Where would the Arizona Wildcats be without Don Brown turning around their long-struggling defense? There’s a chance we may find out quite soon.
Pete Thamel of Yahoo! Sports is reporting that Brown “has emerged as the top candidate for the head coaching job at UMass,” which fired Walt Bell earlier this month after going 2-23 in 2-plus seasons.
Brown, 66, is in his first season at Arizona after spending the previous five years as Michigan’s defensive coordinator. Before that he’d spent his entire coaching career in the Northeast, including a 5-year stint as Massachusetts’ head coach from 2004-08.