WSR Gridiron Report

Wow... if Adam Hall was pressured into burning his red-shirt in a last ditch attempt by Stoops to keep his job.... Holy Smokes! I REALLY hope that didn't happen. Has anyone else heard anything about this?

Ricky, I really respect your vast knowledge and keen insight.... but what purpose does any of this serve?

1. NO redshirt can be pulled without the student agreeing.

2. It's way too easy to scapegoat someone and frankly not one thing in Stoops entire history here indicates that he would stand alone against his staff and force a kid to come back and lose a season of eligibility... " search your feelings Luke, you know this to be true"

3. I trust your sources, but doubt seriously that Herbstreet was that one sided. He is always a balanced and gracious commentator. getting information second or third hand is just asking for there to be omissions and misunderstood points. Again - that's just not who Kirk is. I have no doubt he may have taken a side and frankly most anything he could say about Arizona was probably true when Mike got here.

I'm one who actually thinks Arizona's game day activities are crap. Granted, not totally crappy but by comparison to the many college campuses I've visited on football Saturday's pretty crappy.

For starters, the 5-hour thing is pure horsesh*t. You're not tailgating if you're not already settled in and drinking 7-8 hours before the game, at least in big boy football. Second, when I was at Arizona in the 1990's and the Greek System was actually alive and well, once you crossed Speedway, Broadway or Campbell, you knew you were at a football game. The entire campus was abuzz. Every fraternity was hosting parties with neighboring sororities. You could walk on campus and get five beers handed to you from five different tailgates.

Today, there's too many rules, but that's just my opinion.

I dislike the way the national media is playing this altogether. Everyone says with a smear that we should have been happy with stoops and that we will never find someone better. The worst so far though was in our own local paper. Old Greg's article this morning was a disgrace. I don't think we need anymore proof that old greg is an enemy of the U of A and should be treated as such. Lute got that one right for sure.

Article was a disgrace, and Herbstreit proved how ill-informed he is. As you guys just mentioned, it's okay to suggest our facilities need an upgrade, but completely biased when you degrade our facilities yet fail to acknowledge that a massive $80 million stadium project is underway, the third largest scoreboard has been installed. Further, while you're at Herbstreit, why don't you ignore Arizona's new, young, aggressive, and committed to building a winning tradition in football AD Greg Byrne. He can take one of his "Herbie" awards and shove it straight up Hansen's arse.

I don't care what the national apologists say, KH may be one, but that is media posturing. This is all total crap, Arizona has a good game day crowd but it could be better once we get a coach who knows what the &^#%$ he is doing.

This is ridiculous. I have never liked that Icabod crane looking mother f*cker Bo Pelini and now hate him even more. Why Stoops continues to be friends with that ugly arrogant piece of sh!t is beyond me after he let Landry tee-off on Tuitama.

him b!tching about loyalty is totally horsesh!t, I mean for f*ck sake Stoops started flirting with Iowa State the minute he had a winning season. IOWA STATE vs ARIZONA? WTF!? THE F*CKING CYCLONES!? Give me a God damned break.

8 years is about enough, getting rolled in his two latest bowl games with no reasonable hope to extend the streak to a 4th bowl game where we will get rolled plus the losing streak across two seasons when you have the talent we have is unacceptable.

It's great that there is a coaching fraternity...it's a tough, sometimes thankless profession BUT THEY MAKE $1+ million dollars a year when providing a paltry $30+ million in revenue. They make a lot, in part, because of the pressure and short life span. I can guarantee you that if Bob or Bo got absolutely rolled in two straight bowl games and then opened a season 1-5 they wouldn't have much job security.

The one thing Hansen did touch on that I agreed with is that Mike had very little emotional equity in this community. He never embraced our community (publicly at least, I know he did a lot of charitable work behind the scenes) or our traditions. So naturally he had very little wiggle room WHEN HE LOST TEN GODDAMNED STRAIGHT DIVISION ONE GAMES!

Had he got us to a Rose Bowl, or won even 2 of 3 bowls games it is a different story, but he didn't so d!ckhead Bo's remarks are out of bounds in my view.

Larry did do that. He even said he and Tomey both supported Mackovic. That was on the post game radio show. I was kind of shocked because Mack's team never showed any of the fire Larry's team did.