Steve Sarkisian is known for his innovative offenses, whether that was at USC under Pete Carroll , in Washington, at USC, or at Alabama before his time at Texas. And he’s had an admirer from afar in Arizona State head coach Kenny Dillingham .
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“There’s a lot of good offensive schemes out there, and then there’s offensive coaches who change their scheme and are constantly getting better,” Dillingham said Monday. “I think that’s something that he’s done as good if not better than anybody in the country is if you turned on his tape from 10 years ago, it’s going to be unrecognizable to his tape right now. That is very challenging to do when you’re successful. When you’re successful, you want to keep doing what got you successful.
“It’s very challenging to be, in my opinion, to be humble enough to constantly continually adapt to the current landscape to the rules. You can’t cut block on the perimeter, to RPOs and how they change the game in terms of substitution patterns, and now you can slow teams down that sub late. You couldn’t do that 15 years ago. He has always adapted with the game and almost been ahead of the curve a little bit, and that’s really challenging to do.”