Arizona State football: Herm Edwards experiment has arrived

Arizona State football is in an extremely odd place right now. Will the Sun Devils rise up or fall back to the bottom of the Pac-12 South?

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Despite making one of the most baffling hires I’ve ever seen in college football, Arizona State will still play college football this season. It’s going to be strange, and there’s almost no way it works, but they’re going to try.

Herm Edwards is the new head coach at Arizona State. I don’t know why, or how, but he is, and he will have at least one season to prove his worth. After six years of being solid but never great under Todd Graham, Arizona State decided they were tired of normal.

Enter Herm. After more than a decade out of coaching, and more than 20 years after his last job in college football, the former Jets head man is back, and ready to lead the Sun Devils. Maybe.

Of all the weirdness this offseason, the strangest thing may be the original firing of Graham. He wasn’t great or anything, but he won 10 games in back to back seasons just three years ago. Three straight middling seasons were obviously something to worry about, but the firing of Graham still didn’t make a ton of sense.

Whether or not it made sense doesn’t really matter though, because it’s done now. Herm takes over a team that won seven games last season, and while a lot of the defense is gone, the offense is a different story.