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LAS VEGAS — Arizona State football coach Kenny Dillingham has never been one to shy away from the media. Quite the opposite — he embraces it. The Sun Devils’ second-year head coach talks to the local media after every practice, which is not common in Division I programs.
Earlier this week he was at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas where 500 or so members of the media, local and national, gathered for the first Big 12 media event since the four schools from the Pac-12 joined the conference. Dillingham was as energetic and articulate at the end of the day as he was at the start.
Here are some quick hits on topics he talked about:
What he learned over his first year as head coach
At 34, Dillingham is the youngest head coach at an FBS school, which was also the case when he was hired at 32. Now that he completed his first year, Dillingham was asked what he learned throughout 2023. It came down to delegating some things rather than having a hand in everything.
“What I learned is I’ve got to trust the people around me to do football more, and I’ve got to remove myself a little bit from that and not get as involved in game weeks,” he said. “Just because I love it so much, it’s why you start coaching. But now that my role is different, that’s one thing I learned, I’ve got to remove myself a little bit. I have to trust if I ask someone to make Italian food and he makes chicken parmesan, that I’m going to like the chicken parmesan. I didn’t want him to make meatballs, and if I wanted him to make meatballs, I should have told him to make meatballs. And I have to trust that. I think that’s the biggest thing I learned is I’m not the smartest guy in the room and to trust people.”
Expanded coaching staff
The NCAA recently altered rules to allow coaching staffs to use those in the position of “analyst” to coach on the field, which…
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Author : AZCentral | The Arizona Republic
Publish date : 2024-07-12 13:01:55
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