Coming off a bye week, Arizona is now looking to maintain their undefeated conference record with a trip to Washington.  Things looked good for the ‘Cats this weekend as Central Michigan, NAU, Iowa, and Oregon State (smashing ASU in Tempe…party) all pulled off victories.  Also it seems that most of the injured ‘Cats (Grigs, Keola, [...]

After the game at Iowa, RauRaur optimism hit a career low (not counting the John Mackovic era).  Then on came Nick Foles and his locks of greatness.  Him and his flowing hair picked apart the Beaver secondary, and fully took advantage of Arizona’s depth at receiver.  Nine different receivers caught the ball, and Arizona’s offense [...]

Very rough weekend.  Looking as bad as we did against Iowa and then hearing the official word that Gronk is out for the year (2010 Heisman!!!!) really hurts.  Going into our first conference game against a very good Oregon State team on the road is terrifying.  Then again, it was Matt Scott’s first time on [...]

“Robbie’s out for Saturday,” Stoops said. “We’ll make some kind of decision here on what to do next over the next couple of days but he won’t play Saturday against Iowa.”
The glorious return has been cancelled, and after that quote, it might be cancelled for a long while.  Gronk adds a superior presence in a [...]

The backup running backs looked great in Saturday’s scrimmage. Unfortunately, that’s partly because projected starter Nic Grigsby got ejected (video in link) for throwing a punch at Devin Ross on third play of the game. Y’oy…
It’s getting easier to determine who the starters are going to be, despite remaining position battles
With three starting Pac-10 QBs [...]

So, in our position battles discussion, we left out (at least one) of the most exciting, punt returner. One has to think Mike Thomas will be given first dibs. And if you watched the Keola Antolin video from our previous post, well, you know he’s a viable candidate. If you didn’t watch it, here’s another one. But [...]

We’re drunk with optimism right now… but it’s August 5th, who isn’t?
But while we have visions of Tuitama doing the Heisman and Money Mike Thomas with roses in his mouth, there are still some definite questions that need to be answered in this Fall Camp. Who will fill up the defensive line? Who will step [...]

To cap off Blue Ribbon’s preview of 2008 Arizona Football, we have the special teams, intangibles, and prediction. Arizona has had some impressive victories/stretches over the past few years (Homecoming two years in a row!) but also some horrible disappointments (New Mexico, God). And Blue Ribbon agrees, the time is now for the [...]