10:04 PM Tue, Sep 12, 2006 | Permalink
B. Nash
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In Monday's press conference, Arizona Football head coach Mike Stoops said the Wildcats schedule is not beneficial to rebuilding Arizona's program. He made comparisons to the Pac-10's scheduling format (3 non-conference & 9 conference games) and other conferences (SEC, Big 12, Big 10) about them scheduling " 4 patsies" to get easy wins and then going .500 in their conference for a bowl-eligible 8-4 record. One may see this as Stoops throwing in the towel on the season saying UA can't make the grade with their current schedule, or you may look at from the angle of Stoops and his staff trying to rebuild a young program without putting their players against the very best and demoralizing them early in the season. I think he was trying to go with the second point because we all know he could've bought out of the 3 schedules when he first came here but he is from the old school, so he played the cards he was dealt. Unfortunately the results were not what he wanted or what the Arizona faithful expected, but hey that's life. There are a couple of things the Wildcats need to do before Stephen F. comes to town.
#1)They can't let the LSU loss put a black eye on the season (i.e. Penn St. 1999), because they may never recover. And....
#2) They just need to take the season one game at a time - win the expected games (SFA, ASU), win the possible close ones (WSU, STAN, OSU, UO), and get an upset or three (USC, UW, UCLA, CAL) against the Big Dogs.
If they pull off those two things, the LSU game may be a distant memory at season end and we can be talking bowl game predictions. Until next time. . . .
-B. Nash
What a pansy? Stoops is such a baby, go back to the B12 pansy
if you can't still schedule your 3 patsies like SFA and get three wins thats his problem, then if you can't go 4-5 in the conference you shouldn't be in a bowl anywyay. This is the most pathetic thing I've heard yet.