Bear Down Wildcats

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Countdown time? It’s back! And ANG on point as always!

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Some of us may even remember the Fleetwood Mac concert at Arizona Stadium. The AD said the ground was so tore up they would never do it again. https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/tucson.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/4/0a/40a1e65a-be02-5804-8e02-06eb1eb28da6/40a1e65a-be02-5804-8e02-...

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And yes, from our team’s perspective.....this kick time is a kick to the junk. Never seem to be able to catch a break. The one good thing is that thankfully the scummies are also kicking at 8:30 in Eugene....so they’ve got almost an equally taxing Sunday waiting for them too prior to the Duel. I th...

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You can't hold a conversation in the SEZ if the speakers are going at all, even if it's just the PA announcer.

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The south endzone sound system was WAY TOO LOUD!!!! That alone, in my opinion is reason enough why old folks like me would stay home. We bought ear plugs to watch the CAL game in order to preserve our hearing. Other people have made note of this too and I have mentioned it repeatedly in my replies ...

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Arizona needs to play really, really well but they also likely will need a little help from Wazzu. When the Cougs are clicking, they’re hard to beat. This is the game where we find out just where the secondary is at. I’m expecting to see AZ play a ton of press coverage. They’ve been doing that more ...

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CatsbyAZ wrote:
azgreg wrote:They're at the Cardinals game.
ASU seriously time-slotted one of their home games against a Cardinals Thursday game? How stupid?

Actually, the NFL slotted that one after the PAC scheduled this game. This time it’s not the conference’s fault.

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azcat49, remember that Sumlin was hired mid-January. The pickings for assistants were slim by then.

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If Arizona finds a way to win this one, Utah is done in the Pac-12 South race this year. Arizona and USC are 2-1 in conference and Utah is 1-2. If Arizona wins, then they'll be 3-1 in conference and Utah will be 1-3. Colorado gets USC and either CU will be 3-0 in conference or 2-1, and USC will be e...

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I thought the first one was targeting. It satisfied all the requirements of the rule and should have been called. The second one was targeting as well, but I think Hawkins was just trying to make a play and forgot that he shouldn’t be lowering his head and launching. But that’s why the rule is there...

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Merkin wrote:Going back decades, the Cal-UA series has seen some of the strangest games I have ever seen.

Cal-Arizona is the Bermuda Triangle of the PAC-10/12.

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Cal isn't gonna be a fun team to play. They may not be a great team, but they're gonna bring what they have and it's gonna hurt later. Kinda of reminds me of some of the Smith and Tomey teams - 6-7 win type teams, but always a tough out and going down swinging if they lose.

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ahhhhhhh ANG rules!

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I'm good with the late starts in September. Sun might go down at 6:30, but it's still hot for a while. When Iowa came here in 2010 that game was 95 at kickoff. It's the 8 pm starts in October and November that really suck.

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That game was hilarious. No one expected us to do anything because our backs were Samajie Grant and Zach Green. And then we rush for 511 yards and 7 tds and Dawk only completes 3 passes all game :lol: One of which was a long TD to a wide open Nate Phillips. No passes even attempted in the second ha...

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Always gonna remember the way he torched ASU in '16 on the ground. I was laughing my a** off during that game every time they rattled off another 50+ yard play.

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Arizona can win ten but they’re going to need a lot of breaks to fall their way to win that many. I think the floor is five, ceiling is ten, and I’d expect eight.

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I will assure you that Utah will not be looking ahead when Arizona comes to town - they really want a piece of the Cats. But the rest of your point stands. This is where Sumlin is going to either be looking at a potential Pac-12 South run or be looking to try to make a decent bowl game. Beat the Ute...

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Tanner Mangum is a guy who can chuck it all over the place. Has a hell of an arm. But he's about as liable to throw it to one of his guys as he is to a defender. We're going to get an idea of just how much the secondary has improved in the offseason. That said, I don't see how BYU in their current s...

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97cats wrote:100 - 0

It's good to see this back.

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I go back to the Houston and Utah games last year. The defense did every damn thing they could to win that game. They held tight and kept getting the ball back to the offense. These guys had some really promising moments. I do actually give the defense a pass for the Colorado game, because if you lo...

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OK, let's take it from this angle. Let's set the bar at 30 points per game given up by the defense. You taking the over or under on that?

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yeah, agree. First time i was in Az stadium was to watch Pueblo play South Mountain in the State Championship in 1967 (Pueblo forgot how to play in the first half, was untouchabe in the second half, but it was too late). We were all stoked to be there because the addition had been hyped and we thou...

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Only thing I can think of is that they do it in 2-3 increments over 2-3 offseasons. Same kinda thing ASU is doing since that much overhaul can't be done in one go without closing the stadium for 1-2 seasons. Maybe they'll do all the seats one year, the concourses and concessions/bathrooms one hear ...

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Gonna be interesting to see what they do with the west side. A re-do is pretty badly needed, to be sure, but I don't see how they work around the current structure. Maybe the lower 40 rows or so can be re-worked, but above that, there's not a lot of room to renovate without tearing it all down. That...

