Practice report
Arizona football wore red helmets in practice on Thursday, a signal that the season is now less than a week away.
It sounds like no one is more anxious for the season to get started than Rich Rodriguez. Arizona’s head coach said he always gets this way leading up to a new year, and not because he likes the feeling.
“I’m more nervous about the first game every year because we don’t have anything to gauge it off of,” Rodriguez told reporters after practice. “I’m a little nervous that we’re inexperienced at certain positions and that we’re not as deep at certain positions as we want to be.