ASU’s Graham looking for increased tempo
Sep 4, 2012, 9:13 PM | Updated: 9:13 pm
In their season-opening win over Northern Arizona last week, the Arizona State Sun Devils’ offense racked up over 550 yards and scored eight offensive touchdowns.
You’d think that would be enough to please a coach who just guided a team to victory in his first game on the sidelines, right?
Wrong.
Todd Graham addressed the issue of tempo in his weekly press conference Monday, and was none too pleased about it.
“It was the worst thing about week one, our tempo was really, really, really slow,” Graham said. “We’re waiting on the defense. It’s like we’re being courteous to them to let them line up. We need to go.”
The Sun Devils ran a total of 71 offensive plays in their 63-6 win, but that’s not nearly enough for Graham.
“We talked about it at halftime, we were like ‘golly, we’ve got to go faster’,” he said. “What I do when we’re on offense is I watch the 40-second clock. We should snap the ball, it should say 25 or 22 seconds — that’s where we ought to be snapping it. It was going way down, it was in the teens most of the night.”
