Bear Down Wildcats

azcat49 wrote: Sat Aug 13, 2022 4:38 am ASU has a bad roster, underwhelming staff and the Pac-12’s worst recruiting class in 2023," he wrote. "All that, and a milquetoast 25-18 record under Edwards. ASU passed on starting over when the scope of the potential allegations against Edwards became apparent. Instead, they’ve emboldened the aggrieved staffers who claim they got pushed out for not cheating, who have been overloading NCAA investigators with evidence of the violations under Edwards’ watch."

This is the biggest dumpster fire in college football," the preview quoted one coach as saying about ASU. "It is absolutely mind blowing that Herm (Edwards) is still employed, at least in the mind of the college coaching community. Everyone knows it's a ticking time bomb, but no one knows if it's going off in a month or a year from now.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/arizona-stat ... 06243.html

So nice to read on a Saturday morning. F ASSU

azcat49 wrote: Sat Aug 13, 2022 4:38 am ASU has a bad roster, underwhelming staff and the Pac-12’s worst recruiting class in 2023," he wrote. "All that, and a milquetoast 25-18 record under Edwards. ASU passed on starting over when the scope of the potential allegations against Edwards became apparent. Instead, they’ve emboldened the aggrieved staffers who claim they got pushed out for not cheating, who have been overloading NCAA investigators with evidence of the violations under Edwards’ watch."

TheCatInTheHat wrote: Tue Aug 16, 2022 2:02 pm Guess I'm just putting this here because of the thread title. If you're an ASU alum, obviously it's normal to wear a school shirt in metro Phoenix at any time (and also Tucson if you have a chip on your shoulder.) And to any ASU game anywhere. But I can't see it if you live out-of-state and have any sense whatsoever. I get the fan-boy thing for the big football and basketball schools, and that includes Arizona hoops jerseys reflecting a program that attracts generic fans all over the place who've never set foot in Arizona. I think it's lame, but I guess I also get strutting around if you're a self-important alum of an Ivy League school or something like that. But ASU: good at providing on-line high school classes (true), good at self-promotion, good at self-provided data to an otherwise obscure magazine for completely unscientific ratings, and allegedly good in the vague and completely unquantifiable area of "innovation." And in athletics, either completely mediocre or involved in massive scandals. That's about it. It would be like strutting around in a CS-Northridge, CS-Dominguez Hills, or Saddleback College shirt. It's a shrug if you went somewhere like that, but you wouldn't run out and buy a license plate holder or wave a flag about it. No biggee, but I saw someone wearing one on my walk the other day, and I kind of simultaneously rolled my eyes and scratched my head over it. I'm not talking about the cultural phenomenon of the Phoenix family of four in the cringe-worthy matching Halloween costumes during their one-week summer vacation. This is Jethro Bodine, proud of being a graduate of the Sixth Grade, parading around thinking he's "competing" with USC, Yale, etc. Just odd, and I'm quite sure it doesn't generate the desired effect. Just a random musing.

UAEebs86 wrote: Wed Aug 24, 2022 12:06 pm It's the donor's last name. Still stupid.

AZCatGirl wrote: Wed Aug 24, 2022 9:20 pm

UAEebs86 wrote: Wed Aug 24, 2022 12:06 pm It's the donor's last name. Still stupid.

A donor having this name and getting an arena named after him is the most perfect ASU thing ever. *Chef's Kiss*

azgreg wrote: Sun Sep 18, 2022 2:05 pm

Alieberman wrote: Sun Sep 18, 2022 2:39 pm How did Herm not get fired in the off-season?