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From the weekly press conference, here are the comments by first year head coach Jimmy Lake... On what Arizona does well: “Their quarterback can throw it. They have a spread attack, a ton of tempo. It’s the same scheme we faced last year with their offense, but now with a quarterback that is very ac...

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84Cat wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 12:27 pm

Seven of the last nine are on the road. Who made up the conference schedules...Tara VanDerveer?

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Somebody's actually circulating a petition to have him removed. My solution is to vote by changing stations or turning the radio off. I assume the removal of Kevin Woodman was generated by somebody over his political statements (a definite mistake on his part) with maybe a threatened boycott of adve...

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6 pm Saturday on FoX. For us, basically copy/paste from the USC for the depth chart, although WRs Brian Casteel and Drew Dixon are apparently back in the good graces. C Josh McCauley surprisingly played the whole USC game on a bad knee, so hopefully he'll again be available. The only nick I recalled...

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Now it's on to Tampa, which will be a challenge. After that, 4 of the last 6 are at SoFi. But, there's still a return match in Seattle down the road.

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That's a great question. If he redshirted and didn't play this season, I'd think so under the more relaxed transfer rules. 6-4 295 out of Scottsdale. Too bad he wasted his time in Waco. But, maybe he got to meet Chip and Joanna Gaines.

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I believe the main issue is crowds in attendance, and IIRC, there will be none...just the cardboard cutouts. Per the CDC website, US Covid deaths from February to present among males aged 15-24 total 250, out of a US population for that age group of 22 million. As a percentage, it comes out in scien...

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Or should that be "the Republic moron?" Whatever. So Michael Lev, the Star's fine UArizona beat writer for football and baseball (formerly of the OC Register), writes his game story. Unfortunately, newspapers have an old fashioned approach where someone other than the writer comes up with the headli...

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Great to get the A Team and all that, and it was a well-produced game. But, I wish there was a little more effort by broadcasters, especially in a team's first game of the season, like ours, to wait-and-see. That's especially true when you've got a pretty special QB and an entirely new defensive sta...

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Well, we covered 10 of a 14 point spread against USC, so if we did that again, we'd be right there. But, life on the road and all that. The forecast calls for a momentary break in their semi-permanent rain with game-time temps in the 40s. I do think this team is hungry to show they can win; we'll see.

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UCLA beat Cal 34-10 today in the hastily thrown-together makeup of their respective cancelled games against Utah and ASU. A bit tougher assignment for Cal. They were going to travel anyway, and with all the flights, SF to LA is like an aerial freeway. But different hotel, logistics, and team to prep...

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Some people may not like former long-time local high school (and briefly Pima CC) football coach Jeff Scurran, but he's apparently got a sports show on Saturday afternoon at 4 on 1030. Supposedly this week, he'll have RichRod as a guest. (Scurran coached his son Rhett at Catalina Foothills HS.)

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Not going to go through the whole box score, but a few select items: o We were missing starting WR Brian Casteel and reserve WRs Drew Dixon and Dyelan Miller for unknown reasons. o C Josh McCauley managed to recover from his knee issue sufficiently to start. o Walk-ons Rourke Freeburg and Parker Hen...

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Yeah, I'll give a tip of the hat to Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzales. Haven't listened for awhile, but Jay seems able to line up some pretty good guests. Wish they'd go back to having a sports talk guy in the morning. Jeff Dean is the PA announcer for football and basketball, and he did mornings for a ...

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17-13 USC at halftime. Very competitive game. Way to hang in there, Cats!

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$50. Good luck!

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I listed Arizona's starters above, so here are USC's starters: Offense: WR 8 Amon-Ra St. Brown (6-1, 195, Jr.) WR 15 Drake London (6-5, 210, So.) WR 21 Tyler Vaughns (6-2, 190, Sr.*) TE 84 Erik Krommenhoek (6-5, 260, Sr.) LT 75 Alijah Vera-Tucker (6-4, 310, Jr.*) LG 72 Andrew Vorhees (6-6, 320, Jr.*...

