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Keller Cackles as Koetter Canned

Posted Nov 26, 2006 5:44PM By Brian Cook (RSS feed)

Filed Under: Pac 10, NCAA FB Coaching

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Koetter foreground; Keller background.

Raise your hand if you thought deposed Arizona State (now Nebraska) quarterback Sam Keller would last longer in college football than Dirk Koetter. Other than you, Sam. Well, you all get a cookie. Despite Arizona State managing to squeak into a bowl this year it's off with Koetter's head after yet another promising Arizona State season derailed in a mess of turnovers, losses, and near upsets that never materialize.

Of course, all anyone will remember about Koetter in five years is the quarterback coup he sponsored against himself at the beginning of the season. For those who live under a rock (potentially a small rock, as this is Arizona State we're talking about), Keller, a senior, was named the starting quarterback in fall practices. That lasted all of zero snaps before a contingent of other players approached Koetter, demanding that "El Presidente" Rudy Carpenter*, a sophomore who had been impressive in relief of the injured Keller a year ago, get the job. Remarkably, Koetter conceded. Keller immediately bolted to Nebraska, bought Gameplan, and spent the year cackling at the Sun Devil implosion.

The moral of the story: when you take over a small Carribean nation, watch your back. Or something. Koetter plans to spend the next few years reliving 2006 by playing Tropico nonstop.

*(Nickname bestowed upon Carpenter by the ever-hilarious SMQB and referenced in this story defending Carpenter:
All season, a college football Internet blog has referred to him as "El Presidente," a moniker suggesting that he waged a behind-the-scenes power struggle to get the starting job.
Remember kids, whenever you're writing a story defending a player from "accusations," make sure you accuse "Internet blogs" (does the writer refer to the East Valley Tribune as the "print newspaper"?) of levelling said accusations without bothering to give context or even so much as a link so readers can determine the truth for themselves.)

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