Arizona
Brent Brennan Reportedly Eying More Changes To Arizona’s Coaching Staff
This is expected to be a frenzied offseason in Tucson as Brent Brennan looks to get the Arizona Wildcats football program back on track after a disastrous campaign where they won just four games coming off their 10-win performance last year.
It was shocking how poorly Arizona played on a consistent basis, and because of that, there are real qeustion marks about how things will look going forward.
Outside of players planning on entering the transfer portal when it opens on Dec. 9 with tight end Dorian Thomas, running back Rayshon “Speedy” Luke, and quarterback Brayden Dorman all announcing their intentions, other changes are expected to come.
Offensive coordinator Dino Babers won’t be back in 2025, and based on how that side of the ball performed, it was an easy decision to make.
But, it seems like Brennan isn’t thinking about stopping there.
Per Jason Scheer of 247Sports, the head coach is weighing all options when it comes to how things are going to look next year.
“Sources indicate to WildcatAuthority.com that Arizona head coach Brent Brennan will evaluate the coaching staff after Signing Day and no coach has been told that he will be let go,” he reports.
The early signing period started on Dec. 4, and with the Wildcats focused on securing players committed in their 2025 class, making staff changes is not something at the top of the to-do list.
However, that doesn’t mean there won’t be a shake up.
What might occur isn’t quite known as this point, especially with Brennan seemingly having the backing of Arizona’s new athletic director despite the horrendous showing this season, but Scheer also indicates there might not be sweeping changes.
“… there is a legitimate possibility that there is simply some reshuffling within the current coaching staff and Brennan will bring in one coach to replace Babers. It is unknown at this time if that coach will be brought in to call plays or if Matt Adkins will take over as full time offensive coordinator with a new coach focusing on a different position,” the insider adds.
It’s safe to say that might not be the most popular decision.
While Babers was the offensive coordinator throughout the entire campaign, Brennan stripped him of his play calling duties and handed those over to Matt Adkins.
That alteration didn’t amount to much as Arizona finished with only 21.8 points per game this year compared to 34.6 the season prior.
Arizona
Mixed Arizona reaction to Trump’s chilling post before ceasefire deal
PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A ceasefire announced Tuesday will suspend the war in Iran for two weeks and Iranian officials said they will negotiate with the United States starting Friday.
President Donald Trump agreed to a deal hours after he posted “a whole civilization will die tonight” on social media.
Before news broke about the cease-fire, Democratic Rep. Yassamin Ansari of Arizona introduced articles of impeachment Monday against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Ansari, the daughter of Iranian immigrants, is also part of a growing list of Democrats calling for Trump to be impeached.
“Iran is a country of 90 million people. Threatening them with annihilation is a monstrous war crime and puts them and American service members and Americans at grave risk,” Ansari said in a video posted Monday on social media. “As a chief enabler of this illegal war, Pete Hegseth is responsible for directing this insane military action against Iran, which has already killed thousands of civilians, led to the unnecessary deaths of American service members, and displaced over a million people in the region.”
Not everyone with strong ties to Iran agrees with her.
“I don’t see why they should be impeached,” said Amirdanial Azimi. He is the president of the Iranian Students Association at Arizona State University (ASU). He grew up in Iran and has family and friends there right now.
“Speaking to my friends and relatives, I’ve realized that they’re more scared of their own government than they are like external forces like the United States and Israel,” Azimi said.
Azimi predicted Trump would not follow through with his threat to destroy Iran.
“I do take offense, like Iranians do take offense, like they don’t want their civilizations to be wiped off,” Azimi said. “This is the fault of the Iranian regime, their government, because they’ve been chanting death to Israel, death to America for the past years.”
Hessam Rahimian is a refugee turned American citizen. He said he escaped Iran decades ago, where his uncle was murdered and his cousins remain in jail. He said schoolchildren are taught to chant “death to America” every day.
He said he has hundreds of family members and friends still in Iran. In Arizona, Rahimian organizes rallies in support of the war to raise awareness about the reality of life in Iran and the thousands of protesters killed by the Iranian government.
Before the attack was called off, Rahimian said it was challenging to process Trump’s threat to wipe out his home country.
“So he did say that, but he has also said, in the same token today, that the Iranian people are good people, and he will do his best to make sure that they’re safe. So which one you go with, again, I go back to his actions in the past year, it has been against the Islamic regime and not the Iranian people,” Rahimian said. “Would I like for him not to use that language? Of course, absolutely. But we also know that the war talk takes place and they say things to create fear.”
Daniel Rothenberg is a politics and global studies professor at ASU. He said the biggest question is why the U.S. is at war in the first place.
“This is, above all, a war of choice. The U.S. was not attacked. There was no imminent threat from Iran,” Rothenberg said.
Rothenberg said Trump has not clearly explained the point of the war that is costing billions of dollars a day and countless human lives or what a victory would look like.
“Wars tend to end through negotiations, not through military victory,” Rothenberg said. “I mean, what does it mean to wipe out a civilization? And frankly, why would you even make that sort of threat? What’s the purpose?”
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Arizona
Kroger, Albertsons sued by Arizona, seven other states seeking antitrust lawsuit expense reimbursement
Kroger Co. and Albertsons Cos. Inc. have been sued by Arizona and seven other states and the District of Columbia, all of which are seeking to be reimbursed for costs they incurred while fighting a merger between the two grocers that later failed on antitrust grounds.
The coalition of plaintiffs, which also includes the Federal Trade Commission, is seeking $10.3 million from Cincinnati-based supermarket giant Kroger and Boise, Idaho-based grocery rival Albertsons, according to the lawsuit filed March 31 in U.S. District Court in Portland, Ore.
Kroger is the parent company of Fry’s Food Stores in the Valley, and Albertsons owns the Safeway brand in Arizona.
Read more of this story from the Business Journal.
Arizona
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