Arizona Wildcats: 2011 Exit Survey

Mike Stoops ran the show at Arizona for eight years. It took him five years before Arizona finished with a winning record (8-5 in 2008). 8-5 was the best record Stoops would post in his days in Tucson. This year was his final year and he went out at 4-8 which would mark his worst season since his first two. There is a reason that the college football podcasters The Solid Verbal coined the phrase "Nick Foles in a Losing Effort". There were a lot of losing efforts for Arizona in 2011. After beating Northern Arizona 41-10 in the opener, there wasn't a lot of fun for Stoops and company. To be fair, the opening stretch of Arizona's schedule was as brutal as anybody in the Nation (at Oklahoma State, Stanford, Oregon, at USC). The Wildcats never recovered from that stretch and neither did their coach as the Wildcats said goodbye to Stoops in early October and hired Rich Rodriguez to run the show in 2012. After going just 4-8, it will be very interesting to see how the Wi...