TEMPE, Ariz. — Wearing a Jake Plummer jersey on his back and Arizona State paint on his face, Kenny Dillingham attended his first Sun Devil football game.
ASU won that day, a 19-0 stunner over then No. 1 Nebraska. The stadium was packed; the team headed to an 11-1, Rose Bowl season, one of the greatest in school history. It wasn’t long after that, Dillingham started telling people what he wanted to be when he grew up.“This was always the plan,” Dillingham said last week, sitting in a spacious office inside the Sun Devils’ plush football offices.
Dillingham attended Chaparral High School, a local power. When a knee injury ended his playing career, the then senior began his coaching career by working the junior varsity. “The kids were 15, 16,” Dillingham said. “And I’m 17.” “We are the fifth-biggest metropolitan area in the country, with one major university in a city that is a top-five growing city in the country in a place where people come to retire,” Dillingham said, in almost rapid fire. “We are the second largest university in the country that can create connections for you down the road.
“Kids see what is publicized,” he continued. “When you publicize ‘blank school’ more or ‘blank coach’ more they think, ‘I have to go.’ If kids begin to realize, ‘I don’t have to follow the narrative that if I am a five-star so I have to go play at that SEC school, I can come play here in an unbelievable situation, probably be showcased at a higher level, because I’ll be a big fish in a small pond.
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