Top 25 AZ Sports Stories of 2011: #10 The U of A coaching change

Dec 27, 2011, 6:16 PM | Updated: 6:25 pm

The staff of ArizonaSports.com has compiled their list
of the top 25 Arizona sports stories of the year 2011.
We’ll be unveiling them over the next couple of weeks all
leading up to the top story of 2011.

In October of 2010, the Arizona Wildcats football team was
sitting on
top of the world — or at least as close to the top as
that program has been in quite some time.

A day before Halloween, the ‘Cats had just beaten UCLA 29-
21 to push their record to 7-1 and raise them to #15 in
the national rankings. That’s when the trouble started.

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