Not a good look for Herm either way...he was either so hands off he didn't know any of this was going on OR he was in the middle of it and all of his "do it the right way" posturing was just that, fake posturing. What a mess.
I think the bigger story is the potential dysfunction within the ASU program in which someone was either 1) leveraging extremely strong ethics aligning to the NCAA rules and whistleblow and/or 2) someone potentially unhappy and retaliating by throwing the whole program under the bus.
I read this article last night. If true it's damning for the Sun Devils. Herm Edwards hands off CEO style may come to haunt him and Antonio Pierce probably wrecked his career. Yahoo Sports does have a way of being overly dramatic on scandal stories, but in this case it's hard not to see that what ASU did repetitively is about as bad as it gets.
A “Bay Area prospect - who enrolled at a rival PAC-12 school” was recorded and analyzed by ASU coaches in violation of the rules.
There’s not a lot of recruits who fit that bill, and, of that group, the Cal roster holds the majority.
Not a good look for Herm either way...he was either so hands off he didn't know any of this was going on OR he was in the middle of it and all of his "do it the right way" posturing was just that, fake posturing. What a mess.
I think the bigger story is the potential dysfunction within the ASU program in which someone was either 1) leveraging extremely strong ethics aligning to the NCAA rules and whistleblow and/or 2) someone potentially unhappy and retaliating by throwing the whole program under the bus.
Very weird IMHO.
I read this article last night. If true it's damning for the Sun Devils. Herm Edwards hands off CEO style may come to haunt him and Antonio Pierce probably wrecked his career. Yahoo Sports does have a way of being overly dramatic on scandal stories, but in this case it's hard not to see that what ASU did repetitively is about as bad as it gets.