... 2004. They embarked on a journey to turn around a program that had not had a winning season in six years, had suffered through four consecutive losing seasons, and was coming off a 2-10 season in 2003. Throw in consecutive 3-8 seasons to begin the Stoops era and Arizona football had become an afterthought in Tucson.

The Stoops brothers expertize is defense. Mark Stoops was hired by his brother to come to Arizona and clean things up as their defensive coordinator. He was leaving after a successful three-year stint as the secondary coach at Miami .

Mark Stoops announced earlier in December that he was leaving Arizona after six seasons to accept the defensive coordinator position at Florida State. Mark had been a big part of the turna...

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