ASU Football: 5 Questions That Need to be Answered

ASU Football has a lot of questions to answer next season, here are 5 that I would like answered.

Feel free to comment below with questions that you would like answered, or if you would like to have a discussion about ASU football. I am always open to a good conversation!

1. When will ASU win the Pac-12 South?

Every single season ASU football has a way to make everyone think that this will be the season where they win the Pac-12 South and play for the coveted Pac-12 title.

Every single season ASU fans are left in disappointment as there is some other team representing the Pac-12 South. The time has come for ASU to stop telling everyone they are going to win the Pac-12 South and to just do it already!

2. Is Todd Graham in it for the long haul?

One thing that I have personally always hated about college football is how often coaches freely move from team to team. Todd Graham always seems like he is not committed to ASU and is just waiting for a bigger opportunity to open up and leave.

I know that he is loved by the ASU fan base, but I am not convinced that he feels the same way about ASU. Yes, he did give money to help the remodeling of Sun Devil Stadium but that still doesn’t convince me that he is going to be with ASU forever. I want a coach that loves ASU and this will be a big year for Todd Graham to show that he has ASU tattooed on his heart.

3. Why does ASU seem to regress in the middle of the season?

Last season was a very weird season for ASU football. In the middle of the season they seemed to take a huge step backwards when they looked like they had begun to find their identity as a team. They had just put together two wins, the first one at UCLA and the second one home against Colorado.

They then went to a very good but beatable Utah team and completely forgot everything they had learned about themselves the two previous weeks. ASU Football is like the creative team of a TV show. They stay on one story line for two episodes and then they decide that they don’t like it so they end it before it becomes something great.

4. Can we have a quarterback this season that looks the part?

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I am sorry, but Mike Bercovici did not look the part of a quarterback. He looked the part of the kid that tried out to be kicker and was given a spot because he was just too nice to cut. I have nothing against Bercovici, I just want a quarterback who looks like a quarterback.

Give me the guy that actually gets upset when he throws an interception. Not the guy who just walks off the field with his mouthpiece still in like that one kid on every youth team who knew they screwed up and took the walk of shame off the field when they were subbed out. Just give me a quarterback who knows how to locate receivers and I will be happy.

5. What is up with it taking 40 minutes for smoke to clear out of Sun Devil Stadium?

Am I the only person who has noticed this? For those of you who have never been to an ASU game in person let me explain the situation. The entrance/pump up video for ASU is awesome, it features Sparky basically turning into the BFG, but at the end there are fireworks and he appears in the middle of the field.

About this time, the football team sprints onto the field and fireworks go off around them, moral of the story: lots of fireworks. So after this way too expensive entrance the smoke from the fireworks linger inside the stadium. But the smoke stays for more than just 5 minutes, it stays long enough that you have to turn around to make sure the person behind you isn’t smoking because of how long smoke has been in your face.

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They need to either use fewer fireworks, which we all know isn’t happening,(or else they would have to lower the cost of the football games, god forbid) so what they need to do is have some fans or something to blow the smoke out of the stadium. Maybe the smoke is the reason that the offense had such a hard time last season.

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