2022 Season Thread

[Merkin]

What a shit awful throw.

[Sid]

Jesus Christ, that’s Jason Bourne.

[Alieberman]

Terrible defense

[azgreg]

[Abrahamarvel]

425 and 416? Uhhhh

[RichardCranium]

You can practice all week and all year on the artificial turf, and it's easier to maintain.

The 3 high schools where I live even in a cool moderate climate all switched to turf just for maintenance reasons.

Artificial grass is expensive to maintain. In Tucson (especially, but every where really) it gets hotter than hell, you have to keep watering it to cool it down just so pplayers dont blister their feet. Ever watched a big time field hockey match (say, for example, Australia v India)? Notice the water tails spraying off the back of the ball as its travelling?

It is more dangerous, more injuries happen on fake grass. You have to keep it filled with sand. Weeds grow through it. It tears and then you have to replace big sections and that is expensive.

[Chicat]

Ever watched a big time field hockey match (say, for example, Australia v India)?

[TheCatInTheHat]

This is pretty much an annual thing, but it really strikes me in the spring. The Star's Michael Lev covers Arizona spring football and baseball like nobody who preceded him in my experience. That includes the days of the Citizen, Cat Tracks, and anybody else. It's fine to note a good run, catch, or big hit, but getting into the personnel jockeying in the lines is at a different level. Great stuff.

[UAEebs86]

This is pretty much an annual thing, but it really strikes me in the spring. The Star's Michael Lev covers Arizona spring football and baseball like nobody who preceded him in my experience. That includes the days of the Citizen, Cat Tracks, and anybody else. It's fine to note a good run, catch, or big hit, but getting into the personnel jockeying in the lines is at a different level. Great stuff.

What's amazing is he is a SoCal guy, I think maybe U$C alum? (not sure) and he's only at the Star because his wife moved here for a job opportunity I think.

Has no ties to Tucson or UofA and yet does a bang up job. True professional. Our local guys could take a few lessons from him.

[Merkin]

Has no ties to Tucson or UofA and yet does a bang up job. True professional. Our local guys could take a few lessons from him.

Also ex-local guys like Wilner

[TheCatInTheHat]

What's amazing is he is a SoCal guy, I think maybe U$C alum? (not sure) and he's only at the Star because his wife moved here for a job opportunity I think.

Has no ties to Tucson or UofA and yet does a bang up job. True professional. Our local guys could take a few lessons from him.

Actually, I think he's from the Chicago area and went to Northwestern (good journalism school there.) But he covered USC for the OC Register for a number of years.

[TheCatInTheHat]

Has no ties to Tucson or UofA and yet does a bang up job. True professional. Our local guys could take a few lessons from him.

Also ex-local guys like Wilner

LOL...you mean Mr. Royal We? "Here at the Hotline, We consider Our subjects' opinions to be much less sophisticated and informed than Our own." He sounds like Queen Elizabeth.

[RichardCranium]

Ever watched a big time field hockey match (say, for example, Australia v India)?

You laugh, but a billion people take it very seriously indeed.

World powers are Australia, India, Netherlands, Belgium

[Chicat]

Ever watched a big time field hockey match (say, for example, Australia v India)?

You laugh, but a billion people take it very seriously indeed.

World powers are Australia, India, Netherlands, Belgium

1 billion people… and the 136 Americans who stumbled upon it at 3am on The Ocho.

[RichardCranium]

Ever watched a big time field hockey match (say, for example, Australia v India)?

You laugh, but a billion people take it very seriously indeed.

World powers are Australia, India, Netherlands, Belgium

1 billion people… and the 136 Americans who stumbled upon it at 3am on The Ocho.

True that.

But, ya know, USA does get an Olympics participation certificate once in a while. For the men at least. For a game that is almost entirely played by women in the USA, one would think that they could at least field a competitive team.

