For subscribers: The last thing Jedd Fisch needs is for ASU to build a Top 25 program under Kenny Dillingham, a 32-year-old offensive coordinator who grew up in Scottsdale, graduated from ASU and got his start in college coaching on…
Greg Hansen I asked Jedd Fisch what he thought about new ASU football coach Kenny Dillingham and the last thing I expected him to say was:"I’ve heard a lot of good things about him."True to the biting Territorial Cup rivalry, Fisch simply said:"I don't know the guy they hired."None of the last six football coaches hired by Arizona State worked out in the long haul.
The Pac-12 isn’t getting any easier. The Big Four — USC, Washington, Oregon and Utah — aren’t likely to fall back to the pack. The Sun Devils are taking a significant risk by hiring Dillingham, but ASU has history on his side. The youngest head coach hired to coach Pac-12 football the last 50 years was UCLA's 32-year-old Terry Donahue.
And Utah hired 34-year-old Salt Lake City native Tom Lovatt — a Utes grad and assistant coach — to run its football program in 1974. He was considered a defensive genius, a rising star. He went 5-28 and was fired."I’m the least patient person in the world," he said Monday."We all want to win it now."
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