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November 13: Agua Fria 52 Independence 7 Amphi 28 Flowing Wells 17 Basha 27 Mountain View 20 Buckeye Union 42 Tempe 26 Cactus 54 Bradshaw Mountain 17 Canyon Del Oro 35 Ironwood Ridge 6 Canyon View 41 Raymond Kellis 19 Casteel 24 Desert Ridge 17 Catalina Foothills 14 Sahuarita 6 Centennial 42 Chapar...

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With the cancellation of the Cal at ASU game and the Utah at UCLA game, Cal will now play at UCLA at 10 am Sunday on FS1.

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I mentioned in passing that players overwhelmingly want to play, which is true. Not sure why anybody would seize on that particular sentence, which wasn't intended as any kind of summation or conclusion, but that's fine. The presidents of every major football-playing university have chosen to play, ...

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Well, since we've established that we disagree on this topic, that should just about cover it. Somebody can say "they shouldn't play", and somebody else can say "yes, they should", and that can devolve into did not/did too ad infinitum. But, I'm certainly fine with that.

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They other day, I put on one of those endless P12N replays, which started out with a UArizona hoops game from last year, and then switched to one for ASU. This has bugged me for awhile. In the scene-setter, you show some of the surrounding geography, then some of the campus. So, for us, it's maybe t...

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Games will get rescheduled or cancelled all season, in both the NFL and college. The typical situation to date is that affected players get a sore throat and cough for a few days (if that), then there's the whole quarantine/contact tracing bit where a position group is suspended so the team isn't al...

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Thanks for that. They had a bunch of signing news in the Star, but didn't see anything on Arizona Softball. I realize the four girls signed today are for next year, but looking at the roster for this year...holy crap! With all of the redshirts, that is one loaded lineup.

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This is a good place for this. Ignore the misleading headline, since it's mostly about Cal's problems with the City of Berkeley over one player and that city's quarantine/contact tracing policy. Wilner posits that Cal should maybe move it's players out of town, as Stanford did before their local hea...

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I'm going to stick this in here, because I'm not going to do a media thread for each sport. So the Pac-12 media types voted UArizona hoops 5th. Fair enough guess. But Pascoe throws out that they're correctly picked the winner for the last five years or something. Well, great, but when there's often ...

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Not surprisingly, the depth chart for USC is identical to the one for Utah. It's been a typical M.O. for Sumlin to release an initial one, and then only change it with basically season-ending injuries. One change is that Jamarye Joiner, who was suspended for the Utah game, is back in good graces. Un...

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It's a commonly used funding mechanism, which I support in this case. Nobody said anything about cutting entire athletic departments, and as I said, I'm fairly sure ASU has more fat in their athletic department marketing department, with no announced cuts yet.

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Didn't see it mentioned here anywhere, so I'll just throw out that our game at Washington on Nov. 21 will be at 6 pm Tucson time on FoX broadcast television (Ch. 11 in Tucson.)

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This may seem like the last thing on anybody's radar right now, and ordinarily I'd completely agree. The ONLY reason I bring it up is that I saw that ASU is going to use bond funding (basically a 30-year mortgage to be paid off) to finance a friggin' 5,000 seat HOCKEY arena for over $100M. In the cu...

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One projected score I saw from the pros was 29-13, with USC covering, although they picked a higher O/U than that. But, predictions are like...well, you know the rest.

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USC's very talented, and they got a game under their belt. For us, we can analyze them, while they're stuck with last year's video of our team. We have the comfort of playing at home, albeit with no fans. I doubt they have any more bumps and bruises than we have from practice, so I'd call that a was...

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I'm not going to even use his name, but there's a glorified copy editor at the Republic who apparently also has the job of tweaking all things UArizona, as that's the only time they allow him to write about anything. So, if there's anything about whether pro scouts rank Gunnell as a better drop-back...

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As UArizona beat writer Michael Lev has tweeted out on more than one occasion, if the league had started earlier (they wasted two weeks after having rapid testing deployed), they'd have more options for makeup games. As it is, it sounds like the final game of the season, which was initially tabbed a...

