Danny Sullivan will remain Arizona State’s starting quarterback for Saturday’s game against Washington State, coach Dennis Erickson said Monday.
Erickson said Sullivan “did some awfully good things” in last Saturday’s 28-17 loss to Oregon State. “He threw it and successfully managed the game pretty well. He did nothing in that game to take away from being the starter in my opinion.”
Erickson also pointed out that, “Sullivan didn’t lose the football game by any means. Everybody was involved with that.”
Sullivan was 32 of 58 for 338 yards, with one touchdown and one interception.
Erickson didn’t rule out the possibility of freshman Brock Osweiler playing against the Cougars this Saturday. He said he would make that decision later in the week.
Sullivan was much more composed Monday than he was after the Oregon State loss. He said he received moral support from family members, friends and teammates the last 48 hours and paid no attention to what was being written or said about him.
Sullivan was appreciative of Erickson’s support - “it means a lot,” - but acknowledged that he has to improve to hold onto the starting job.
“Am I going to pick myself up and get better or continue not to play the way I want to play?” he said. “On crucial downs I’m not helping the football team win. It’s frustrating. That’s not the way I want to play. That’s not the way I intended it to be. I’ve got to get better and help this team.”
Erickson said he knows fans are clamoring for Osweiler but that, “when it comes to football decisions, I think I’ll make those.”
In other ASU news:
Defensive end Dexter Davis, the only player in the country to have double-digit sacks the last two years, doesn’t have a sack after four games this season.
Erickson said teams are keeping a tight end or running back in to help block Davis.
“If I was playing us, that’s what I would do,” he said.
Erickson said he doesn’t expect to get injured linemen Matt Hustad (knee) or Zach Schlink (knee) back this week, but center Garth Gerhart (toe) will play, and safety Ryan McFoy (foot) should be back as well.
Sullivan still the starterOctober 5th, 2009, 12:09 pm · 2 Comments · posted by Scott Bordow2 CommentsLeave a Reply |
With the economic catastrophe that has his this state, coupled with falling athletic revenues, DE’s handling of this program will soon make the athletic program at ASU expendible.
Just end it now, rather than suffer the slow death.
We will soon see attendance in the 20,000’s before long. Sun Devil football has many great memories, but now is irrelevant. ASU can probably profit more by selling DVD’s of great games and memories of the past. The present and future offers nothing. We are now in a new age.
Tom Rivas is a fool. ASU’s atheletic program will never be ‘expedible’. You should ‘end yourself now’ - you moron… You are irrlevant - ASU football and ASU athletics will be around long after your sorry *ss has gone away.