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JDL had a bad week with off the field stuff, he was out of sorts but didn't play terrible either, made some good throws but wasn't quite there mentally. Definitely liked how crisp everything worked with Fifita, he knew when the middle of the field was wide open to take the free yards running for a f...

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It's likely all this will change again dramatically in another 8 years or so as the media market continues to evolve. Right now we're at the crossroads of failing traditional linear TV, while streaming paywalls aren't quite there yet to offer security or enough guaranteed money. Now was just a terri...

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Tommy just needs to fix a few keys things: 1. Get much better guards. 2. Learn that the PAC-12 tournament means absolutely nothing, and play 12 guys each game to prevent injury to key starters and reserve strength for the following weeks' games in the NCAA tournament. Maybe win a game, then ok losin...

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Kinda feels like this team still has some of the old Sean Miller DNA, where we're a decent regular season team racking up wins due to our dominating size and frontcourt play, even though we're down to just 2 Miller recruits in Kerr and AT being main contributors. Last night Tubelis and Ballo were un...

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So in the end, they concluded the 2 assistants acted as lone gunman. Miller wasn't sanctioned. Nothing direct on him ever came out in evidence to link him to the allegations. The program did do some bad though and got some additional light sanctions, plus time served. 5 years it took. There was blood.

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Was at the game, that was one of the wildest ones in a long time. We seemed to get a personal conduct foul after every TD, whether it was us or ASU scoring. The middle of the field was wide open all game for ASU on those drag crossing routes, we couldn't stop that play for the life of us. ASU got 30...

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Jedd had a good offseason recruiting, will be interesting to see how we start this year. One thing is last year, as a first year coach, his in-game coaching decisions and time management were pretty poor at times. Sometimes egregious entry level stuff. I'll give him a pass for year one, but hopefull...

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Would be incredibly ironic if next season and thereafter we're still dealing with Sean's sanctions while he's off coaching another team. Sure, he may get a wrist slap co-penalty, but seems dumb penalizing us at this point when all the perpetrators are long gone and have been hired elsewhere. And the...

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So far I like in general what Kliavkoff is saying on multiple issues. Anybody is better than Larry Scott. He's starting his road tour of all the campus in the next few months and will be at AZ at some point meeting with our constituents. And while I think he's a great hire, and is going to move the ...

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Ballo is going to score points for us, and think we've upgraded our interior significantly. Some of those plays he does look like baby Shaq when he's doing the pull up dunks. He was sitting behind a monster frontcourt at Gonzaga. I see him getting alot of playing time sooner than later. I do like Ko...

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I will say since Dec. 12th as a long time fan craving change for the past few years, I have been HIGHLY ENTERTAINED by UA athletics. At times on VOX media, AZ has been the most trending and read about program in all of college sports. I can't wait for both football and basketball this fall. Let's fa...

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I just like the open to the public nature of this board without any overlords. And agree that old board goazcats was awesome, losing that hurt. Think Lloyd can put together a real incredible assistant coaching staff, looks like he'll pull that assistant from Baylor and also fill out with former play...

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Where would you put our head coach vacancy on the list of top program job openings? I'd say starting in the top 7-10 nationally range. Ahead of us are the big 4, throw in Michigan and no list is complete of course without an upper East coast team, but then we're right there.

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I'm all for this firing. I've always felt Sean was a personable nice guy in private, but having gone to about 4-5 UA games each season over the past decade, his dreadful offense actually made me start disliking basketball. It's become where it's even hard to watch us play. This is the fresh start I ...

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They mentioned only 700k subscribers in the whole state of Arizona as well. Quite a solid business model: people can only mostly watch Pac12 games on a network nobody has, often at times nobody wants to watch, resulting in revenues less than 25% of your competition in other conferences. Impressively...

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That video is awesome! At 1:47 Tedy just destroys that guy with more than 100% effort. And those edge rushes vs. Illinois were elite level stuff.

