Marcio Jose Sanchez, AP
TUCSON, Ariz. — First-year Arizona coach Kevin Sumlin has a reputation for developing productive, prolific quarterbacks.
Everybody knows he coached Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel at Texas A&M. But before that, Sumlin was around Drew Bledsoe at Washington State, Drew Brees at Purdue, Jason White and Sam Bradford at Oklahoma and Case Keenum at Houston.
Now, as he prepares for his first game as the Wildcats’ coach Saturday (8:45 p.m., MDT, ESPN) against BYU, Sumlin has inherited another star QB — junior Khalil Tate, a Heisman Trophy candidate.
But Sumlin knows that quarterbacks, no matter how talented, can’t win games by themselves.