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Caught some of an early morning practice at Bear Down Field today. Maybe they're doing some work on the field at Murphy/Mulcahy. It was interesting and very intense, as they worked on a pressure offense. I played at playing some soccer in middle school, but I was never much of a fan of watching it u...

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Yeah...supposedly juggling from the cancellation of Wisconsin/Purdue.

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Actually, I think we'll get a fair number of eyeballs for our season openers. The only national game that jumps out at me is Clemson (without Trevor Lawrence) at Notre Dame on the upset alert. 10:00 AM FoX: ASU at USC 1:30 PM ESPN2: Arizona at Utah 5:00 PM ESPN2: UCLA at Colorado 5:30 PM ABC: Stanfo...

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I think Rhoads said something to the effect that he was hired to install his 3-4 defense, and that's what he intended to do, rather than work around the available talent. We'll see how that goes. To me, there were a couple of surprises on this depth chart. Considering our problems at LB, I guess it'...

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Quite honestly, I thought Ryan Radtke was about the only really good local sports talk host Tucson's had. He lost out on the PBP job to Brian Jeffries, which was probably a good thing for us, as Radtke was always going to move on at some point, and we got better continuity this way with Brian. He's ...

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Yeah, we have. My hope is that Mazzone/Gunnell can click a little bit against a rebuilding Ute defense that returns only 3 starters and isn't quite up to Dudley Do-Right's normal standards. (And yes, I AM jealous.) Also, since they've got a new backfield, that our slightly beefed-up D-line can preve...

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Obviously we've got to deal with the dark cloud that's been hanging over the program for an unfair amount of time. Justice delayed is justice denied, and all that. It seems that the likely scenario many people are predicting is that we'll get this kind of hybrid season in, with whatever restrictions...

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That's exactly where I'm at. Meanwhile, the weather in SLC should be sunny and in the high 60s/low 70s...through Friday. Then on Saturday, it's supposed to be cold and rainy, and on Sunday, cold and snowy. Situation normal for the Arizona Wildcats.

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Last year, Utah had by far their best team since entering the Pac-12. That team averaged 32 ppg, and they put up 35 on us. This year, they're rebuilding somewhat, with a new QB and RB and replacing 8 defensive starters. Meanwhile, Arizona returns the guy who should have been the QB all year in 2019 ...

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Utah loses QB Tyler Huntley and RB Zack Moss, but it's all about Whittingham's system and their Samoan connection. If somebody can get him the ball, TE Grant Kuithe may be the best in the league. Senior Jake Bentley may be in line to be the Ute QB. Diminutive WR Britain Covey is also a dangerous kic...

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Yeah, I think there are two schools of thought here. Mine is to get as much football in as possible during the current circumstances, with its many complexities. There is also a catechism that disagrees with that approach. To me, playing as many games as possible is the victory, not BCS title game o...

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Not sure of the business model of minor bowls and how much revenue from providing content for TV compares to ticket revenue, as well as how much some bowls may be prepared to conduct operations through a bad year in exchange for more exposure than usual due to the various cancellations. Probably de...

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In the Dodgers 60+ years in LA, only the Yankees have a better record of World Series appearances and wins. Yankees - 16/9 Dodgers - 12/6 [/i] Cardinals - 10/5 Red Sox - 7/4 Athletics - 6/4 Orioles - 6/3 Reds - 6/3 Giants - 6/3 Pirates - 3/3 Phillies - 5/2 Mets - 5/2 Tigers - 4/2 Royals - 4/2 Twins ...

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My son tells me more illegal fireworks went off last night for the Dodgers than when the Lakers won the title.

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Since you mentioned the Racquet Club, and it's the right time of year, I'll relate this. Don't know what they do now, and I'm sure nothing this year with COVID, but they've had a charity costume party fund-raiser for Halloween that we used to go to. I think if you won the costume contest, you got li...

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Tucson's only had a few decent radio personalities (or TV, for that matter.) The jobs here just don't pay, so the best talent moves on, unless they've got some side business or just decide to hang on because they like Tucson and a low-pressure job. While Frank Kalil was before my time, he was appare...

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