ARIZONA FOOTBALL Sept. 22, 2003 Media Relations 520-621-4163 Tom Duddleston., Rich Paige, Alyssa Quintero – Football contacts Date Game - TV Score Atten Cats vs. Another Ranked Foe A 30 Texas-El Paso 42-7 40,264 S 6 #13 LSU (TBS national) 13-59 46,110 The Game – The University of Arizona (1-3, 0-1 in the Pacific-10) S 13 Oregon (TBS national) 10-48 40,462 closes its 2003 non-conference slate at home against the No. 19-ranked S 20 at #25 Purdue 7-59 52,310 Texas Christian University Horned Frogs (3-0, 1-0 in Conference USA) in S 27 #19 Texas Christian (WB-58) 7:07 p.m. MST an intersectional contest at 7:07 p.m. (MST/PDT) Saturday, Sept. 27, in O 4 at Washington State 2 p.m. PDT/MST 56,002-seat Arizona Stadium. The game will be produced by Fox Sports O 11 UCLA# 4 p.m. MST Net Arizona and shown tape-delay at 10:30 p.m. in Southern Arizona on KWBA-58, with Dave Sitton and Larry Smith calling the play. FSNA will O 25 at California 12:30 p.m. PDT/MST replay the game outside Tucson at 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28. N 1 at Oregon State 1 p.m. PST N 8 Washington% 4 p.m. MST N 15 Southern California 4 p.m. MST Some Game Themes –UA wraps up 2003 non-conference action…The Wildcats face another seemingly uphill battle, against a ranked team coming off N 28 at Arizona State (FSN) 1 p.m. MST a five-year string of bowl appearances… A young Wildcat offense faces a #Family Weekend; %Homecoming squad with a finish of fifth, first, 24th and first in the country in total defense in Times subject to change; Additional TV TBA the past four years… UA tries to stop the blood-letting of the three previous weeks, having been outscored by a 166-30 margin in losses to LSU, Oregon Game Tickets and Purdue… A game with inexperienced quarterbacks on both sides. UA has The McKale Center Ticket Office is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (520-621- used three and the Horned Frogs’ Brandon Hassell threw his first pass last 2287). Call 1-800-452-2287 toll-free. Game-day sales on the east side Saturday… Arizona works for its second non-conference victory of the year, of Arizona Stadium are from 10 a.m. until halftime. Online ticket sales and to emerge from September with a fighting chance… at arizonaathletics.com are offered 24/7 except after 10 a.m. game day. Game tickets range from $7-$20, or more if in priority seating The Series – Arizona leads 1-0. TCU returns the Wildcats’ 1999 trip to areas. Forth Worth, where UA won, 35-31. Arizona is 8-7 all time against the current schools in Conference USA, including a 4-6 mark against Arizona Football On TV Marquette, a school that no longer sponsors football. TCU was a Western The TCU game will be produced by Fox Sports Net Arizona for tape- Athletic Conference affiliate in 1999. delay showing at 10 p.m. Saturday on KWBA-58 in the Tucson market, and for a 4 p.m. Sunday re-play on FSNA outside the Tucson market. One other UA game has been pre-selected for national television and The Coaches – Arizona: John Mackovic (Wake Forest ’65), third year th UA partner FSNA may produce additional games. Games on FSN also at Arizona (10-17) and 16 season as a collegiate head coach (95-81-3). will be distributed by Fox Sports Digital Nets. Mackovic has a 3-1 record against Texas Christian, built during his six years as head coach at Texas. Texas Christian: Gary Patterson (Kansas Arizona Football on Radio State ’83), third year in Forth Worth and third year overall (19-8). Patterson KNST 790-AM Radio (Clear Channel) is the flagship station for live UA led the Frogs from a 6-6 mark in his first year to 10-2, the league football broadcasts on the Wildcat Sports Network. Brian Jeffries and championship and the Liberty Bowl title a year ago. Les Josephson call the play. Affiliates: KKNT Phoenix, KDAP Douglas, KVNA Flagstaff, KIKO Globe, KZUA Arizona Last Week – Purdue eschewed its gold uniforms of recent Holbrook, KLAV Las Vegas, KWRQ Safford, KTAN Sierra Vista, years and came out in black, then put a black-and-blue thumping on KNOT Prescott, KBLU Yuma. KTOX-Needles, KVSL Show Low. KNST Arizona in a 59-7 victory in West Lafayette, Ind. Kyle Orton threw three administers UA’s Spanish language broadcasts carried by KXEW touchdown passes, Jerome Brooks and Jerod Void reach ran for a pair of Tucson and XENY Nogales with Francisco Romero and Luis scores, and a rugged defense allowed the Wildcats