Bear Down Wildcats

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Miller deserves to stay, barring a hammer from the IARP. If we do get nailed, however, Miller will have to go, and our search will be a difficult one. We'll be under heavy punishments and a likely ban from tournament play for at least one additional year, if not more. Coaches at other BCS schools wi...

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If the IARP penalties are significantly stricter than what has already been self-imposed, including a show-cause on Miller and/or significant suspension, then yes, it will be time to part ways. But if the penalties don't include anything additionally significant, then we have no reason to fire Mille...

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If Fisch can match the Stoops' trajectory, I'd be pleased. Stoops likely had even less to work with than Fisch, and in Stoops' first 6 years we won 3, 3, 6, 5, 8, 8. Too bad the pattern didn't hold, which would have meant two years of 10+ wins back-to-back, but Stoops had his limitations as a head c...

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ASu is a donut team. Even the best ever NBA team needed Dennis Rodman to guard the rim and grab rebounds. As alluded to, last year, that was White, who could get a double double any game he played without a single offensive play being run specifically for him. Without this dirty work kind of guy, AS...

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Gunnell, to me, came off as a sour player. He pouted when things started to go bad, and wasn't a leader. I say good riddance. GG has the height and vision, but not the intangibles to be a successful QB, especially when adversity hits. Plummer, on the other hand, showed fight. He was raw last year, f...

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Watching Remy is like watching Kermit the Frog play basketball. He puts up a shot and all four limbs go crazy to try and initiate contact and get a foul called. It's bad enough when James Harden does this, but at least most of Harden's flails don't make him look like a Muppet. But he too has his mom...

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We don't know what class of sprain it is yet for Mathurin. High ankle, and he's likely out for a few weeks. Thing about high ankle sprains, until they are 100%, the chance of re-spraining it and doing more damage is too high to take the risk and play someone. If it's just a run-of-the-mill sprain, M...

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A 50/50 call, at best, with 10 seconds left? No. I'm not complaining if a no-call goes against us in this situation. Let the players decide the game, not the refs. Tubelis did hit the arm, but did he hit the ball first? If you can't definitively say no, then this isn't a cut and dry foul. And certai...

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This still image doesn't tell the whole story. Did Tubelis get the ball first before he hit Martin's arm? If yes, then as stated, it's a clean block, no foul. The picture also doesn't show if Remy was going straight up or flailing in an attempt to initiate contact. If you watch the video, you see Tu...

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The flopping Bobbies got all the calls last night. Shot 12 more free throws and I swear, ASu was in the bonus after 30 seconds in the 2nd half, and the double bonus after only 1 minute. Certainly felt that way. The referees were typical PAC, meaning awful, but they did the right thing, tie game, by ...

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This is a transition year, with a lot of younger guys that are not expected nor should be one-and-done types. We are also missing Kerisa and Batchko. Two of the top rated Euro players. But they are at least with the team and bonding, and with Kerisa, he's practicing and could play in a few weeks. Ev...

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I'm happy many of the players have decided to stay. But let's be honest. These are the guys with a 12-game losing streak, and last game out, against ASu, showed the fight of newborn kittens crying for their mother, and not the fight of a Wildcat. Enthusiasm, energy, and a few tweets don't amount to ...

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Retread references tires. You can retread a tire, and it will work, but the retread tire will never outperform a new tire, nor will the retread last as long. With coaches, retreads are generally on their way down in their career. They were fired from a school like Texas, Texas A & M, or Michigan, an...

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Arizona hiring a fired coach from a big money school in the state of Texas. Haven't I've seen this story a few times already?

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Urban Meyer today? No thanks. He is washed up. Left two, top-notch programs for health reasons. If he came to Arizona now, doubt he'd have the same fire he had at Florida or TOSU. But the next Urban Meyer from a school like Bowling Green before Utah hired him? Hell yes! And Meyer never finished high...

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If the rest of the staff is young, I can see a guy like Hunley or Cecil being the wise, old sage coach that helps get the younger guys on staff through the trials and tribulations of a season. In this vein, these guys might have value. But having both on the staff, with one, Cecil, never have recrui...

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I'll ask again, if Hunley and Cecil weren't alumni, would anyone be thrilled about hiring a 59-year old who hasn't coached at any level in 5 years, and a 56-year old whose only college experience is as a consultant, and really has never done any recruiting in his career? Sure, Cecil can plop down a ...

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Hunley and Cecil are both great Cats, and are household names to older Arizona fans. But this means nothing to kids, especially those who don't live in Tucson, where the majority of our recruits come from. Hunley is 59 and has been out of coaching for 5 years. Cecil didn't light up the League as a D...

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We're Arizona, not Alabama. The Tide is signing 20 of ESPN's top 300 players this year alone. Has Arizona even signed 20 top 300 players in the past 20 years combined? While there might be a random year we have our best class ever, and USC has their worst, we're not going to out recruit SC. Yet, we ...

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So our "esteemed" University President overruled the AD who wanted to hire a guy who just went undefeated, and won a conference championship with a bunch of underrecruited guys, taking it to Boise St. in the Conference Championship game, for a guy who is an NFL QB Coach on a team that has a cumulati...

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Hire Fisch and I'm done being an Arizona fan and giving money to the school until Robbins, Heeke, and Fisch are all gone, or we win the PAC-12 in football. It's that bad of a hire, and I thought Sumlin would be the disaster he turned out to be. Fisch would make the Sumlin hire look good!

