No coach has walked off the field after an early preseason scrimmage and felt good about what he just witnessed. By nature, these events are sloppy, filled with missed assignments and penalties, and that was the case for Arizona State on Saturday night.
At one point, it got so bad that coach Herm Edwards had to break from script and bring his team together at the Kajikawa practice fields.
"The tempo was not good early," Edwards said. "That's why I called them up, to tell them we got to save this practice. I think at the end we saved it some.