Edit: my bad. USA women are ranked 15th in the world. Men are somewhere outside the top 20. I've never noticed the women in the Olympics or World Cup, but I have noticed the men in the Olympics.

[dmjcat]

https://www.azdesertswarm.com/football/ ... en-delaura

[dmjcat]

https://www.azdesertswarm.com/football/ ... lysis-2022

[azgreg]

www.thisisjustalink.com

[Chicat]

Maybe include a description so people who don’t like clicking on random links on the internet know whether they want to risk it.

[dmjcat]

https://athlonsports.com/college-footba ... ng-preview

[threenumberones]

Jesus Christ, that’s Jason Bourne.

My immediate thought was go-go Gadget arm.

[azgreg]

Booooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!

[Merkin]

How many years did Arizona stadium have that grass from the golf course?

I understand the reasoning though. Even where I live all the high schools use artificial turf.

[azcat49]

I heard it costs up to 500k a year for the grass. Not sure how much the upkeep costs for field turf is but we got like 10 years out of the old turf so it has to be more cost effective

[ASUHATER!]

Also we are in a desert that is in a 1200 year all time level drought...so no grass is preferred.

[scumdevils86]

Honestly grass and non native plants should be banned in Phoenix and Tucson

[AV8RCAT]

Honestly grass and non native plants should be banned in Phoenix and Tucson

We need to save the water for golf courses.

[UAEebs86]

The neighborhood I used to live in up in Chandler (Ocotillo) required at least 60% of your front yard to be grass.

[Merkin]

Honestly grass and non native plants should be banned in Phoenix and Tucson

We need to save the water for golf courses.

I think Tucson has used recycled water for years on the golf courses. Although I imagine soon it might be used for drinking water.

[ASUHATER!]

The neighborhood I used to live in up in Chandler (Ocotillo) required at least 60% of your front yard to be grass.

Growing up in Phoenix (well Mesa) I was used to grass everywhere. Every park, golf courses, every playground, most people had at least grass backyards, every median in the streets was grass, grass in front of every office building. But now that I've lived in Tucson where grass is literally just at golf courses(lots of parks are mostly just natural plants) I'm shocked at how much grass and fake lakes and fountains there are everywhere in Phoenix. Phoenix is 5x the population of Tucson but it has to use 10-20x the water.

[wyo-cat]

You can practice all week and all year on the artificial turf, and it's easier to maintain.

The 3 high schools where I live even in a cool moderate climate all switched to turf just for maintenance reasons.

Artificial grass is expensive to maintain. In Tucson (especially, but every where really) it gets hotter than hell, you have to keep watering it to cool it down just so pplayers dont blister their feet. Ever watched a big time field hockey match (say, for example, Australia v India)? Notice the water tails spraying off the back of the ball as its travelling?

It is more dangerous, more injuries happen on fake grass. You have to keep it filled with sand. Weeds grow through it. It tears and then you have to replace big sections and that is expensive.

The U has Cool Field Turf. It has cork chunks in it instead of ground rubber tires.

It’s state of the art stuff.

There’s a set of GIANT heads on the perimeter. They don’t run them at all after people start showing up. I should know the schedule, but I don’t.

[EastCoastCat]

Are we really talking about grass?

[wyo-cat]

Off-season. Won’t be the last time we swerve off on some crazy tangent.

[UAEebs86]

Are we really talking about grass?

Yeah, man

[UAEebs86]

[azgreg]

[Spaceman Spiff]

You can practice all week and all year on the artificial turf, and it's easier to maintain.

The 3 high schools where I live even in a cool moderate climate all switched to turf just for maintenance reasons.

Artificial grass is expensive to maintain. In Tucson (especially, but every where really) it gets hotter than hell, you have to keep watering it to cool it down just so pplayers dont blister their feet. Ever watched a big time field hockey match (say, for example, Australia v India)? Notice the water tails spraying off the back of the ball as its travelling?

It is more dangerous, more injuries happen on fake grass. You have to keep it filled with sand. Weeds grow through it. It tears and then you have to replace big sections and that is expensive.

