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Hear from Head Coach Kenny Dillingham leading into the Big 12 Conference Championship as they face off against the Iowa State Cyclones.
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good afternoon go ahead how you doing Kenny hod Rabino Devil’s digest uh I know earlier in the year you talked about uh you want to see if this team does handle success and is still effective um you know as a result of that suffice to say it that at a record of a 10 and two you don’t feel like there should be like a different approach to this week just because it is the Big 12 championship game yeah no no different approach uh yeah it’s Monday Chris and Chris Cartman son of a source Kenny do you have an update on Jordan Tyson yeah Jordan’s going to be out indefinitely uh so unfortunately so we’re gonna you know I don’t want to give a complete three four month out timetable but he’s going to be out in definitely does that mean that he potentially could play if you guys go far in the I I don’t I really don’t want to comment I don’t know that the in the depth of that I just know like he’s out indefinitely and then just to follow up what does that um do with offensively yeah I mean it time to time to move some people around time to get more people on the field uh create you know probably a little more balance offensively uh and uh you know like always got to be able to run the ball have good play action so hey Kenny Ben Paris Blaze radio I want to ask you what you see your role as at at this University Beyond football we had Willie in here two weeks ago talking about he couldn’t be doing what he’s doing without you Greg said the same thing last week the whole University’s not succeeding without Kenny Missy far this week the women’s golf coach called you her Mentor that’s someone who’s been here for a decade has won a national championship what’s it like to hear that from your colleagues and how would you describe what that role is yeah I don’t really think about it like that I just try to be me and that’s really it I don’t like look at that side of it just go and be a good person make good decisions and have more fun working harder than anybody in the country like that’s how I look at it every single day and is that going to happen every day no am I going to yell at people sometimes yeah I mean I’m sorry it’s going to happen but uh you know I just be the same person every day and hopefully it impacts the people around you so uh it’s cool to hear that but I don’t really know uh what the impact is I do know football I do know Sports is a great connector it’s one of the best connectors in here at this University we’re trying to create Infinity within our uh you know our University we’re trying to get more people back involved one of the largest universities and we’re trying to get more of the alumni back involved back in games I think we have over 20,000 alumni in Dallas or Texas and trying to get them out to the game like we’re and football is a great connector and when you can connect people through sport it’s special because the emotions that Sports create so I do think what what we can provide with football what our program can provide is the connecting of people in ways that you know academics cannot Jord Ryan hey Kenny Jordan ham Sports 360 a when Jordan’s not on the field what’s the toughest part of his game to replace uh well he’s a really good player and then he’s very physical I mean he blocks people well like nobody’s not many people highlight thought I saw a few people highlight his blocks on social media which we awesome because I think that’s what really has been separating our team is how hard we play all 11 not just you know the blockers don’t just block everybody blocks you know the white outs Don’t just run watch Leaf chase the ball right it’s everybody’s doing the things that are extraordinary and what definitely makes it more difficult is obviously he demands two people to cover him so if people don’t have to to demand two people um then they can load the box so you got to find more creative ways to win those one-on-one matchups and then after the UCF game you said kaon could take a lot from that game and learn from it what have you seen him apply to his game that went from the UCF game to what he did on Saturday at Arizona I I don’t know anything specifically that I saw that was like different uh I thought we had a good plan for running the ball and I thought our o line moved people our wi outs blocked on the edge and then he made people Miss I mean that sounds really like simple but like that’s the game of football and uh I don’t know if there’s something different I just think he’s going to get slowly better and more comfortable seeing things uh every carry he gets and I think he went for over 100 yards over 10 or 11 and a half or something like that yards per carry I mean that’s incredible Ryan Doug and jcia hey coach Ryan Myers Devil’s digest uh you guys have pushed the Texas to Tempe message for a long time with trying to get recruits in the door and everything like that and with this game being in Dallas and one of the big cities in the state what does that one mean for you and do you guys have any plan on trying to maybe get even more pull from Dallas or Phoenix or Dallas natives trying to maybe get people that want to are interested in ASU and coming over uh I mean it just that’s why we’re making it why two years ago when I got the job here you know we made an emphasis on recruiting the state of Texas is because we knew or I felt like the the direction of college football was us towards the Big 12 us towards the Big 12 which means we play games in Texas we play games in Oklahoma right which means it’s easier to recruit the state so uh I do think playing a game there and being you know televised there being one of the things on the Billboards there is huge for the brand of Arizona State football but just Arizona State as a university like you alluded to for All Sports uh being in the Metroplex in that area uh will it do more in terms of that stuff I I don’t know what I hope uh is Big Time alumni from that region show up to the game and maybe somebody who hasn’t been to a game in 12 years or 10 years or eight years shows up to the game and we get them back engaged going back to what we said earlier football’s a great and sports are a great