After legendary former Arizona State University football coach Frank Kush died on Thursday, many ASU alumni, staff and more took to Twitter to share their thoughts. Kush was 88-years old.
He went on to make stops with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the CFL, Baltimore Colts of the National Football League and Arizona Outlaws of the USFL, but Kush never matched the consistent success he found with the Sun Devils. He guided the Sun Devils to seven Western Athletic Conference Championships, part of posting a winning season in 19 of his 22 seasons as head coach.
The most iconic figure in ASU sports history, Kush is the winningest football coach at the school, with a 176-54-1 record from 1958-79, including nine conference championships. Kush became head coach when Devine left to coach at Missouri.
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In 2000, Kush returned to Arizona State and served as a special assistant to the Athletics Director and then as an ambassador for Sun Devil Athletics. A statue of Kush was erected outside Sun Devil Stadium in 1997. ASU's football field is named after Kush, who is also in the College Football Hall of Fame.
After the 1975 season, Kush was named the National Coach of the Year by both the American Football Coaches Association and the Walter Camp Foundation. He was retained despite a winless (0-8-1) campaign and ended up going 11-28-1 in three seasons, culminating in the Colts' first year in Indianapolis following their move.
Kush's life in college football began as an All-American defensive lineman at Michigan State, where he helped the Spartans win a national title in 1952.
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