Positive publicity has been hard to come by for the Arizona Wildcats football program over the past two years.
After Rich Rodriguez was fired amid an off-field scandal in January 2018, Kevin Sumlin arrived with enormous expectations. But the on-field product hasn’t met them; Arizona has gone just 9-15 in Sumlin’s two seasons.
That lack of success has had a negative impact on recruiting, which was supposed to be a Sumlin strength. As of Saturday, the UA ranked 11th in the Pac-12 and 63rd nationally for 2020, according to 247Sports.
But not everybody sees it the way the analysts do.