Dillingham steps into a job with NCAA sanctions looming and a recruiting pipeline in need of repair.
Arizona State spent more than two months looking for a head coach but wasted no time hiring one.
There have been 26 college football seasons since Arizona State’s last Rose Bowl appearance, on Jan. 1, 1997. In that span, the Sun Devils have won at least nine games on five occasions.So the Pac-12 programs with the most difficult recruiting environments and the greatest resource challenges have, at least by that measure, been more successful over the past quarter century than Arizona State.
His ties to the school and the region are so deep that he wasn’t fazed by the looming NCAA hammer or the difficult rebuild or any of the other daunting tasks awaiting. Utah presents an annual obstacle. Washington is back. Oregon State is suddenly formidable. And Oregon’s football machinery makes the Ducks an ever-present threat.Lanning was just 35 years old and had limited experience as a Power Five coordinator when the Ducks plucked him off the Georgia staff last winter.
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