The phrase is used so often it produces an eye roll from devoted Arizona State fans. Even so, it still fits, a label the university cannot shake.
"Look, ASU is the ultimate catch phrase of 'sleeping giant'," Pac-12 Networks analyst Yogi Roth said. “I’ve been on the West Coast and around the Pac-12 for 13 years but that phase is used every year. The realities are that it may be that, but in the ever-competitive Pac-12 South, where SC is always going to be ahead of everybody in recruiting. ... UCLA, which pretty much gets the next-best guys in L.