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Hansen's Sunday Notebook: Recruiting is key to keep up with Pac-12

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The staff directory for Arizona’s athletic department lists three new special assistants to the athletic director: Jeff Casteel, Bill Kirelawich and David Lockwood.

Those are three of Rich Rodriguez’s former defensive assistant coaches who were fired in December. They remain on payroll through June 30 for a composite payoff close to $600,000.

That’s one of the reasons RichRod concluded spring drills Friday by telling reporters, “We’ve got to get more (defensive) people, and I’m not convinced right now that we’ve got a lot of people we can win with.