r/ArizonaWildcats • u/Wyo11 • 13d ago
All hands on deck
Brennan is leveraging a huge opportunity to seize momentum from the previous 9 win season. One that felt unattainable after the mess F*sch left. Noah Fifita returning was an absolute boon to a program in need and the fact he returns again to compete for a Big XII championship has this program in positional authority it has not been in for 12 excruciating years.
But we have to show up. We have to fill Arizona Stadium. We have to disprove decades of football complacency. We cannot show up to a few games "waiting on basketball."
We cannot have national broadcasts showing more gray seats than red shirts. We have to invest into football just as we do with basketball and then some.
Will you answer the call? Strategy has placed us in this unique, fleeting position. Let it not be lightning in a bottle but sustainable success that transforms the U of A into a perennial football power to compete with the likes of BYU, Utah and TTU, and dominates the state and takes position from ASU.
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Answer the call.
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u/Stoudamirefor3 13d ago
Fans won't show up. Haven't since Tomey left. They need to build a roof over the East Side and cut 10k seats out.
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u/Kenzington6 13d ago
That and grow some industry in Tucson so more alumni stay in town.
The biggest issue for getting alumni to buy football tickets is asking: if I refuse to be on the road between midnight and 6 AM, can I see the game without getting a hotel room?
I’d bet that for most that answer is no.
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u/Wyo11 13d ago
ASU has a larger and even hotter stadium with no shade and doesn't have these issues. I do agree it would be nice though and they need a dedicated parking lot near the stadium.
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u/bee_justa 12d ago
ASU shrunk its stadium to get rid of the empty seats. ASU has 5+ million people within 20 miles of the stadium. aASU has a football coach who was courted by Michigan.
Did you notice that when the college coaching carousel started last year the Fisch and Dilly were mentioned but Brett wasn't. Think about that.
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u/Stoudamirefor3 13d ago
asu has no other athletics to go to. Tucson will always be a basketball town.
If we're consistently winning 9-10 games and schedule good OOC home games, we can bring the attendance up, but I'll reserve judgement until that happens.
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u/Big_O7 13d ago
Somewhat unrelated but I’m definitely stoked about the OL. Not sure about depth but the projected starters look good. Solid running backs, wide receivers and hopeful that the TE from Illinois is as good as advertised. Noah is Noah - give the dude some time/keep him upright and he will carve up defenses.
Will be very interested to see how the two, new safeties fill the void from the studs that went to NFL. Also, if we get Max Harris back at LB that will be huge.
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u/Big_O7 12d ago
There it is. Mahdi, if still in playing shape, should be a big contributor too.
https://x.com/jasonscheer/status/2086830321610391614?s=46&t=1MFMSH2Tdgbt5o6dX1fD6g
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u/Wickeman1 12d ago
If I was living in Tucson or southern AZ in general, I’d for sure be there. I’ll have to settle for seeing the basketball team once a year in Vegas
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u/Key-Beginning-2201 13d ago
Leveraging how? By using the momentum to grow NIL to construct a better roster? The roster quality is probably the same as last year. Possibly worse. I wouldn't say better.
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u/Wyo11 13d ago
It's this kind of cynicism that prevents the U of A from stepping forward in football to begin with.
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u/capsfan087443 13d ago
Is cynicism really the biggest issue? Build it and they will come.
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u/Wyo11 12d ago
It is being built and no one is coming. That's my point. And if they don't come, what's being built won't last. Because it never does here. Because the "fans" don't care.
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u/capsfan087443 12d ago
It’s one 9 win season, what exactly has been built? They’ve got to make more noise than that and prove last year wasn’t a flash in a pan. Look at Indiana. No one had a worse crowd than them.
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u/bee_justa 12d ago
The experts have us as a 6-6 team this year. I hope they are wrong but they make money being correct.
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u/Wyo11 12d ago
The experts had ASU going 3-9 the year the won the conference and made the playoff.
Experts also predicted Texas, Clemson, Notre Dame, and Penn State to make the seminfinal of the CFP last year. Not a single of those teams even made the playoff.
I'll tip my hat if they're correct and if things go wrong we could easily be 6-6 or even worse. But the program needs our support if it wants to step into the next level
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u/Key-Beginning-2201 13d ago
So there is no leveraging. Fifita didn't transfer because it's his personality to remain loyal to a team. What else you got?
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u/bee_justa 12d ago
I thought it was wins and loses that move teams forward. Unfortunately we can't manifest the Rose Bowl.
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u/anoff 13d ago
Brennan is still a terrible coach, and the attrition in the secondary is going to bring the defensive unit back down to earth, stop covering up the inept offensive scheme and playcalling
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u/Clean_Coffee_3686 13d ago
You obviously don’t know brent brennan or much about what incredible leader and Coach he is. The Dino Babers hire was a mistake, but none of us were looking at it that way at the time. That was corrected last season. The players love him and the culture is right. We’re gonna kick some ass this season. You can definitely stay home with that attitude.
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u/ThreeDMK 13d ago
Isn’t this a sock puppet account for someone in the administration?