My two cents: QB development one of 3 keys to UA season

Rich Rodriguez’s third Arizona football season swings on three factors:

• Splitting, at worst, road games against Utah and Washington State.   
• Deploying a quarterback, probably redshirt freshman Anu Solomon, who can avoid making the Killer Mistake.                                      
• Developing enough confidence and momentum that UA can sweep Washington and ASU in Nov. 15 and Nov. 28 home games, respectively.

I think it’s entirely possible Arizona will open 4-0 and finish 6-6 because no team in the conference enters the season with a more potentially troublesome quarterback situation.

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On the final football-free weekend of 2014, I see the Wildcats 6-5 as they take the field Nov. 28 against the Sun Devils.

If Rodriguez gets winning production from any of his four QBs, all of who project as No. 2 quarterbacks, and if Arizona somehow wins eight games again, he should be the Pac-12 Coach of the Year.