No one will ever confuse Don Brown with Dick Vermeil, but even he couldn’t contain his emotions talking about Arizona finally ending its long losing streak.
“I get choked up thinking about it: 700-plus days,” Brown said Tuesday. “I mean, damn. And we got an effort like that? The game of football introduces a man to himself, for sure. Happy for the guys. I’m probably more happy for the type of guys that have been there the whole time. I mean, that’s toughing it out.”
Brown, in his first season as Arizona’s defensive coordinator, has transformed that unit into one of the best in the Pac-12 as well as in the upper half of FBS.