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Covered the Arizona Wildcats for ... a long time. Still dabbling at @phnx_wildcats . Senior editor of Lindy's Football Annuals.
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PROGRAMMING NOTE: I will be back writing a few times a week about the Arizona Wildcats this season at
@PHNX_Sports
. But before I dive into any of that, I had to come to peace with this:
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RichRod not happy in Ole Miss press box. Rebels down only 14-10 to Alabama at the moment.
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Noah Fifita, Tetairoa McMillan and Jacob Manu are set to do something special at and for Arizona football. They decided that THEY were the culture. Not the former coach.
They stayed.
And they just might become legends.
Story at
@PHNX_Sports
⬇️⬇️
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Noah Fifita's final 2023 stats (almost all from nine starts):
--241 of 333 (72.4%)
--2,869 yards
--25 TDs
--6 INTs
--165.9 passing efficiency rating
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What a day:
➡️Bobby Wade returns to UA as WR coach
➡️Fifita, TMac lead wave of returning players
➡️Cats storm back to beat UCLA
➡️Duane Akina lets it rip on twitter
➡️And one valuable lesson: Never, ever, EVER piss off Humberto Lopez
Have a great Sunday!
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Those Big 12 schools are going to like coming to Arizona Stadium in November.
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NOAH FIFITA, folks.
Five career starts, all against ranked teams, the last three victories:
➡️ Passing: 140 of 185 (75.7%)
➡️ Yards: 1,463
➡️ TDs: 14
➡️ INTs: 4
#ArizonaWildcats
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➡️Player A: 86 catches, 1,212 yards, 9 TDs
➡️Player B: 90 catches, 1,402 yards, 10 TDs
Player A is No. 15 on ESPN's list of top 100 cfb players
Player B is not ranked.
Player A is Mizzou's Luther Burden III
Player B is Arizona's Tetairoa McMillan
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When Michigan scheduled Colorado, Buffs had 6 straight losing seasons.
When Wash. scheduled Rutgers, Knights had 24 Ws in three years.
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I think the tide has already turned from skeptical to "let's goooooo!!" What say you?
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After ASU led 20-15, Arizona ended on a 90-40 run. That's one really looooong Run of Death.
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Khalil Tate in everyone's top five Heisman list tomorrow. Who's with me?
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Oregon coach Dana Altman comes through Arizona locker room, shaking hands, wishing Arizona players good luck.
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Noah Fifita has an Arizona-record 526 passing yards (and counting).
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Scooby Wright has made the Cleveland Browns. On a personal note, this makes my day.
#ArizonaWildcats
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➡️ Seven-game winning streak for first time since 1998
➡️ Fourth season with 10+ wins in school history
➡️ Potential top 10 final AP ranking
➡️ 2024 preseason Big 12 favorites
Your Arizona Wildcats
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Arizona Wildcats sophomore Tetairoa McMillan:
➡️90 catches for 1,402 yards in 2023 (20 yards shy of school record, Dennis Northcutt)
➡️Finished with four consecutive 100-yard games (38 catches, 649 yards, 3 TDs)
➡️Needs 1,248 yards to set UA career record (3,351, Bobby Wade)
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I was there as a reporter when Mike Candrea's Arizona softball team went from afterthought to Tucson's darlings. Same thing is happening here with Adia Barnes' program. Just the beginning.
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I don't make the rules, but I'm pretty sure that Rob Gronkowski and
@TwoStarScoob
are now obligated to be at every Arizona home game.
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All due respect to Bagley, but pity the poor GM who has to explain why he didn't take Deandre Ayton at No. 1.
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The situation is rapidly evolving. But I'm on Team Johnny Nansen as the Arizona Wildcats look to move quickly.
I explain at
@PHNX_Sports
:
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TOTALLY RANDOM.
I stumbled upon video today (thanks, Utah digital library!) of the legendary 1968 Arizona-Utah "snow game" in which the Wildcats rallied from a 15-0 4Q deficit in a blizzard to win 16-15 on a 27-yard FG by Steve Hurley. It looked like this:
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I've tweeted this before but seems like I should again: The license plate from the '67 Buick of
@TedyBruschi
when he was a senior at Arizona.
