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Arizona State junior Terrell Suggs (48) is a candidate for the Bronko Nagurski Trophy, given to the nation's top defensive player.
Suggs sparks Devil ‘D’
with ferocious sacks
Terrell Suggs, Arizona Stated
unstoppable defensive end,
leads the nation and the Rac-10
with 1S sacks this season
Adam Jude
Senior Sports Reporter
Terrell Suggs should change his
name. Terrell Thuggs sounds so
much better.
And it’s much more accurate.
“Terrell Thuggs everyone in his
way” just sounds more colorful
than “Terrell Suggs likes to hit
quarterbacks.”
Regardless of his name, the Ari
zona State defensive end knows how
to pack a wallop.
Just ask every quarterback he’s
faced this season. Suggs has made
them all eat dirt.
The 6-foot-3-inch, 242-pound
Suggs leads the Pacific-10 Confer
ence and the nation with 13 sacks in
seven games this season. Compara
tively, two Pac-10 teams — Arizona,
with 11 sacks, and Stanford, with
nine — have fewer sacks than Suggs.
“Suggs is the single most impressive
player I’ve seen on film this year,”
Oregon head coach Mike Bellotti said.
“He requires a double team every
time. He makes that defense go.”
Suggs, a junior, is second on the
school’s all-time sacks list with 28.
He needs 10 more to surpass ASU’s
all-time mark.
“As a freshman or last year, (the
record) would have been a very big
thing to me,” Suggs told the State
Press of ASU. “It’d be a great thing to
have your name in the record book,
but if I do it, I do it. If not, it’s still all
right. It was worth a try.”
In a loss to North Carolina two
weeks ago, Suggs had a career-high
four sacks. In two other games, he’s
tallied three sacks.
“I’m just out there, and my main
focus is to win,” Suggs said. “I think
of myself as a spark plug. I figure (if)
the guys see me going fast, we’ll all
go fast. That’s when we play our
best defense.”
"What's better than
college football?
What's better than
being in college f I'm
at the best time of my
life right now. I'm
enjoying every minute
of it, and I just love
having fun. I'm going
to ride it until the
wheels fall off."
Terrell Suggs
Arizona defensive end
But it isn’t just Suggs’ tackles that
make him noteworthy. He is con
stantly talking, dancing and encour
aging his teammates on the field.
“I guess that’s just kind of me,” Sug
gs said. “What’s better than college
football? What’s better than being in
college? I’m at the best time of my life
right now. I’m enjoying every minute
of it, and I just love having fun. I’m go
ing to ride it until the wheels fall off.”
Suggs anchors a defense that has
not allowed a rushing touchdown
in 11 quarters and gives up 95.7
yards per game on the ground,
third-best in the conference. ASU
leads the Pac-10 with 32 sacks.
“Terrell has that impact every
single day in practice. He never
takes a day off,” ASU head coach
Dirk Koetter said earlier this sea
son. “We go against our defense
every day and work on passing
stuff, and he dominates the period.
We can’t block him, ever.”
ASU also leads the conference
with 25 forced turnovers.
“If you talked to the other coaches
we’ve played against, Terrell de
serves all the attention he has been
getting,” Koetter said. “His motor
runs, and his mouth runs all the
time. He has turned into a positive
force on our football team, and it’s
contagious. He’s got the other guys
playing hard.”
The Chandler, Ariz., native most
certainly will cause fits for an Ore
gon offensive line that has allowed
12 sacks this year, third-best in
the conference.
“What Terrell has meant to our
defense is a great deal of emotion, a
great deal of enthusiasm — and it’s
infectious with the rest of our guys,”
ASU defensive line coach Ted
Monachino said. “He’s got a bright
future ahead of him, not only here,
but in a lot of other places.”
In a 13-9 win over Oregon State
last week, ASU sacked Beaver quar
terback Derek Anderson seven
times, with Suggs recording one sack.
“I just try to outplay them and
have more effort,” said Suggs, the
2000 Pac-10 Freshman of the Year.
“It’s all I ever do. I just want to get to
the quarterback more than they
want to block me.”
Contact the senior sports reporter
at adamjude@dailyemerald.com.
ASU
continued from page 2B
coaching staff have ties to Oregon.
Koetter was the offensive coordinator
and quarterback coach in 1996 and
1997. Assistant head coach Tom Os
borne spent six seasons with the
Ducks, working with special teams
and tight ends from 1995 through
2000. Quarterbacks coach Mark Hel
frich worked as an offensive graduate
assistant under Koetter in 1997.
One of Koetter’s concerns for
Saturday’s game is playing in
Autzen Stadium.
“I’ve been at 90 different stadi
ums for college football games, the
two loudest places I’ve ever been to
are Autzen Stadium and at Syracuse
in the (Carrier) Dome,” Koetter
said. “It affects all your communica
tion. Their fans do a great job of
knowing when to be loud and when
not to be loud.”
In last year’s game, Walter played
the second half in Autzen.
“The fact that he has been there
and knows how loud it is going to
be, I am sure that it can do nothing
but help us,” Koetter said.
After their game against the
Ducks on Saturday, the Sun Devils
will play three of their remaining
five games on the road.
Mindi Rice is a freelance writer
for the Emerald.