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Brennan makes the most sense to me. The job he did, building SJSU into a winner coaching up lower rated recruits is the exact same job he'd need to do at Arizona. Much bigger mountain to climb in the PAC than versus the Mtn West, but similar obstacles and road bumps. It's not like SJSU is going to h...

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Whatever the position, there is no, perfect way to conduct an interview and ensure, 100%, you are hiring the right person. With that said, there are certainly ways to mitigate the risk. We could hire Fisch and he can turn out to be the next Carroll. We could hire Brennan, and he could flame out like...

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So it's down to a guy who just turned SJSU into an undefeated conference champion, while having recruiting rankings near the bottom of the conference every year. And a guy who is an NFL QB coach for a 6-8 team, and has only been interim head coach for two games at UCLA. Should be a no brainer. Brenn...

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Gunnell has talent, but I question his leadership. It's the intangibles that separate the greats from those with great talent that never reach their full potential. Maybe it's just me, but Gunnell seems like a kid that when the going got tough, he not only didn't step up, look for others to blame, a...

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Stoops wasn't a bad hire at all. He was a top assistant and one of the hottest names out there. And what he built from the ground up at Arizona was a solid football team that came within a whisker of a Rose Bowl in a year when the best returning player, Gronk, didn't play a minute due to injury. It'...

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I'm not sure if Coach N.'s experience coaching at an academy will really translate well to the PAC-12. Coach N. was a hotter name three years ago, but he's still coaching at Navy today. One serious question I have is if he is such a great hire, why hasn't another BCS school scooped him up in the las...

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We obviously need stability at the head coaching position. Not someone using us as a stepping stone. I always thought RRod was the guy, but felt burned when he flirted with South Carolina. For coach N to even consider us after what happened the last time, tells me he want the job for the long haul....

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Recruiting rankings are always a bit of a self-fulfilled prophesy. If Alabama is interested in a kid, then that kid is going to be good, and may have a star added and go from *** to ****. If he ends up elsewhere, he's still the same kid, but now a school got a 4* instead of a 3*, and all because Sab...

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I think Ken N would be another failure if he's hired at Arizona. Seems like a great guy, but not a consistent winner at Navy, and has never coached a team that didn't run a triple option. Oregon State hired Jerry Pettibone, a triple option guy who had success at Northern Illinois. Didn't translate a...

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While history doesn't always repeat, one reason we study history is so that we learn from past mistakes. Sumlin was a mistake from day one. Arizona had already once hired a coach fired from a Texas school that underachieved with Texas talent, and that was an epic disaster named Mackovic. We repeated...

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For those worried about Brennan's W/L record, he took over a team that went 4-8, and didn't leave him much in the cupboard. And some of the talent that was left never bought into Brennan's culture. Throw in this was Brennan's first head coaching job and yes, he made some mistakes, and first two yea...

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For those worried about Brennan's W/L record, he took over a team that went 4-8, and didn't leave him much in the cupboard. And some of the talent that was left never bought into Brennan's culture. Throw in this was Brennan's first head coaching job and yes, he made some mistakes, and first two year...

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Arizona is not a dead end job for someone on his way up. Smith left for USC, and Tomey was courted by Miami (FL), but the interest wasn't mutual. The difference between these two guys and a Sumlin or Mackovic is Smith and Tomey were on their way up when they landed in Tucson. Sumlin and Mack on thei...

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On O, we need to be smart. No more attempts to run up the middle when we have 5 blockers and the D has 7 guys to stop the run. I don't trust Sumlin and Mazzone, but stranger things have happened. On D, we need to make Daniels beat us by throwing to his receivers. ASu has no Harry or Aiyuk on the out...

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We suck more, but they are likely still a little rusty from their break. It's a rivalry game. Anything can happen. But does anyone really care?

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I don't know about anyone else, but I swear if you say Sumlin backwards it sounds just like Mackovic 2.0! It's bad and only going to get worse. How long before we cut bait and begin again?

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Auburn's case is different than our case in that there is absolute proof that money flowed into the hands of players. That's why they are self sanctioning. The proof any Arizona player ever received cash is innuendo and hearsay from things like the Schlabach story and the recordings of Book. But wi...

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We need to stop hiring retreads that failed and bigger programs, and are now at the backside of their career, and hire someone from a smaller program on the rise. Smith came to us from Tulane and Tomey came to us from Hawaii. Two most successful Arizona coaches since we joined the PAC. Mac got fired...

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Auburn's case is different than our case in that there is absolute proof that money flowed into the hands of players. That's why they are self sanctioning. The proof any Arizona player ever received cash is innuendo and hearsay from things like the Schlabach story and the recordings of Book. But wit...

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USC has talent galore, but Helton and staff are average at best. Like it or not, ASu and Antonio Pierce gave us the blueprint to slow USC down. Play soft cover two and make USC methodically march down the field. And eventually, they will make a mistake or get impatient. Of course, if your D is on th...

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I think we need to run the ball effectively to have any shot. We know Utah is going to pound the ball and try for big plays in play action. If we try to play fast on offense and either have a few quick, 3 and outs or even quick scores, our D will be gassed late in the game. But if we play a little b...

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I wonder if the NOA will be announced this afternoon during a Friday data dump. That's often when news you want to bury gets released. If this is the case, it leaves open the speculation why the NCAA would want to bury the Arizona NOA story? It's possible that it's a huge story and the allegations w...

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Difficult to see where any improvement on D will come. We're replacing guys who had experience with a lot of green players. And they will be facing offenses that know what they are doing, with no NAU type warm-up game. College offenses have been ahead of D's most of this year already, and that's bec...

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