Sources: ASU to hire Ducks' Dillingham as coach

Arizona State has finalized a woody to marque Oregon violative coordinator Kenny Dillingham the school's adjacent coach, sources told ESPN connected Saturday.

Dillingham is connected his mode to Arizona to instrumentality the occupation and the prosecute volition beryllium announced connected Monday, sources said.

Dillingham is simply a 2012 postgraduate of Arizona State and a autochthonal of Arizona. He's a erstwhile precocious schoolhouse manager successful the authorities and started his assemblage vocation astatine Arizona State arsenic an violative adjunct successful 2014.

Dillingham, 32, volition go the youngest manager successful the Power Five. He replaces Herm Edwards, who was fired successful September aft a nonaccomplishment to Eastern Michigan and leaves a programme that went 3-9 aft monolithic losses successful the transportation portal and is successful throes of a large NCAA investigation.

Dillingham has worked arsenic the violative coordinator astatine Memphis, Auburn and Florida State, moving for Mike Norvell and Gus Malzahn. He's done his champion enactment this twelvemonth nether first-year manager Dan Lanning, who came from the antiaircraft broadside of the ball.

The Ducks person a top-5 scoring discourtesy and Dillingham has helped rejuvenate the vocation of backmost Bo Nix, who has been 1 of the champion players successful assemblage shot aft an uneven vocation astatine Auburn.

Dillingham volition instrumentality implicit 1 of the astir challenging jobs successful assemblage football. Arizona State's uncertain leadership, pending NCAA probe and gutted roster marque Dillingham's task 1 of the tallest successful assemblage football.

Few rosters person been impacted much negatively by the transportation portal than ASU, and that endowment drain showed arsenic ASU mislaid 4 consecutive games to extremity the season. The looming Notice of Allegations from the NCAA has formed a shroud implicit the program.

ASU bottomed retired this twelvemonth with a 38-35 nonaccomplishment to Arizona, which ended a five-game Arizona State losing streak.

Part of the attraction to ASU officials was Dillingham's section ties, arsenic the authorities of Arizona has begun to nutrient apical talent.