From the Arizona Daily Star Sunday Greg Hansen column:

For 59 minutes Saturday it was great theater played before 48,503 fans and 10,000 empty seats. The Beavers were playing to preserve an opportunity to go to the Rose Bowl for the first time since the Dark Ages, and the Wildcats were playing to prove that they had evolved from a scrambling mediocrity to a dead-on, prime-time bowl game TV slot against someone from the big leagues.

“I’ve got no problem with the way the kids played tonight,” said Stoops. “But we’re still in the process.”

It is the same sort of process shown by Rio Nuevo, isn’t it? A lot of chatter. A very slow process.