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BURBANK, California — The question was certain to come up, much to Arizona head coach Rich Rodriguez’s chagrin.
“I was in a good mood, now you made me mad,” he joked at Friday’s session of Pac-12 media days at Warner Bros. Studios.
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Rodriguez tried to analogize his mindset to a scene from “The Lion King,” in which Rafiki the baboon hits Simba the lion over the head with a stick.