Arizona Football: 6 Thoughts fans should ponder
No. 5 – Consider the fact that you may not know everything
Saturday night was hard to take all around after the Arizona Wildcats Football team lost to Stanford, not quite a blow-out like last season, but a significant loss none-the-less. As hard as it was for fans, it was more difficult for the football players, coaches and all of their family members.
In the media room at Lowell-Stevens Stadium, the camera’s started rolling as soon as Arizona Head Coach Rich Rodriguez stepped up to the hot seat. He was followed into the room by his whole family; wife Rita, son Rhett, daughter Raquel, his sister-in-law and his mother-in-law. They had just celebrated Rhett’s senior night at Catalina Foothills high school the night before, a jubilant event.
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It went as predicted, some questions he didn’t want to answer and some he was willing to answer. Then came the players, visibly upset. Jacob Alsadek, Demetrius Flannigan-Fowles, and brand new running back Samajie Grant.
It wasn’t pretty, and they explained how frustrated and upset the team was at their performance, they know they can do better. Football is a team sport, however, so if Rich Rod has lost half of his team, then that is the struggle at this point.
Alsadek explained that most of his teammates were taking this loss deeply. Samajie Grant explained that he blames himself, and he’s not the only one taking responsibility for the loss. Not one player made excuses.
Talking with the players, and their parents, you find out just how much they care, and they want fans to understand that they are working very hard, learning new plays every week, and attempting to adapt to the ever-growing injury ridden position rotation. If your teammates are constantly changing, the quarterback is always changing, your attempts to get some consistency is difficult.
By the way, for a play to work, the whole team has to perform their assignments not just the quarterback. And players who aren’t the quarterback took responsibility for not doing what they were supposed to do.