connector and I think this is an opportunity to connect people back to the program that have maybe been disconnected for years Jak Garcia Jake Kenny I I believe when you guys left uh the stadium on Saturday you were not aware of whether or not Texas te lost or won or whatever can you kind of paint the picture of what that was like when you guys learned on the way back to the valley that you guys were indeed in the Big 12 championship game yeah so I uh had Jason uh Sho servero I’ve been saying his name wrong forever he hasn’t corrected me somebody else corrected me how about that you got to correct me if I say you’re a wrong I don’t know if you don’t tell me uh but uh he uh he I asked him to go through all the scenarios after the game and give them to me so we kind of had a clue so I was I was watching the games on the way home on the bus I always ride the defensive bus so we were riding the defensive bus and uh right when the game was put away and TCU won I made an announcement to the guys that um you know were in the Big 12 title and they were pretty fired up and you know it didn’t matter you know the opponent we were going to play the whole goal was to get there and that’s all we could control and then uh you kind of woke up in the morning and found out who we got to play we’re like 45 minutes away there was that that accident on the road on the way back so we kind of got stuck Jake oh sorry that Jake that Jake Kenny Jake Garcia 12 News uh quick question about AT&T Stadium there’s been examples this year of a window creating immense glare During certain hours of the day in Dallas it’s blinded CD lamb a few points this season uh curious if you have any thoughts of that what you make of it and then a followup uh after that no clue okay um secondly uh Matt Campbell at Iowa State won three games in his first season he’s been over 500 in every year since then um what do you make just of the sustained success that he’s had it’s one thing of course to turn a program around another thing to repeat that for years to come yeah his culture and his uh realness I think he’s one of the most just real people in the sport I mean you see the passion emotion on the sideline like you see it like it’s not fake it’s real and uh when I was at Auburn I had the ability when I was the Y at Auburn I had the ability to go study at one program in the country I had two days that at that time coach mileson would let you go and study with the team and uh I alluded to this versus Cincinnati because his the defensive coordinator Cincinnati was the linebacker coach at Iowa State and I chose to go visit Iowa state that was the program that I wanted to study from because I thought that they were overachieving at that time early in his career at a high level before he had built it up now he’s built built it up now they’re achieving at a high level consistently and uh I wanted to go just study and what I took away was like the the realness of the culture I was like man like he’s over here like joking around with a dude and then he gets in the front of the room and demands respect and I’m like man this this culture that he created I feel like is sustainable I feel like this is a winning formula so all the x’s and the O’s I learned and and I studied that stuff but I was really trying to get a Vibe and a feel for how did he create that culture and he was one of the youngest head coaches at the time he was one of the youngest head coaches in the country at Toledo uh before he got to Iowa State and I think his genuiness is infectious and I think that’s why he’s had that success is I think he’s just a a real person I think he’s a good person that’s real and I think the guys see his passion and saw his vision Because He Lives it m hey coach uh Jake slow and Devil’s di just over here sorry uh the last time you got in a force a turnover was against Kansas so seven consecutive games set in the regular season of forc in a turnover what does that do for the offense to keep those opposing defenses out there and break them down and wear them down over the course of the game yeah obviously possession of the ball like you can’t score without the ball so the longer we have it I know some people don’t agree with that but I I still believe there’s some power in the ball uh and possessing the ball and keeping a defense on the field and keeping your defense off the field staying fresh so it’s been huge for us turnover margins obviously uh it’s one of the the strengths of the team we’re about to play Iowa State as well so uh we got to be hopefully better than them at taking care of the football and they’re going to hopefully be better than us Max Colin Dam hey Kenny Max P Arizona’s family good to see you obviously it seems very glaring that the winner of this game is going to be the only Big 12 representative in the 12 team playoff what have you kind of just seen over these last few weeks as the national attention is just grown and grown and grown and you have been very vocal of just making sure that none of the players necessarily try to pay attention to that as much what have you tried to tell them about the idea of this team being the best team in this conf in in this conference which is a new look which is 16 teams now and trying to necessarily try to set that standard of being like no we could be the best program in this conference which has a new look for years to come I’ve never talked about it like let’s go we get to play another game I mean I that’s what I said now you can play for a championship but like best team just because you win a conference doesn’t make you the best team team in the conference makes you you won the most games in the conference that that’s why there’s so much volatility I mean at the end of the day I guess winning is the determining factor for best teams you know but uh I think what our goal is is to be the very best version of oursel R Pete I’m going to say that from now till forever and then people are going to get really bored of asking those questions because I want to say the same thing for a long time it’s like it’s be the very best version of us after the game I said congratulations we won this is awesome celebrate who are we going to play next I don’t even know if we’re in the title game I don’t care we’re going to play another game let’s be the best version of us when we play him no and then following up on that then