Tag: Ronnie Palmer
RauRaur’s Required Reading (8/14)
Yes, Arizona lost a lot of starters on defense, but we still have Ronnie Palmer, and he was just named to the Butkus Award watch list for nation’s top linebacker. (This now makes 8 Wildcats on preseason watch lists)
Arizona has moved camp from the Old Pueblo to Fort Huachuca for the rest of the [...]
Posted by Sherrick
August 14th, 2008
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RauRaur’s Required Reading (8/11)
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 [...]
Posted by Sherrick
August 11th, 2008
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Virtual ‘Cats
(Editor’s Note: Today, Greg Hansen took readers through a predicted 2008 football season from aboard an imaginary “Mike Stoops Bandwagon.” We at RauRaur have employed an equally ridiculous concept for this “crystal ball” article… a preview derived by a series of ones and zeros that collectively are known as EA Sports’ NCAA Football 2009. The [...]
Posted by Sherrick
August 4th, 2008
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Matching Up
Arizona was ranked 7th in the Pac-10 by the media, just ridiculous. Especially when you look at where our individual players match up against others in the Pac-10. Ted Miller of ESPN.com has been compiling rankings of positional players in the conference and Arizona is up there in each category.
Quarterbacks - #2 Willie Tuitama (Though, [...]
Posted by Sherrick
July 28th, 2008
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Defense
On the defensive side of the ball, things are not as impressive. The Wildcats only return 3 defensive starters, opposed to 10 on offense, and have to move on without
Antoine Cason and All-Awesome Spencer Larsen. But then again last year’s defense was probably the worst in the Stoops’ era and there is definitely room [...]
Posted by Sherrick
July 10th, 2008
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