If there is one thing that Kevin Sumlin has to get right to make sure that his second season with the Arizona Wildcats is better than his first, it’s this: his relationships with star quarterback Khalil Tate.
That relationship, along with that of Tate and the UA’s offensive coordinator, Noel Mazzone, will ultimately hold more weight on Arizona’s success in 2019 than anything else.
If Sumlin and Mazzone can get Khalil to resemble the player Wildcats’ fans saw in 2017, when he broke onto the college football scene in somewhat legendary fashion (racking up over 3m000 all purpose yards and 26 touchdowns mostly by running the football), then the Wildcats have a good chance of exceeding their very modest expectations this year.