They were ripped. They were ridiculed. Arizona State did not get much slack when Herm Edwards hit the radar and then was hired to coach football some 360-odd days ago.
He was a talking head, had been for a while. Nine years on TV. Had not coached since 2008 and had not coached in college since 1989, at San Jose State.
Arizona State sent Todd Graham packing with a $12 million buyout, firing a coach with a .590 winning percentage just hours after a victory over in-state rival Arizona to hire … Herm Edwards?
Ray Anderson, the Arizona State athletic director, had been Edwards’ agent when he was in the NFL, certainly a plot twist of note, and then there were the plans for a restructured program with a new leadership model, and what exactly was that?