ASU President Michael Crow tells Doug Haller: "What we needed was a coach who understood football at the highest possible level which Coach Edwards does." Thomas Hawthorne/azcentral sports
President Michael Crow's vision for Arizona State athletics is simple: He wants each program to be its own West Point military academy. From the way they're structured, to the leaders they produce.
To Crow, that made Herm Edwards the right choice to lead ASU football into an era of higher expectations.
"I am a huge believer in contrarian approaches,'' Crow recently told azcentral sports, his first in-depth public comments on the December hire that drew criticism both locally and nationally.