Sun Devils are doomed

[Bardamu911]

now Figueroa is out til December, Schultz wrestles like a top 5 opponent is just an post practice open mat casual roll. What's going on in Tempe. 

Also, did Kaleb Larkin spontaneously combust? He's supposed to be an AA candidate, where is he???

[ionel]

The devils flying too close to the sun.  

[Jimmy Cinnabon]

Not to mention all their top guys are getting poached by Iowa (Parco and Teemer)

[Bardamu911]

13 minutes ago, Jimmy Cinnabon said:

(Parco and Teemer)

thanks for clarifying which guys you were referring to

[wrestle87]

Even Zahid left.

 

[SunDevil]

Just waiting on Bo to commit. 

[Tripnsweep]

ASU lost their biggest and possibly only financial backer of wrestling. The writing is on the wall. No more Sunkist money flowing in, scant NIL deals that go through the ASU "collective", which given that the football coach has basically performed a miracle by tripling the win total from each of the last two seasons and has them in the discussion for being in the playoffs, he is going to get whatever of it he asks for. Certain people saw that there should have been a change a few years ago and it was strongly hinted this would happen, but nobody did anything to try to avoid it. If Figueroa stays next year I'll be shocked. ASU is sadly going to regress a lot unless they somehow get Bassett to commit and sign. 

[nhs67]

8 hours ago, Tripnsweep said:

ASU lost their biggest and possibly only financial backer of wrestling. The writing is on the wall. No more Sunkist money flowing in, scant NIL deals that go through the ASU "collective", which given that the football coach has basically performed a miracle by tripling the win total from each of the last two seasons and has them in the discussion for being in the playoffs, he is going to get whatever of it he asks for. Certain people saw that there should have been a change a few years ago and it was strongly hinted this would happen, but nobody did anything to try to avoid it. If Figueroa stays next year I'll be shocked. ASU is sadly going to regress a lot unless they somehow get Bassett to commit and sign. 

This isn't accurate.

Whoever orchestrated ASU to the B12 after the B1G poached the P12's top four teams is the person responsible for the jump.

ASU 2024-25 Schedule so far...
Result - Opponent (W/L)
W48-7 - Wyoming (2W - 9L)
W30-23 - Mississippi State (2W - 9L)
W31-28 - Texas State (6W - 5L)
L30-22 - Texas Tech (7W - 4L)
W35-31 - Kansas (5W - 6L)
W27-19 - Utah (4W - 7L)
L24-14 - Cincinnati (5W - 6L)
W42-21 - Oklahoma State (3W - 8L)
W35-21 - UCF (4W - 7L)
W24-13 - Kansas State (8W - 3L)
W28-23 - BYU (9W - 2L)
Total OPP W-L, 55W - 66L
Avg Opp W-L, 5.0W - 6.0L

AS 2023-24 Schedule...
W49-0 - Southern Utah (7W - 5L), FCS opponent who finished 4th in their conference)
L27-15 - Oklahoma State (10W - 4L)
L29-0 - Fresno State (9W - 4L)
L42-28 - USC (8W - 5L)
L24-21 - California (6W - 7L)
L27-24 - Colorado (4W - 8L)
L15-7 - Washington (14W - 1L)
W38-27 - Washington State (5W - 7L)
L55-3 - Utah (8W - 5L)
W17-7 - UCLA (8W - 5L)
L49-13 - Oregon (12W - 2L)
L59-23 - Arizona (10W - 3L)
Total Opp W-L, 101W - 56L
Avg Opp W-L, 8.4W - 4.7L

Vastly different schedules.  Yes, give the coach credit, but the person/persons who orchestrated ASU -> B12 are the real magicians.  Whether you want to give USC/UCLA and/or Oregon/Washington credit or the B1G in general... but had ASU had to play the same schedule it doesn't go nearly as well for them as their current 9W - 2L would indicate.

[BloodRound]

Figs moving on by next year would not shock me.  Why Schultz continues to come back for ASU and not shift his focus towards Greco is a mystery to me.  The gap between him and the top 3 at this point is colossal.