Kenny Dillingham Discusses Utah Matchup, Resiliency More

The Arizona State head coach was once again available to media following Tuesday's practice.

Sep 26, 2025; Tempe, Arizona, USA; Arizona State Sun Devils head coach Kenny Dillingham looks on against TCU Horned Frogs in the second half at Mountain America Stadium, Home of the ASU Sun Devils. Mandatory Credit: Jacob Reiner-Imagn Images | Jacob Reiner-Imagn Images

TEMPE -- Arizona State head coach Kenny Dillingham gifted media an encore to his weekly press conference on Monday - once again making himself available Tuesday following a triumphant victory over TCU last Friday.

Dillingham discussed the coaching staff, potential preparations for the Utah Utes, and the traditional discussions based around individual players - to watch the availability, view below.

Below is a partial transcript of the exchange.

"Yeah. I mean, I think him (DL coach Diron Reynolds) and Vince have conflicting personalities a lot on the field. So that's what you want. You want guys who you know they're not, you know, copy paste of each other. You want guys with different personalities, different backgrounds, because they can add value in different ways.

If everybody is the same, or if everybody comes from the same coaching tree or the same system, or the same way or beliefs, then you're going to get stagnant. So I want people around me that are like, What are you doing, going for that? Why did you do this? Or how are we coaching this? Why do you do it that way? That's how you become better, because you have good conversations."

"You know, we're not the same team. You know, we have the resilience and the confidence. I think last year's team was a little more fun. Little more vocal, and this year's team, you could probably see, you know, the resilience more than here, where it's more like a calming resilience. And I don't know if that's just because our guys have confidence, whereas before, they were trying to, like, force the confidence. Now they may just have it, or if it's just different personalities. So I think we still have that resilience. We just have a little bit different personality of a team."

"Yeah, it's great. I mean, that'll play to your players strengths, and right now, they're one of our strengths, which is good, you know, hopefully we get some guys back, which I'll talk about next week, and stuff like that, that'll help us play to more strengths. Right now, we're pretty limited with personnel groupings. Hopefully we'll be able to expand upon that."

Read more on major takeaways from Arizona State's clutch-time victory over TCU here, and more on why Arizona State fans should be feeling confident about the outlook of the season following the win here.

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