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"He is one of the greatest coaches in all of sport for what he's done. The guy is the best. That's best with a capital B-E-S-T and 25 exclamation points." -- Josh Pastner, in 2008, on Lute Olson
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Kevin Sumlin is serious about his Arizona alumni outreach. He shows up with Dick Tomey at huge gathering of ex-Wildcats on Friday night in advance of Warner Smith memorial service tomorrow. Smart, classy move.
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When Arizona achieved its first No. 1 ranking in the AP poll (Dec. 21, 1987),
@mattmuehlebach
looked like this.
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Tedy Bruschi was a special advisor to Arizona football under Jedd Fisch. Will he have a role under Brent Brennan?
“I left him a voicemail yesterday. So I'm just waiting to hear back now,” Brennan told
@PHNX_Wildcats
today.
Stay tuned!
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Trung Canidate ran for 288 yards on 18 carries in Arizona’s wild 50-42 win over ASU in 1998, scoring from 80, 66 and 48 yards.
➡️ One of my favorite UA stats: Canidate’s season average on 10 TD runs was 51.5 yards!
Photo: the 1998 backfield of Kelvin Eafon (left) and Trung.
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Noah Fifita in his first four starts (all vs. ranked teams, and the past two being victories):
➡️He has completed 111 of 149 passes (74.5%) for 1,152 yards, with 11 TDs and three INTs.
#ArizonaWildcats
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This hasn't been a "Kylan Boswell game" and Tommy Lloyd has responded by giving Jaden Bradley much more playing time -- and Bradley has been terrific.
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Tetairoa McMillan's 1,242 receiving yards are fourth in
#ArizonaWildcats
single-season history. Here's who he is chasing in a bowl game:
➡️ 1,422, Dennis Northcutt, 1999
➡️ 1,389, Bobby Wade, 2002
➡️ 1,364, Austin Hill, 2012
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In more than 44 years, only one
#ArizonaWildcats
QB has thrown a pass in the NFL.
He's now a Super Bowl champion.
Congrats, Nick Foles.
#FlyEaglesFly
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It's over. Arizona's record-setting day from Noah Fifita (527 passing yards) helps Arizona to its biggest-ever win in Tempe (35 points) with a 59-23 final. That's six wins in a row and a 9-3 record in the regular season. Amazing job by Jedd Fisch and the Wildcats.
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When does Arizona announce a raise for Jedd Fisch?
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The
#ArizonaWildcats
are No. 21 in the College Football Playoff rankings. "That's a serious team to start to watch," said Kirk Herbstreit.
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No Arizona quarterback has ever thrown for 400 yards against ASU. Noah Fifita has 357 in the first half.
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Shoutout to that one time Lee Corso put on the Wildcat headgear on College GameDay, Sept. 2015 in Tucson. (UCLA won that day.)
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The University of Arizona: It's been official for the Wildcats to Bear Down since this date in 1927.
#BearDown
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Looking forward to the NCAA's Stanford-only hype video.
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I'm clearly no coach, but I would give the ball to Khalil Tate, tell him to have fun, play his best backyard ball and try to go out in a blaze of college glory.
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"Hey, T-Mac, let's go break my Arizona career record for receiving yards." -- Bobby Wade, probably
Arizona Wildcats sophomore Tetairoa McMillan:
➡️90 catches for 1,402 yards in 2023 (20 yards shy of school record, Dennis Northcutt)
➡️Finished with four consecutive 100-yard games (38 catches, 649 yards, 3 TDs)
➡️Needs 1,248 yards to set UA career record (3,351, Bobby Wade)
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Arizona had called its final timeout. There were 12 seconds left, the Wildcats down four points. Coach Dick Tomey’s message to his quarterback was clear.
“Don’t get sacked,” he told Ortege Jenkins. “If you run, you better make it.”
October 3, 1998: The “Leap by the Lake.”
