Over the last few days, the head coaching vacancy for the Arizona State Sun Devils has played out as one would typically expect. With Herm Edwards shown the door while literally walking off of the football field on Saturday night, the ensuing hours and days have been spent with media outlets cobbling together lists of potential candidates to take over as the next head man in Tempe.
There’s one thing that I didn’t expect in all of this. I didn’t expect for the Oregon Ducks to be involved.
Usually, prominent teams like the Ducks are used to being mentioned in coaching vacancies, as top coordinators are poached to run their own teams. We saw it with Andy Avalos, and Marcus Arroyo, and Joe Moorhead, and several others over the years. This coaching staff, however, is so new, and so young, that I thought Oregon might be spared from having coordinators mentioned in coaching rumors.
Nonetheless, offensive coordinator Kenny Dillingham’s name has been mentioned in the ranks of guys who could potentially take over at Arizona State.
Seems crazy, right? He’s been an OC before, but this is his first stint as a play-caller, and the top offensive mind on a team with a defensive head coach, and he’s only got three games under his belt. Doesn’t that feel premature?
It may be, but Dillingham and his offense have been impressive early on. With an explosion on the stat sheet in the last two weeks, the Ducks’ young and aggressive OC has shown an ability to mix schemes, throw numerous personnel packages out there with success, and overall transform what was viewed as a boring Oregon offense in a matter of months. On top of all of this, you have to consider the Arizona factor for Dillingham — the 32-year-old was born in Phoenix, and he attended Arizona State and worked with the Sun Devils as an offensive analyst from 2014-15.
It’s not just us throwing Dillingham’s name out there in the mix. There are numerous pieces from high-ranking media outlets…
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