Step one for ASU football in the post-Todd Graham era: make a big, bold hire.
Check.
Before coaching a rep, correcting a technique or calling a timeout, Herman Edwards already has raised Arizona State football to a position of national prominence that few could have imagined for a team headed to the Sun Bowl.
The program has been among the hottest conversations in sports ever since I wrote an online column Nov. 28, laying out why I believed Edwards was the logical pick to take over the program.
It was the first time the idea had received wide consideration, and the reaction was immediately negative.