what is the significance you would say of winning a conference Championship is it not to be the best team in the conference what is the significance of winning it I think it’s a reward for success for finding ways to win right finding ways best teams don’t always win the most talented teams don’t always win right but the way we Define sport is through winning and if you can find ways to win that’s the reward is winning finding different ways to win and I think that’s the fun part is we’ve gotten here we’re in a position to compete and win a championship not many people can can say that at this time of year only two teams in our league can say that they’ve put themselves in position to win a championship and that’s the significance is it’s the about all the challenges to get to this point that you’re one game away from accomplishing something uh that people said couldn’t be done that that’s significant and I think that’s the significance is finding ways to win I’ve never looked at it like oh you’re the best team you’re the worst team nobody really cares who’s the team that won and repeat repeat repeat find ways different ways to continue to win Dam can you are there any programs or coaches that you don’t have connections to at this point oh I have a I actually don’t know I like I don’t have connections to Utah I don’t have connections to BYU I don’t have connections to Kansas State I don’t have connections to most people uh to be honest uh I just respect them from afar uh I don’t have many I don’t dislike many people and that’s just not my personality like I take I try to take something from everybody everybody’s gotten to the position that they are because they’re really good at something and what can you learn from everybody that you go verse and what can you take from everybody that you go verse and try to take a little a little bit of that into your own program from what you’ve watched of Iowa State this year I mean what’s the identity of this year’s team and what’s the biggest challenge that they POs to you guys on Saturday physicality like put a fullback in put a tight end into the boundary and we’re going to run toss G lead on First and 10 let’s go stop it and if you load the box we have two big we have a big wide out 2,000 yard wide outs we’re going to throw it to so play one high we throw it to these guys play two high we’re going to run G lead right at you and do it again and do it again and do it again and then find a different way to do the same thought process it’s uh there’s a clear identity and the best teams in the country have a clear identity and when you watch this team play the toughness the physicality across the board uh is the clear identity that they have in the program sorry and last one do you guys do anything different just in terms of early kickoff do you guys do a walk through at J you get in Friday night though uh we We’ll add a little bit it’s good question well you we usually do a walk through Saturday morning but with the early kickoff and the time change our guys are already going to have to wake up at roughly 5:45 a.m. our time uh to adjust to this time change which that’s part of it uh so we’re probably going to have to move our walkth through shorten it and move it to Friday night which we don’t normally do anything when we get to the hotel on Friday but we will this week because of the schedule hey Kenny Dam all R Arizone sports with how long program rebuilds can take at times um how rewarding is it knowing that the guys who started the culture shift with you like Cam and X that they’re able to experience success before they’re gone yeah it’s super cool to see that to see X come on these last two weeks and make critical plays Super rewarding for him we’re going to need more of those plays this week and uh to see Cam’s name you know on list to be in the top 10 for the Heisman is awesome I mean I think he’s number two or something in the entire country in yards from scrimmage right now uh I mean that’s remarkable I mean when you talk about the Heisman Trophy you talk about impact right it’s most I think it’s the most impactful player or the best player I don’t know exactly what the clear definition is it goes back and forth a little bit but I don’t know of a player who makes a bigger impact on a program he took a team that won three games and now they’ve won 10 that takes on his exact identity of him as a person which is passionate intense physical tough the team’s taken on that identity as a program which has completely changed the trajectory of the program an he’s put up unreal stats that um I think I think he’s going to be one of a hundred people potentially in the history of uh college football to put up another stat I saw about rece 200,000 yards from scrimmage or something one of the other guys I coached in the past it’s like what he’s accomplished is something special and I think he should be talked about for that uh whether he should win it or not I mean there’s two guys that are unbelievable right now uh but whether he should be in the conversation I don’t think that’s a question and then quick what gives you confidence that the culture can maintain after they’re gone uh hopefully their attention of players your culture is your players like I am not the culture the players are the culture right and the retention of players is what keeps the culture alive so uh the retention of players guys coming back and then the recruitment of guys that want to fit this culture not the recruitment of the best players but the recruitment of the best players for us which are two different things hey Kenny Blake nean sevil Source um you’ve been a lot of different places a lot of different Elite programs in your career is this the most special thing you’ve been a part of in your football career this year yeah this is pretty cool uh uh as a team this is this is probably the coolest thing I’ve been a part of um watching Jordan Travis in my second year go from a guy that didn’t think he could wanted to move positions out of the quarterback room to being a guy that people didn’t believe in to then being the Savior was probably most individual cool thing I’ve ever seen in my career was this kid completely transform his life uh into now a guy who plays on Sundays when he didn’t even think he was a quarterback at one time that was the most individually like for a player person to person