Is there hope for Arizona State amid portal losses, staff turnover, and ongoing turmoil?
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Portal losses, staff turnover, an ongoing NCAA investigation, and a yet-to-be-unveiled NIL collective, among other issues, have hamstrung Arizona State football. Doug Haller, who covers the Sun Devils for The Athletic, joins Andy in discussing ASU's hellacious position. Will Sparky's home be able to exorcise its demons...or is that a bad thing? Puns aside, the guys also converse about Herm Edward's future, who the Sun Devils' next QB will be, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show once again coming to you from the desert. |
| 0:14.2 | And when I'm in the desert, I have to visit with Doug Haller, the Athletics, Arizona State Beat Writer. |
| 0:20.0 | And Doug, I think this is, you know, |
| 0:24.4 | we're at an event where the Pac-12s meeting, the Big 12s meeting, the Big 10s meeting. So there's a lot |
| 0:28.8 | of big picture conversation going on. But I honestly can't think of a program that is more at |
| 0:35.0 | the nexus of all the stuff that is going on than Arizona State. |
| 0:39.6 | Like you, |
| 0:40.9 | you wrote your state of the program story this week on Arizona State, |
| 0:44.7 | and it was wild looking at the chart of how many first team guys that they thought, |
| 0:51.0 | when last season ended, |
| 0:52.4 | they thought would be Arizona State players |
| 0:54.6 | are somewhere else. |
| 0:56.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:57.5 | Hi, Andy. |
| 0:58.0 | It's pretty amazing. |
| 0:59.4 | I think if you would start at the end of last year, and if you would have told the fan base |
| 1:03.0 | that at the start of Herm Edwards' fifth season, you would be out without your quarterback, |
| 1:07.5 | Jaden Daniels. |
| 1:08.1 | Yep. |
| 1:08.7 | One year young, talented young running backs and Diamante, train them. |
| 1:12.6 | Your top two lean receivers and Ricky Pearsall, Elie Bunkley, Shelton. |
| 1:18.0 | Your best defensive player in Jermaine Lolle. |
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