Some previous feedback from former Arizona State soccer coach Herm Edwards have resurfaced on social media within the wake of ASU’s postseason bowl ban.
And the feedback have fired up Solar Devils followers, who’re irate at how new coach Kenny Dillingham and his gamers — who had nothing to do with the recruiting allegations and investigations surrounding the Arizona State program — are being punished for it.
The feedback?
In 2017, Edwards, then an analyst for ESPN, mentioned this a few scandal involving the College of Louisville soccer program.
“When the pinnacle coach says I did not know, I am like, no, no, no, that is your job to know,” Edwards mentioned on ESPN. “Your identify is on this program. The assistant coaches, they arrive and go. Your identify is on this system. That turns into your legacy.”
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These feedback have been very totally different from some feedback Edwards made on Arizona Sports activities’ 98.7 FM in February 2022.
On the Bickley and Marotta Present, Edwards mentioned he does not “micromanage” and that you must “belief” individuals when requested if his loyalty had probably been taken benefit of by earlier members of his teaching workers.
He mentioned: “I really feel this manner, that whenever you delegate accountability you must belief individuals. I dwell in a world like that. I grew up this manner. I do not micromanage individuals. I perceive what’s going on for essentially the most half, however on the finish of the day, soccer is about belief, by the way in which. This sport is constructed on belief. … Folks within the circle you have to belief one another that they’re going to do their job. If they do not, you possibly can’t run the play. It does not operate that means … Sports activities is all about belief. It is in regards to the individuals that you simply belief which might be going to do their jobs appropriately and in the appropriate means.”
However wasn’t it your identify on this system as the pinnacle coach, Herm Edwards, not your assistants?
Edwards was finally fired by Arizona State final season and returned to his job as an analyst at ESPN.
Arizona State employed Dillingham as the brand new coach after final season.
Arizona State athletic director Ray Anderson introduced that the Solar Devils have been self-imposing a bowl ban for this season on Sunday, which earned this system a variety of criticism from media members, who needed to know why ASU did not impose the bowl ban final season, however that’s a wholly totally different story.
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Social media slams former ASU coach Herm Edwards for obvious hypocrisy with Louisville feedback:
Looking back, how do you’re feeling about Edwards’ feedback?
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