First-year Arizona State co-offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach Rob Likens understands the significance of parental figures being involved in the lives of children and young adults. He also knows the obligation of parenthood can be a blessing, too, and not one to be taken for granted.
His son, Nicolas Cutter, is a daily reminder of that.
Cutter, 7, is the lone child born to Likens and his wife, Soni. Likens said during an interview in April that the couple had unsuccessfully tried for 12 years to have kids before having him.
“We had some setbacks,” he said.