Kenny Dillingham and ASU beat UCLA utilizing swinging gate and numerous creative offensive sets: "You can't be scared to be different."

There are two types of head coaches.

There's the kind that is willing to do anything within the rules to give his team the best chance to win, and then there's the guy that says he's willing to do that...until push comes and then coaches use the crutch of things like "identity" to not make the necessary changes to put their guys in position to win the game.

Kenny Dillingham proved over the weekend with their 17-7 win over UCLA that he's in the first camp.

Dillingham and his Arizona State put together one of the most creative offensive displays that you'll see in major college football, utilizing swinging gate sets and wildcat schemes with numerous players taking snaps at quarterback, coupled with a very strong defensive performance to knock off Chip Kelly and the Bruins.

After their win, Dillingham was asked about the offensive creativity on display, and he shared that it came out of a conversation with Sun Devil analyst and former NFL head coach Marvin Lewis earlier in the week that led to a Google search and led them down a YouTube rabbit hole.

"We just tried to put our players in the best position to win."

"Ironically, coach Marv [Marvin Lewis] mentioned, he was joking around, saying Jim Fassel was the offensive coordinator at Utah - or whoever the OC at Utah was in 1970-something when coach Marv was at New Mexico State and they actually ran the swinging gate multiple times."

"So we Googled it, and we found it on YouTube, and they were running normal passing plays with the swinging gate, and football is cyclical. So if this guy was a NFL head coach, and then Hue Jackson can do it with the Bengals and the Browns, then why can't we do it here."

Dillingham goes on to give credit to players for believing in the "unique and goofy" approach instead of thinking that coaches had no faith in them.

The idea to fully utilize the swinging gate came up early last week, on Monday or Tuesday, and was a byproduct of being decimated with injuries up front - to the point that they were holding open try outs for "big bodies" on their field goal unit just a few weeks ago - and at quarterback, and also realizing just how good UCLA was up front.

"We practiced Tuesday, and then we watched those fire-breathing dragons on the defensive line again, and I said 'Holy cow.' There's a reason they're number one in the country in pressures of the quarterback."

"Man, do we really want to play 70 snaps with these guys and watch them try to kill our quarterback? and the answer was no. We did not."

Dillingham said the swinging gates sets did exactly what they wanted it to do. It created two-on-two sets with the UCLA defensive line out away from the ball where they didn't really need to block them, and he felt like they had really good match ups with the other six guys on the field.

Here's a look at one of those sets.

"It's sound. It looks goofy, and unique, and different, but we didn't just go out there and run something that wasn't sound. It's just different. You can't be scared to be different."

"A lot of people may not like what I do, it may be goofy, but I couldn't really give a crap because I'm trying to put our players in the best position to win based on where we are as a football team right now."

Be on the lookout for the Sun Devils to continue that creativity as they wrap up their season welcoming Oregon to Tempe this weekend before their in-state rivalry with Arizona next weeked.