gratifying thing I’ve ever seen uh second would have been the bow scenario which was a very similar situation see go from where he went from to like w he’s in the Heisman race this is the coolest thing I’ve ever been a part of from a team this is a special team like this is a very very unique and special football team that we have here what makes it so special and so meaningful to you I just think the guys and the work they’ve put in and the relationships they have with one another is unique in an era where every a lot of things are uh you know there’s different motives than there used to be I think our guys’ motive being being winning and like the competitive nature of like I just want to win that is like that sounds so fundamental but like there’s so many other distractions now and it’s not the guy’s fault and there’s nothing wrong with those distractions that like wow they just want to win and what I’m excited for is because they had that mindset I think they’re all going to be individually rewarded and that I think is what college sports is about it’s look you can come together for a greater cause and then seek individual reward at the same time I think that’s the message that college sports can send out where other people say all these kids are transferring all this I want to create that message of man you can do this together and receive individual rewards that’s what it’s meant to be and uh I think our team has that mindset and I’m hoping to then give those individual Awards and get these guys those individual Awards and accolades and all the things they want individually because of that mindset that they’ put together this year uh Kenny you mentioned the 2000 scrimmage yards Henderson did that in 2018 obviously the um how important is that to an offense and how ingrained is that in you with Mike norell and what happened here with Maran Grace and DJ Foster yeah I think anytime that your running back can be a weapon out of the back field uh it just creates another element and I think we always from now till forever want to have a back who can become a pass catcher catch the ball out of the back field be a weapon uh and you want to give the dude the football uh you want an elite back and I think that’s one thing that we’ll always have here uh is a back that can play on Sundays you know I’ve been blessed to coach a lot of those guys I mean a lot coach aguano coached a lot and I think this is one of I can say this with confidence there’s not many places better in the country right now to be a skill player you’re a wide out or a tight end you have a quarterback who’s going to play on Sundays throwing you the ball for two years uh if you’re a running back uh you have four lineman that can return behind a guy who just was up for the Heisman I don’t know much better situation somebody could walk into from a skill position player than those two than that situation hey coach um it seems like your wide receivers blocking has been an emphasis this entire year so I’m just curious from your perspective how that’s kind of evolved from mississipp now yeah I mean I have a question what do you why do you think our wide receiver blocking is really really good yeah yeah Hines Ward baby when you have a guy who lived it and did it and smiled when he did it and blocked you into the cooler and then smiled again and then caught 10,000 yards and 100 touchdowns and he tells you if you want the ball You Better Block you’re going to block if he told me to block I’d probably go block somebody like that’s just the respect you got to have for what he’s accomplished and then how he operates as a football coach so it’s that mindset that he’s instilled u in that group is is uniquely special Jordan then Ben Kenny with the uh change in schedule in the uh Signing Day how does that affect how you guys do things and what one more thing on a already busy week yeah I mean it’s a lot going on uh it just adds more stuff how does it change how we do things like I tell our coaches it’s everybody’s got a recruit everybody knows I’m a like recruiting is the lifeblood of the program but at the end of the day it’s about your own players and I always tell our guys that like it’s always the priority is the guys who chose to come here so yes is their Shin day Wednesday yes do we have to recruit yes is the portal opening yes is that the backbone of the program and we have to do that of course but should that take one minute of time away from how you should prepare to pour everything in to these players in this game absolutely not because it’s our duty to be the best we can be for the guys who choose to be here and if you choose to be here we’re going to pour everything we gotten to you we’re not going to go and say ah you know what this recruit’s here and I know you wanted to meet but I’m going to go meet with this recruit because I’m worried about next year we’re going to pour everything we have to you if you choose to come here and if you don’t choose to come here then you don’t but we’re going to pour everything we got into our players repeat repeat repeat and then whatever kids come here for everything we have to them and that’s going to be our mindset it’s always about the kid in our roster and I really believe if you treat your own people well they’ll recruit for you I want to ask you about Shaman mat who’s matched all of his career numbers from three years in another program this season to go back to what you just said about SC positions what has he added to the offense and how would you describe his playing style both blocking and obviously catching the football yeah he’s very versatile he’s a big dude but he’s very physical uh he’s one of the best if not the best blocking tight him and T furg up at Oregon two of the best blocking tight ends I’ve ever been around uh so his physicality and toughness is unbelievable and then his ability to stretch the field and me catch touchdowns catch screens uh I joke about Coach Roy I’m like man we get in the Red Zone like it’s like get him the ball time like golly and you do block block block block touchdown like that’s nice uh but uh it’s just he’s he’s vital to the team and he’s great for the culture too I mean he loves ball absolutely loves it and he’s physical and physical at that tight end position which is becoming a rare breed thank you for
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