only 174 yards in total Fernando Perez. KNST’s broadcast is available on the Internet for offense. UA brought another candidate into its quarterback mix, as true $6.95 monthly, through RealNetworks at arizonaathletics.com. Live freshman Kris Heavner saw second-half duty and led the Wildcats on their GameTracker stats can be followed at arizonaathletics.com. only scoring drive of the afternoon. Four Arizona turnovers led to 24 Purdue points. The Wildcats stayed tough for the first quarter, trailing only John Mackovic Coach’s Shows 7-0 after the opening stanza, but gave up 17 points in the second frame to Head coach John Mackovic’s weekly radio and television shows are trail by a sizeable margin at the break for the third consecutive game. The produced by KNST Radio, with host Brian Jeffries and the coach taping during "Tuesdays in the Huddle With John Mackovic,” a public Boilermakers found the going relatively easy on the ground – 292 yards -- gathering at McMahon’s Steakhouse at noon Tuesdays. The radio and through the air – 288 yards – to pile up 580 yards in total offense. UA show airs at 6 p.m. Tuesdays on KNST-790 AM and the TV segment is redshirt freshman Ryan O’Hara earned his first career start at quarterback broadcast at 9:30 p.m. Wednesdays on KWBA-58. but completed only seven of 15 passes for 39 yards. Sophomore Nic Costa fared no better with one completion in four attempts for 13 yards, Mackovic’s Weekly Media Gatherings plus led the Cats in rushing with three totes for 47 yards. Heavner, a John Mackovic will meet with the media weekly throughout the season forgotten man in UA’s first three games as Costa and O’Hara tried to win (except for bye weeks)) in McKale Center 106 at 1 p.m. Mondays. He the Cats signal-calling role, completed five passes in 12 attempts for 55 will conduct game reviews via teleconference at 3 p.m. Sundays. Call yards and helped lead the Cats on a scoring drive of five plays and 47 the UA SID office to obtain the teleconference details. Mackovic’s yards converting a third-quarter turnover into the Cats’ lone score. He segment on the weekly Pac-10 Coaches teleconference is at 10 a.m. completed a 36-yard pass to Biren Ealy for the touchdown. But Purdue (PT) Tuesdays. Media may call the UA SID office to get the phone averaged seven yards on 83 offensive plays to define the game, and number. Arizona was forced to punt 11 times, with soph Danny Baugher having his best day in awhile (8-43.4). UA did not get into the red zone and Purdue Check arizonaathletics.com for football news, ticketing and was 5-for-5 inside UAS’s 20 yard-line. Arizona suffered its most lopsided information on all 19 University of Arizona sports programs. loss in 13 seasons, dating to a 54-0 beating at Washington in 1991. The Cats’ 1-3 record matched the 1997 team’s start as the most rugged in recent years. Noting the Horned Frogs… Texas Christian University; Fort Worth ** Enrollment: 8,066 ** Colors: Purple & White ** Conference: Conference USA ** 2002 Record: 10-2 TCU scored the final 23 points in the game to beat Vanderbilt, 30-14, Saturday… Head coach Gary Patterson’s been part of the Horned Frogs resurgence since 1998, bringing good defense to a school that since has recorded two 10-victory seasons and five consecutive bowl trips. He earned 2002 Conference USA Coach of the Year honors… He was TCU’s defensive coordinator when it suffered a narrow loss to UA in Fort Worth, 35-31, in 1999 and was elevated to the head spot the next year. He was New Mexico’s defensive coordinator and safeties coach when the Lobos fell to UA, 20-14, in the 1997 Insight.com. Bowl…TCU runs a 4-2-5 defense, not totally dissimilar to the look Arizona shows with its rover- back in the game this year… On the other side of the ball, the Frogs have a superb blend of rushing and passing, averaging roughly 200 yards each per game. But they work at the running game, with a 2:1 ratio of runs to passes… Sophomore Lonta Hobbs, a 1,000-yard rusher a year ago, again leads the club, with 181 yards. He scored three touchdowns in the season opener and has 17 scores in his 11 career games. In his debut 2002 season he averaged 6.6 yards per carry… But redshirt freshman Robert Merrill had his first carries of the year – 29 times for 119 yards – in the victory over Vanderbilt on Saturday… Sophomore quarterback Tye Gunn injured his shoulder in practice Sept.