On the morning of Tuesday, Jan 16, 2018, a new era of Arizona football began. New head coach Kevin Sumlin walked into the Lowell-Stevens Facility at 10:00 a.m. accompanied by Arizona president Robert Robbins and Director of Athletics Dave Heeke, ready to begin his next journey in Tucson.
The conference room was stuffed full of former Wildcat football players, current players, dozens of media outlets and with it all, there existed a buzz that has been missing for several years. The man who won SEC Coach of the Year in 2012 and whose offense helped shape Purdue’s Drew Brees, Houston’s Case Keenum and Texas A&M’s Johnny Manziel was now the head coach in Tucson.