, and he would love to see a Dillingham-like shakeup at the administrative level that would “reinvigorate that entire building with young, talented, capable people, not a bunch of administrators that are happy to collect checks while saying the politically correct things every day.”

"A strong push by Arizona State’s most wealthy donors could be the most realistic way to get it done, but Carpenter isn’t holding his breath. “It’s really difficult,” Carpenter said. “Why? Because who do those boosters love the most? Those administrators. Why? Because the administrators give them carte blanche for everything and anything they want to do. They kowtow to them. It is what it is, but personally I’d like to see an entire shakeup. Again, I’m rooting for Kenny. I love (newly-hired assistant) Charlie Ragle. I hope that staff does well. But to me it’s very similar to NFL teams. When you have a terrible ownership group, it’s really, really difficult.”

“You hear so much that it’s a sleeping giant and yada, yada, yada. They’ve never been able to really get it off the ground, and there are a lot of reasons for that. I think someone who has been a fan here for a long time understands some of what the limitations are. I think Kenny understands that. I think it’s a good hire. He’s super enthusiastic and he really wants to be successful in this job. I’m happy for him.”

Can't say I disagree with anything Carpenter says!