@ArizonaFBall
QB
@OrtegeJenkins16
literally flips over three Washington defenders to score the game-winning TD w/ :04 left to give UA a 31-28 win in Seattle.
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As Jedd Fisch says, Noah Fifita (and the rest of the Wildcats) ... "they don't flinch."
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What a day of comebacks at Arizona.
➡️ Basketball, from a 17-point second-half deficit (19 in first half)
➡️ Noah Fifita, T-Mac and more...
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I just got an email reminder to vote for the three finalists for the Biletnikoff Award by tomorrow. It allows for write-in candidates. I know what I have to do.
#TMAC
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Christian Koloko: Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year
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Your 1998
#ArizonaWildcats
quarterbacks together again. Ortege Jenkins and Keith Smith knew how to make it work.
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A lot of new Noah Fifita chatter nationally today, so just going to drop this story from before last week's games:
I looked at all the top 40 QB recruits from the 2022 class. Especially after putting up 527 vs. ASU, who's doing better than Fifita?
Story:
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Worst part is now having to wait so long to see a loaded Arizona women’s basketball team next season. Just getting started.
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I don't know how you sum up a man like Dick Tomey with one quote. But I think this, from a 2017 interview with me, comes close to capturing what he was all about.
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In a stretch of five consecutive games against ranked teams, Arizona allowed only four touchdown passes:
0 -- Washington
1 -- USC (in triple OT)
0 -- Washington State
2 -- Oregon State
1 -- UCLA
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You're looking at almost 50% of Arizona's 52 TDs from 1998.
All-time great Dennis Northcutt, captain Kelvin Eafon (16 TDs for
@krocdesertstorm
!) and Holiday Bowl hero Brad Brennan, now part of the first family of Wildcats football.
(2018 photo)
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Just puttering around on free AI images for no reason at all tonight. Don't judge me. 🤣🤣
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One of my all-time favorite photos..
Dick Tomey with Desert Swarm stars Tedy Bruschi and Rob Waldrop in January 2018.
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To paraphrase something UA legend (and huge hoops fan) Terry Francona said recently on
@EyeTucson
about this Arizona basketball team: I think we all skipped right past "like" and went right to "love" with this team. Tommy Lloyd brings the joy.
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Something I have said a lot over the years: Arizona football needs a coach who knows how to do more with less, not one who just came off doing less with more.
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Deandre Ayton in two games against Arizona State:
48 pts
35 rebs
17 of 26 FGs
7 assists
6 blocks
Maybe one more game in Vegas?
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2020 has given us this sentence: Arizona and Arizona State will meet on Dec. 11 as winless teams in front of no fans in Tucson.
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"The last thing Dick Tomey would want us doing is sitting around wallowing in tears, sulking about his passing. He would be like, let's hug each other, celebrate the good times. Celebrate what we have. Keep it going. Pass it on."
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Big-time opportunity in 2024.
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Makes you miss the Pac-12 South and the bid to the league championship game.
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This is fantastic.
Since the age of 5,
@thenoah_fifita1
was taught by
@mrsFeef
@lesfifita
to thank everyone immediately after the game, for making time to watch him play.
BEAR DOWN
@ArizonaFBall
!!!
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Jacob Cowing: His school-record 13th TD of the season.
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Jaden Bradley against Dayton:
▶️ 12 points
▶️ 4 rebounds
▶️ 3 steals
▶️ 3 blocks
▶️ 2 assists
▶️ 0 turnovers
▶️ 27 minutes
Reaction at
@PHNX_Sports
from Saturday's win and Arizona's excellent "Plan B" at point guard.
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I enjoyed Josh Pastner as the game analyst. Mix of good energy, story-telling and x-and-o insight.
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.
@Wildcats1290
Love my old radio family, but what the hell are you doing with this Arizona postgame show? No phone calls? Airing audio "highlights?" Talk about topic No. 1 -- Sumlin -- and throw open the phone lines. Be there for the fans.
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All that is at stake here is your happiness in the fall of 2024.
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Welcome back to all the uncertainty.
Welcome back to the “We can’t have nice things” stage of Arizona Wildcats football.
