All ASU football fans could do prior to the 2008 season was peek at the schedule. Home games against Georgia, Oregon. Road trips to Cal, USC then UA.
There was so much to clamor for.
There was so much potential for a program that has been on the ledge for so long. Now fans want to jump off for different reasons.
Losing to Georgia was expected. USC too.
But after dropping games to a flawed Cal team and an out-of-nowhere UNLV squad – which just lost to Colorado State, by the way – is the season already over?
Season two with coach Dennis Erickson has not gone as planned.
On two separate occasions, Erickson’s postdefeat explanations seemed foggy.
He told the media that yards were not indicative of rushing success and that his defense played a good second half after it yielded 17 straight first-half points.
The football team is 2-3, folks.
Suddenly, an absent middle linebacker and a hobbling quarterback seem like nonissues.
Suddenly, those early-season wins against NAU and Stanford look pretty important.
