Mike Stoops out at Arizona

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Arizona has relieved head coach Mike Stoops of his duties. Defensive coordinator Tim Kish will serve as the interim head coach. Arizona has lost its last five games, although four of those were to ranked teams. The most recent loss was to previously winless Oregon State. Arizona also ended last year on a five-game losing streak. Arizona has a bye this week and then the second half of the schedule commences. Stoops has won 23 games in the past three years and played in three bowl games, winning one. Arizona had not been to a bowl game in the previous decade. I think Arizona was a little too quick to pull the trigger on Mike Stoops. He had revived a down and out Arizona program and brought it back to respectability. I think he should have survived one bad season. At a minimum, he should have been allowed to finish out the season to see how he fared against an easier second half.