UA skipped out on longtime football tradition

For the first time since Larry Smith became Arizona’s football coach in 1980, the Wildcats did not have a formal, full-team, year-end banquet. Instead, the UA invited seniors-only to an abbreviated get together last Sunday, with no video highlights, no formal attire, no athletic director and no school president, as was the case a year earlier. Not even all of the UA assistant coaches attended the banquet, which had become a tradition over 35 years. When you finish in last place, it sometimes becomes an every-man-for-himself existence. 

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