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^ with ya. This week I listened to that hour long podcast Fisch did with Yogi Roth around 2017 when Fisch was assistant coaching with the LA Rams. It's really enlightening if you haven't listed to it yet, he went through his journey up to that point which was pretty incredible. From that, you get th...

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Bijan Robinson just flipped from Ohio State to Texas. Can we flip him again :) Can we flip him again? Ha. He scored 6 touchdowns in Texas's last 2 games. We could use a guy like that. With Herman being fired, their running backs coach also may be gone. There were other factors in his decision to go...

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So far I really like the assistant coaching staff Fisch is putting together. Also pretty cool he's on twitter and in one week seems like he has engaged with the community more than Sumlin did in 3 entire years. I think he'll be a fun entertaining coach, but have no idea how many games he'll win. Hun...

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As a Cats fan, feel a tiny bit better about the hire today. Still seems odd to hire somebody from out of left field when we had other candidates with ties to the school, but who knows. But pretty much the consistent feedback I've gotten from out of state friends who don't follow UA football or any o...

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No matter who we hire, at the press conference I'd give anything to hear Heeke's famous "A new chapter of Arizona football begins--and there's been some great chapters here!" speech again. That was the highlight of the Kevin Sumlin era for me.

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That's kind of a unique fact with this coaching search in that one of the potential hires was in McKale, speaking very eloquently in that 2019 Tomey memorial service. He seems smart, self-aware and has a more easy going personality that would thrive in less media intense outlets like Tucson, vs. a m...

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Seems like if Harsin and Pierce out, then it's either Brennan or Salave'a, then Hill. Heeke probably did have the right initial inclination last time at this, but got talked out of last minute, so this time stick to his guns. Imagine if Brennan goes undefeated this year, then has an 8-10 win season ...

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^ I could certainly get on board with a tireless recruiter type, especially in Arizona with more talent in the Phoenix area than ever before. We just built two brand new excellent football facilities that should be helping, but so far have gotten a negative return on investment like they don't exist...

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What's the best guess of AZ saying here's $5 million we're gonna go a different direction at season's end with Sumlin? On the main Phoenix sports talk radio station, they are often hostile to UA, but even they thought that was cheap and a no brainer to them. But here locally we're more worried about...

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Kadeem doing well starting, both running and receiving. There's a lot of knock on UA not getting the top Tucson kids right now, but there are a few things in play. Namely the way RichRod rode Kadeem into the ground with 42 carry games. And mishandled Cam Densen. Not surprised we're a bit toxic to lo...

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Already ready for some football. First year ever with indoor practice facility to get out of the monsoon lightning, gotta think our preparation should be more focused. Our team comes out of DEEP hibernation, with no bowl game following a very uneven season, seems like forever since we've had anythin...

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Josh Green just had shoulder surgery April 2019, and as a freshman, not exactly ready yet to lock him in yet for 30 minutes a game (though we need it). Jeter is pretty fragile too.

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Good article written 2 days ago about Miller's potential defamation case against ESPN by an attorney and UA grad; Above the Law: Falsehoods in the Media. Because Miller's a public figure, no real shot at a lawsuit, but would be nice if ESPN would at least try to set the record straight, even if shor...

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Here was the crux of Schlabach's original story, and with all the testimony done, his story was defamation of Sean Miller: "FBI wiretaps intercepted telephone conversations between Arizona coach Sean Miller and Christian Dawkins, a key figure in the FBI's investigation into college basketball corrup...

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My problem with all this is the short and medium term optics. Talk to anyone who is not a U of A fan, or an out-of-stater, and they say so what about that FBI tape about Miller paying players? 99.9% of people don't understand there is no FBI tape with Miller talking about paying players, which is th...

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Schlabach back at it. His initial story way back gave the impression Miller was on FBI wiretap arranging payments to Ayton. Today's testimony is about 2 crooks on the phone talking about Miller, who can literally say whatever they want to each other on the phone. Big difference.

