Arizona State Vice President of University Athletics Ray Anderson made the decision to fire Todd Graham as the head coach of the football team on Sunday morning.
On its surface, the decision makes sense.
Graham was in Tempe for six seasons, with his second three worse than his first three. He missed a bowl game in 2016 after losing the final six games of the season, including a blowout loss to rival Arizona. This year, the Sun Devils were average, once again, going 7-5 and tying for fifth in the Pac-12 overall.
But in the aftermath of the firing, it’s important to look at what Graham meant to ASU, both as a football program and as a university.