Noel Mazzone echoed what Kevin Sumlin has said about Khalil Tate: The goal is to transform him from an athlete playing quarterback to a quarterback who happens to be an amazing athlete.
No one on the Arizona Wildcats coaching staff will play a bigger role in that process than Mazzone, the veteran QB guru and offensive coordinator who Sumlin imported from Texas A&M.
Mazzone, who has worked with numerous standout quarterbacks over the course of his long coaching career, began working with Tate in the spring. Mazzone inherited a player who burst onto the national scene last season but still has room for growth and refinement.