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With all the names and coaches that have come up in this trial from East coast to West coast, can't wait till the trial is over and ESPN is back ignoring 99% of the testimony and back on Miller's balls again. Will be some forthcoming article by Schlabach to save his ass bringing Sean Miller up again...

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From above: "So Dawkins needs to impress. He can’t with UNC/Duke/UK. That's established They all have their own bag men, per Dawkins. Code is on tap basically saying KU is too hot, too blatant with their scheming. But Sean Miller? That’s a name to sell to schemers. And they DO have his assistant. No...

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So a guy testifies as to his interpretations of a conversation he had with a convicted felon selling his services on a yacht in Miami, a conversation where the felon was speculating Sean "has to know" what is going on, yet neither has any facts or evidence to support this claim. It's like we're now ...

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Back to the defense attorney: What evidence is the attorney going to reveal? The wiretaps are covered by a gag order. Dude is talking out of his ass because he's not going to risk his law license / fine / jail time over this stunt. Can't wait for this trial to end. https://memegenerator.net/img/ins...

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Watching our women's team's NIT run, I kinda wish Adia Barnes was our coach. What struck me was how their style of play is a lot more fun to watch then the mens. Constantly pushing the tempo, and her guards have been trained how to properly throw in entry passes to the post (yes it is possible to dr...

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Avery Johnson buyout, maybe Bryne wants Miller lol

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Unless the U of A gets some new facts so that it can file Miller for cause and avoid paying a buyout, both sides are kind of stuck with each other right now. Miller is under contract, and the U of A isn't in a position right now to buy him out. He also has a big class coming in, so it's not necessar...

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Depends how you look at the big picture. On April 6, 2009, as an Arizona basketball fan would you have been excited if you knew the next 10 years of results? Zero final fours, a handful of PAC12 titles, 3 Elite Eights, a few really bad NCAA early round exists to substandard teams, and 1 super domina...

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We lost our webcam finally

Sure was cool watching that building go up from a dirt lot to what they've created, a monster building which will hopefully build a monster football team.

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I'm an alum and go to games, and the overall depression of it all has sunk in on me too. It's gotten to the point where I'm somewhat disenchanted with Miller's offensive schemes regardless of scandal. We're nearly unbearable to watch. I get how our team has been hollowed out this year by ESPN. But w...

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That's just the thing I don't go for. On the West coast we are to believe that we have to be on at night. There is no such universal law in the universe. Football fan bases are built up with day game football and tailgating. Sure, ESPN wants to slot us at night because that's where the opening in th...

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Larry's misses: not getting Pac12 network on Directv; negotiating crap tv contracts so we've been relegated to late night irrelevant viewing, failure to control costs or grow revenue, letting tv networks ruin our conference by pretty much eliminating the day game in football and basketball. Outside ...

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In recruiting can't imagine how much every program in the country has used us not having something like this over and over, year after year. Don't blame them, who really prefers to practice football in 100+ degree heat and monsoon lightning storms? This a game changer (or at least should be!)

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Was at the game tonight, not sure how much more of this I can take. Sean's offense is just miserable, nearly unwatchable. 10 years, no Final Fours. For me, next year's class is his make or break class. 2 years he gets with them, if he gets another round of talent yet doesn't do anything with it yet ...

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I forgot the quotes, what Schlabach "knows". Can't believe we've heard the last of it, as right after the trial, after all was testified to with all the programs and coaches implicated, he was back on Miller's sack with a new story. Still wonder why none of that supposed Ayton-Miller conversation ca...

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A plea deal is a big step in moving past the whole thing vs. a trial airing all the dirty laundry. A big step for Miller and next year's class. SO many programs involved, sanctions if any likely a ways off. Still no word on what supposedly Miller said on any FBI tapes about Ayton, except what Schlab...

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To me this can only help. Who really cares what a no name running backs coach does anyway; getting some name recognition for the program and putting a potential recruiter there a good move.

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We're currently tied for first in the South, not out of it yet. Weird to even consider that.

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