The Pac-10, for better or worse, has never been known for particularly intense, physical play. Heck, even their obligatory "conference teams as whatever" topic was, uh, wine. Be proud, left coasters. Be proud.So Mike Stoops, who loses football games, clearly must have seen a conference-wide toughness deficiency for the Wildcats to exploit during this off-season. How, you may ask? Intensifying their strength and conditioning training? Longer practices? Amped up recruiting?
Well... would you settle for four days of pretending they're in the Armed Forces?
Coach Mike Stoops announced Monday that the UA football team will practice at Fort Huachuca Aug. 13-16 as it prepares for a critical season.
The Wildcats will sleep in army barracks, practice on a pair of artificial-surface fields and spend much of their downtime with the troops. The practices will be open to the public.
Your move, Kellen Winslow.
To be fair, this isn't actually new for the Arizona program; they practiced at Camp Cochise as far back as the 1970s, and they were there as late as 2001, when John Mackovic decided to take the "Wreck The Arizona Wildcats Project" to dizzying new heights.
If the four practices at Fort Huachuca don't prove to be the single factor that pushes the Wildcats back into Pac-10 contention, they can always fall back on praying the opposing star QB's knee implodes. Hey, it worked once.
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7-02-2008 @ 1:00AM
Jason said...
3..2..1 until Marines start going ape-shit over the fact that R. Lee Ermey was not in the Army.
Otherwise, interesting find. Fort Huachuca is an Army intel school, so maybe Stoops will learn something. Or something.
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