AG's Wildcat Report

10/04/2024

Did you see that social media post this week about the most obscure team each Big 12 school has ever played? I did. I decided to investigate a 107-year-old game. Here is what I found:

The post declared that the Arizona Wildcats' most obscure football foe was Camp Harry Jones during the 1917 season.

09/29/2024

An updated look at former Arizona grad assistants/assistants/head coaches as FBS head coaches:

4-0: Jose Heupel, Tennessee
3-1: Brent Brennan, Arizona
3-2: Sonny D***s, TCU
3-2: Mark Stoops, Kentucky
1-3: Rich Rodriguez, Jacksonville St.
1-3: Ryan Walters, Purdue
1-4: Don Brown, UMass

09/29/2024

For all the first-month hand-wringing, the whining, the moaning, the unearned certainty on social media that new head coach Brent Brennan was in over his head and should promptly go back to the Mountain West, the Wildcats did the one thing that was most important in September.

Beat Utah.

In Salt Lake City.

And, just like that, the Arizona Wildcats are back in the thick of it.

09/01/2024

I wrote last year that Tetairoa McMillan was “a unicorn in an Arizona uniform.” In 2024, he’s even better. Thoughts on T-Mac’s epic opening night:

Arizona’s 2024 season is the Year of Noah Fifita and Tetairoa McMillan, so it was only fitting that on only the third snap of the season, Fifita threw deep to

08/25/2024

The Dick Tomey vibes are strong again around the Wildcats program.

Seems like the right time, for the first time, to publicly share this video from the 20-year reunion of the 1998 team that went 12-1. Tomey's messages resonate then, now, and always.

Hit the link to watch: ⬇️⬇️
https://gophnx.com/watch-dick-tomey-wildcats-1998-reunion/

08/16/2024

Fresh storylines.
Immense talent.
Expanded CFB playoff.

2024 could be the wildest ride yet for the Arizona Wildcats.

The Arizona Wildcats are ranked No. 21 in the Associated Press preseason poll, which is fine, kinda cool, certainly rare in the past quarter century … and

08/09/2024

Happy retirement to Nick Foles, who passed for the most yards in Arizona history, had the best pro career of any Wildcats QB ... and authored what I consider the second-best play by an Arizona Wildcat in postseason history. Or should it be No. 1?

The Arizona Wildcats are well-represented in the Major League Baseball postseason with Kevin Ginkel turning into a relief ace for the Arizona Diamondbacks.