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Bickley: Good times ahead if ASU football can walk the talk

Nobody talks better than Todd Graham. Few talk longer. If oration was an Olympic sport, he’d win all the endurance medals. That’s why his voice is always croaky, in a perpetual state of overuse.

So it began at 7 a.m. Monday, when Graham addressed the Arizona State football program. He sounded like a car engine on a cold morning in Buffalo. Until something lit his fire.

“Get your eyes up here,” he hissed.

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He demanded full attention. He called out unnamed members of his staff, accusing them of looking down and tuning out.