Say goodbye to Jedd Fisch.
Story at
@PHNX_Sports
⬇️⬇️
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Sean Miller keepin' on, keepin' on as head coach at Arizona.
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Arizona was down by at least nine points in every quarter and just ... kept ... coming and had one shot to win.
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This after Sean Miller says he wants to give his players more confidence. Sitting Hazzard for the entire half after his best week with Arizona because of one mistake, on a night the team had 18 turnovers (and didn't hit a 3 after halftime?
Sean Miller says he benched Max Hazzard in the second half, because he took a quick shot before halftime, which led to a Remy Martin layup w/ 2 seconds left.
“What team are you playing for? You take the last shot. That’s disciplined, that’s how you win basketball games.”
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Arizona's past 111 games: 93-18, only FOUR losses bigger than 4 points. Largest loss: 8 pts. Average margin of defeat: 3.6.
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Congrats to everyone who bet Arizona over 5.5 wins this season.
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Third national title in women's golf for Arizona: 1996, 2000, 2018.
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Sure, the young Arizona beat reporters get to cover Noah Fifita, but I had
@OrtegeJenkins16
and
@K12Elite
, and two is better than one 🤣🤣 (Photo from 2018)
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Arizona's 19 national championships:
8 - softball
4 - baseball
3 - women's golf
1 - men's basketball
1 - men's golf
1 - men's swimming/diving
1 - women's swimming/diving
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Imagine how disappointed you would be if Noah Fifita DID NOT start at QB against Oregon State in two weeks.
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"Seven years from now, I'll be the Super Bowl MVP." -- Nick Foles after an
#ArizonaWildcats
practice, maybe.
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Haley Moore with a 5-foot birdie to win her match and win the national title for Arizona.
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Did you know John Madden once played at Arizona Stadium? It was in 1959 in the debut of a somewhat forgotten piece of Tucson sports history...
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The rout of Washington State doesn't feel like a one-off. This feels like a best-is-yet-to-come moment.
👇👇👇
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The Arizona-Arizona State rivalry makes forever heroes. Welcome to Territorial Cup lore, Michael Wiley and Jacob Manu.
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Happy No. 1 day to all who celebrate.
The first time Arizona was No. 1 by the AP, in Dec. 1987, Congressman Mo Udall -- a former UA basketball player -- sent a congratulation telegram to the team hotel. Times have changed, but not the ranking.
Story: ⬇️
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I don't know how Jedd Fisch envisions his long coaching journey, but not many head coaches will be in a better position than him with Arizona in 2024. If he's hot now, he'll be in name-his-own-job territory a year from now.
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Never mind that INT, Noah Fifita has the third 500-yard passing game in Arizona history (508 right now, 520 is school record).
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First Arizona Basketball game I've been to as a regular fan since ... ever. Yeah, ever.
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Arizona has knocked off ranked teams in consecutive games for the first time since November 2014 (No. 20 Utah, No. 13 Arizona State).
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Since most are here looking for Arizona sports coverage, it's only fair to give you a life-change alert: I joined the Pima County Communications office last week, and I'm eager to get rolling with that new chapter. Will I still chime in on the Cats? Most definitely...
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Reunited 🎶
Many of the old Tucson Citizen sports crew got together for lunch and laughs today. We always had a fun, talented newsroom. And it’s always a delight to see the great Corky Simpson!
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No Ben Simmons tonight (stomach virus), so former
#ArizonaWildcats
guard T.J. McConnell gets the start for the 76ers on his 27th birthday.
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I once had to guard Duane Akina in a media vs. coaches basketball game at Camp Cochise. It did not end well for me.
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Chuck Cecil will be back for a second season as a defensive analyst for Arizona, this time under new head coach Kevin Sumlin, the school announces.
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Heath Bray wasn’t an All-American, or all-conference, or anything like that. But loud and lovable and passionate about all things Red and Blue, he’s forever on any All-Wildcats team.
Gone toon soon from the Arizona football family at 54.
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Are people just now realizing Lauri Markkanen is better than T.J. Leaf?
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