This is older info.

I mean, some of it is true. Any field surface will require some upkeep. But the technology has improved substantially since the astroturf days.

Even recent stuff, like the NFL finding a 16% higher injury risk on turf was a study from 2012 to 2016. The more time passes, the less difference there is.

The cost isn't a comparison. Turf costs more to install, less to maintain and is cheaper in the long run.

[azgreg]

[UAEebs86]

[TheCatInTheHat]

This won't be any amazing in-depth report; just some random observations. I bumped into an old buddy and spent most of the scrimmage catching up. They had the Zona Zoo DJ there blasting out the noise for a scattered crowd of mostly older fans. One thing that's noticeable is that de Laura, McCloud, and Fifita are all pretty short. I'm a little concerned about our diminutive group chucking up all these looping throws and sidearm deals to get the ball out. They can all run, too, but I'm not sure how much we'll be going for crossing patterns over the middle. The format also made it hard to draw many conclusions, with the defense holding back in a way that must have been frustrating to them. On one play, Echols (who gets in the backfield a lot) might as well have put his hands on his hips standing behind de Laura waiting for him to make a throw. He should have tapped him on the shoulder. The other LA school transfer, Warnell, also penetrated well and was in the middle of a lot of plays. Everybody on the d-line looked in good condition. It also looked to me like Gunner Maldonado's running with the 1s at safety. That said, there were multiple blown plays defensively. On one, Wiley caught the ball with a quarter of the field to himself and almost didn't bother to run it into the end zone. There were some drops, but generally the receivers looked pretty good, notably McMillan, Cowing, Green, and Johnson. Even walk-on TE Carson Cota caught a TD. Other than Wiley, RB Jonah Coleman ran hard and looked pretty good. That's about it. The overcast helped with the heat. Looked like there were a lot of coaches and prospects hanging out, which is always a good thing.

[TheCatInTheHat]

Quick little correction here. The TD that I thought went to Carson Cota actually went to Keyan Burnett. Cota is no longer listed on the official roster, and Burnett took his number. Here's hoping they print up a roster sheet for the Spring Game on April 9.

[azgreg]

[Chicat]

Getting Briggs to come back to the fold and to want to be a part of things like this might be an even more impressive feat by Jedd Lasso than the recruiting class he just brought in.

When the Chicago alumni group tried to get him to do a meet & greet while he was playing for the Bears it was apparent that Briggs wasn’t at all interested and the story was that he wasn’t happy with how aggressive the national alumni association was in trying to get him to give them a big monetary gift. He was basically mad that they saw him as an ATM machine as soon as he was making big money in the NFL.

[UAEebs86]

[azgreg]

ARIZONA WILDCATS

Bud's win total projection: 4

Brad's best bet: Under; To hit the over, Arizona needs to avoid an 0-2 start at all costs against San Diego State and Mississippi State. And for a program that has won fewer games than most Power Five team over the past three seasons, asking for a split there might be too much. The back end of the schedule for Jedd Fisch and company is filled with landmines, including consecutive tilts against USC, Utah and UCLA. Those matchups with the Utes and Bruins both come on the road when teams will be jockeying for position ahead of the Pac-12 title game.

[ASUHATER!]

I'm expecting like 3 wins, but anything more than 4 would be a wildly successful season.

[azcat49]

Just a very tough schedule for a team rebuilding. Open a new stadium against a 10 win team, then a SEC team and a FCS National champion followed by your conference season. Oh well, shock the world I guess

[Spaceman Spiff]

Just a very tough schedule for a team rebuilding. Open a new stadium against a 10 win team, then a SEC team and a FCS National champion followed by your conference season. Oh well, shock the world I guess

It's why my expectations next year are measured more by progress then hard and fast ideas about wins.

With as much youth and as tough a schedule as we have, we could do pretty well and win 3 games.

[azgreg]

[azgreg]