(Photo: Nicholas Badders/WCSN) After a quiet 48 hours around ASU's search for a new head football coach, an unexpected name exploded onto the scene on Tuesday afternoon. Long-time NFL head coach Herm Edwards will interview for the Sun Devils' job opening this weekend, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter. Edwards, 63, is currently
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ASU Football Coaching Search: Evaluating how well Kevin Sumlin, other candidates, match Ray Anderson’s coaching wish list
(Photo: Nicholas Badders/WCSN) With Thanksgiving passed and college football’s regular season officially over, two of the holiday's great traditions are underway. The making of wish lists and the churning of the college football coaching carousel. Arizona State athletic director Ray Anderson is getting to blend those two activities this winter as he searches
ASU Football: Decision to fire Graham negatively impacts the program
(Photo: Nicholas Badders/WCSN) Todd Graham was relieved of his duties as ASU football coach Sunday morning after six seasons in which he amassed a 46-31 record. A few hours after the news broke, Athletic Director Ray Anderson held a press conference to justify the firing. In the span of 30 minutes, Anderson
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ASU Football: Graham fired, unable to raise program to Anderson’s standards
(Photo: Brett Deckert/WCSN) Todd Graham made no bones about it when speaking to the media on Sunday. He hadn't expected he was going to get fired. Not after six seasons that produced 46 wins (the third-most in program history), a division title, and four wins over in-state rivals Arizona. Graham’s dismissal comes as little surprise
ASU Football GALLERY: 42-30 win over Arizona
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ASU Football: Todd Graham deserves to keep his job
(Photo: Nicholas Badders/WCSN) ASU football ran away from rival Arizona 42-30 on Saturday in Tempe. The Sun Devils, picked to finish fifth in the Pac-12 South, end the regular season with the second-best record in their division at 7-5 (6-3 Pac-12). For that reason, and many others, head coach Todd Graham should
ASU Football: Sun Devils reclaim Territorial Cup but Graham’s job remains in question
(Photo: Nicholas Badders/WCSN) As Manny Wilkins took a final Territorial Cup-claiming knee, sealing Arizona State's 42-30 over Arizona on Saturday, ASU Vice President of University Athletics Ray Anderson gazed on from behind the north end zone of Sun Devil Stadium. The Sun Devils' athletic director had a lot to digest. His football team
ASU Football: Sun Devils ride second-half surge to down Arizona 42-30
(Photo: Nicholas Badders/WCSN) Coming into Saturday’s Territorial Cup bout, little attention seemed to be on the game itself. Instead, rumblings that the outcome wouldn’t matter for head coach Todd Graham's job security stole the spotlight from Arizona State's eventual 42-30 win over rival Arizona. With everything going on behind the scenes, it was