TEMPE – Sun Devil Football defensive coordinator Phil Bennett has been named as a nominee for the 2017 Broyles Award, as announced by the Frank and Barbara Broyles Foundation today. The Broyles Award annually honors college football's top assistant coaches.
A year removed from one of the worst statistical years for a Sun Devil defense in history, Bennett's guidance and decades of FBS coaching experience have led to a resurgence that has shown flashes reminiscent to the dominating ASU defenses from early in the Todd Graham tenure.
ASU is currently eighth nationally and second in the Pac-12 in averaging 3.