In an ideal world, Kevin Sumlin would have been a success at Arizona. The coach would have seen Tucson as a place where he could resuscitate his career and would have put in the work to make it happen.
Sure, he may have ultimately left for a bigger job, but the program would have been in a good place when he chose to do so.
That’s not what happened. Not at all.
The Sumlin era was a disaster, so much so that the football program was practically forced to make a change, even during a pandemic that limited the financial resources.