After losing to Cincinnati, Dillingham called Arizona State’s kicking game atrocious and invited students to a try out on Monday.

Arizona State lost Saturday to Cincinnati, 24-14. Afterwards, Sun Devils’ coach Kenny Dillingham not so subtly pointed a finger at his kicker – never mind the fact that if two missed field goals had been makes, Arizona State would have still lost.

ASU football coach Kenny Dillingham created a stir after his team's loss to Cincinnati when he said his team would be having kicking tryouts.

Arizona State fell into a first-half hole against Cincinnati and wasn’t about to climb out on Saturday. After the 24-14 loss, coach Kenny Dillingham went off on kicking. Ian Hershey was 0-for-2 on field goal attempts. Hershey missed wide left on attempts from 48 and 41 yards, respectively.

The two missed field-goal attempts by Arizona State kicker Ian Hershey in Saturday's Big 12 game against Cincinnati were not the driving reason behind the Sun Devils' loss (24-14) to the Bearcats. But they did not help, and after the loss, special teams was the focus of coach Kenny Dillingham's ire, and he laid into the team's kicking game.

The Sun Devils coach is exploring all options after his team missed a pair of field goals in the fourth quarter

Arizona State lost a tough one on Saturday, 24-14 to the Cincinnati Bearcats. Sun Devils’ kicker Ian Hershey missed both of his field goal attempts and his head coach, Kenny Dillingham was not pleased about it.

The Arizona State coach publicly called for a kicking tryout after two fourth-quarter field goal misses by his starting placekicker on Saturday afternoon.

Arizona State coach Kenny Dillingham apologized for calling for open tryouts after kicker Ian Hershey went 0 for 2 in a 24-14 loss to Cincinnati