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57 is the Wildcat record for longest field goal shared by Jon Prasuhn, Pacific 1995; Lee Pistor, Iowa 1977; Max Zendejas, Arizona St. 1985; and Lucas Havrisik, Wash St 2017 . I think I've posted this before but when Max made the 57-yarder in '85 that helped knock the Scummies out of the Rose Bowl, ...

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I'd go with Tilford with Leon right behind him. I expect Mazzone to put JJ and Brightwell in a lot of different spots on the field - backfield, slot, WR, whatever - to give Tate someone to chuck short passes to in some space. I think the running game will be a little more of a traditional power game...

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Wait whaaaaat - it's countdown time again! A light at the end of the long dark offseason.

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I joined up back in 2003, when the Mackovic era was boiling over. I made a "No soup for you!" shirt with Mack as the Soup Nazi on it to wear to the TCU game after one of Mack's incidents. Good lord it's been almost 15 years arguing with you guys.

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We'll see. This was a decision made by the county college district. Pima is going to have trouble scheduling now.

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Flowers was indeed a Stoops guy but wasn’t as effective at safety as we’d hoped. The 3-3-5 with the hybrid spots turned out to be a perfect fit for him - they moved him to LB, and since he had already been a safety and knew the position, the hybrid nature of his spot in the 3-3-5 suited him really w...

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gronk4heisman wrote:To bad Nick Wilson played 5 games last year.

Even if he only played four, the rule isn't retroactive.

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We'll see how Sumlin bumps ticket sales, but add this into the mix - U of A has dropped ticket prices in the lower priced areas. The old $99 adult $50 kid in the upper deck corners is now $70/$35. The EC seating (SEZ, parts of the upper deck, etc) went from $150 to $100. The lower halves of 204-206...

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We'll see how Sumlin bumps ticket sales, but add this into the mix - U of A has dropped ticket prices in the lower priced areas. The old $99 adult $50 kid in the upper deck corners is now $70/$35. The EC seating (SEZ, parts of the upper deck, etc) went from $150 to $100. The lower halves of 204-206 ...

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I love this hire if it happens.

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This can be disastrous. I am so far off the Heeke train. This has all the makings of a potential shit storm. Chill, dude. It's been a week since RR was cut loose. It was six weeks from the time Stoops was cut loose until RR was hired. Names come up and rumors float all over during coaching searches...

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This can be disastrous. I am so far off the Heeke train. This has all the makings of a potential shit storm. Chill, dude. It's been a week since RR was cut loose. It was six weeks from the time Stoops was cut loose until RR was hired. Names come up and rumors float all over during coaching searches...

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TX AGGIE wrote:I have been a fan of Arizona ever since y'all wiped the floor with Miami in the bowl game............still one of my favorite beat downs to this day.

OK, you can stay.

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I'm on board with a Neal Brown hire.

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ChooChooCat wrote:PASS.

Les Miles says "what's that?"

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Sumlin would, at worst case, improve attendance and recruiting. I think those are the most important things we need right now. I don't think there is any evidence that he would increase attendance. That seems to be an opinion, not a fact. Yes, he can recruit, but would not be able to recruit here a...

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Also, even if they fired him after ASU without cause, this investigation still would have seen the light of day. Best to let the investigation run its course. If you fire him and say it's without cause, and then the investigation shows up in the news a month and a half later, that is a really bad an...

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I was at the Arizona Bowl last week and I was looking at the turf, and I was impressed at how good it looked. It's been used for five seasons now. Desert climate and the intensity of the sun here is very harsh on materials, but this stuff still looks pretty much new. I know there's some maintenance ...

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Going from memory here, but didn't practice injuries go up considerably when the Cats practice at Wildcat Stadium after they took the grass out? Specifically thinking ACL. You may be forgetting the Great ACL Harvest of 2011 when six guys blew out ACLs during practice before the season. Turf came in...

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Any one see Raquel Rodriguez' tweet? I'll post a link. Suck at imbedding. https://twitter.com/raquelrod_23/status/949009280216178689 Raquel should really, really stfu... but thinking she is smarter than she is runs in the gene pool. Her copy the MW text message proves nothing...acting graciously to...

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Lane Kiffin brings you a media circus. Do not want.

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Since the claim is against RichRod/family, wouldn't they have the choice to refute/settle the claim and not the university? Why give up $7.5M if you're truly innocent as he claims? You have to weigh your chances. Any attorney will tell you that even if you have a good case, it still comes down to w...

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More ugly info here, including players sexting her pictures of their junk :o https://twitter.com/TucsonStar/status/948623769005826048 Gross! Ugly info indeed! Why, again, is UA paying his buyout?!?! This type of behavier certainly is reason for "cause." If you're U of A, do you REALLY want to fight...

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btfd16 wrote:I am still heated Rivera brought up Zach. I was friends with Zach. I am not happy. Fuck that guy.

After reading the notice of claim, if what is said in there about ZH is true... then it's pertinent.

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While this might not be something everyone would agree with, I think that if there's any substance to the allegations sent to the AG, then this is a situation where you just straight up clean house. Pay buyouts, do what you need, and recognize that you're going to have a couple of bumpy seasons, but...

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