In deciding to fire Kevin Sumlin on Saturday, Arizona Wildcats athletic director Dave Heeke knew it was going to place another huge financial burden on the school’s already strained budget. But not as much as opting not to make a change could have potentially had.
“We could not afford not to do that,” Heeke said Friday, via a Zoom press conference to discuss the search for a new football coach. “We had to move forward. Quite frankly, a failure to act would have resulted in significant compounding of our financial outlook and would have had real serious consequences moving forward.