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Hawaii HC Todd Graham Has 17 Championship Rings Stolen in Arizona

Paul Kasabian

Hawaii football head coach Todd Graham had 17 championship rings stolen in Tempe, Arizona, per comments his wife Penni made to TMZ Sports on Thursday.

Per Penni Graham, the couple is currently moving from Scottsdale, Arizona, to Hawaii. The ex-Arizona State coach gave the rings "to a close friend to help move the jewelry out to Honolulu."

However, someone stole the rings out of that friend's car early Tuesday afternoon a few blocks off the campus of Arizona State, where Graham coached from 2012-2017.

"So much went into earning those rings, especially his National Championship ring, as a coach in 1992," Penni Graham said. "Seventeen rings from years of blood, sweat and tears. He is devastated."

Graham was a defensive coordinator for East Central University from 1991-1993. ECU won the NAIA national championship during his final season.

The 55-year-old has been a head coach at Rice, Tulsa, Pitt, Arizona State and now Hawaii, amassing a 95-61 record along the way.

His teams have reached 10 bowl games, winning five.

Graham also piloted the 2010 Tulsa Golden Hurricane and 2013 and 2014 ASU teams to Top 25 Associated Press poll finishes with a high of No. 12 in 2014.

Graham and ASU parted ways in 2017, and he agreed to coach Hawaii in January of this year.

   

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