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From Chaparral to ASU: Best friends, Coach Kenny & Coach Ragle, work together again

12Sports Cameron Cox talks to Coach Kenny and Coach Ragle about the beginning of their friendship and it all started at Chaparral High School.

PHOENIX — How about them Devils? ASU in a conference title game for the first time since 2013. 

What a turnaround for the Sun Devils From picked to finished dead last in the Big 12 in July, to finishing the regular season in first place, and playing for a Big 12 Championship and a spot in the College Football Playoff.

Head coach Kenny Dillingham has lived up to his first day on the job promise to activate the Valley. 

I remember being in that room in 2022. You believed him because you could feel is passion for our community. He’s a valley boy, his family grew up in Arizona, he went to ASU, and he married his high school sweetheart who was also a Sun Devil. 

Some people had their doubts about giving a then 32-year-old his first head coaching job, but if you ask the person who gave it to him, ASU Assistant Head Coach and Special Teams Coordinator Charlie Ragle, this was always part if the plan. 

Cameron Cox talks to Coach Kenny and Coach Ragle about the beginning of their friendship and it all started at Chaparral High School.

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