Offense shows lack of 'polish' in scrimmage

If Saturday night's "Fan Appreciation Night" and intersquad scrimmage showed 3,200 UA football fans anything, it's that change doesn't happen overnight, or at least over a summer.

The defense was dominant in the 90-minute scrimmage, tallying nine sacks and three interceptions, making the first fall scrimmage under new head coach John Mackovic look quite a bit like the "Red-Blue" scrimmages from the Dick Tomey era.

"It was sloppy, to say the least," Mackovic said of the team's offensive performance. "It was as poorly as we've performed all fall on offense."