Coaches like sports arenas to be filled up, but not for Bruce Arians in this instance.
The Cardinals coach held a press conference on Friday to announce a partnership with the Department of Child Safety to raise awareness of the need for foster and adoptive parents. Arians said the current number of kids in foster care in Maricopa County would overflow the capacity of Talking Stick Resort Arena, home of the Phoenix Suns.
“There’s over 19,000 (foster kids),” Arians said. “We need help.”
Arians and his wife, Christine, have long been advocates for foster children, raising money and awareness for them through the Arians Family Foundation.