Arizona State, much like its power five program brethren, have been (and will be) plenty busy this month hosting a plethora of recruits from the 2022 class. The weekend of June 11th is likely to go down as the busiest 48 hours of official visitors for ASU in a quiet period that began just over a week and a half ago. Let's take a look at the scheduled list of visitors and where their recruitment stands:
Tevin White is the most notable visitor this weekend, and not only because he's a four-star prospect and a top 10 all-purpose back recruit. This Virginia running back was considering the likes of Georgia and Penn State for quite a while, but the recruiting process with Arizona State for a few months now, and it's been nearly a year since he first got offered by the Sun Devils, has been very positive and just picking up more and more steam from there on out. Consequently, he’s a mere shoo-in to be the next 2022 prospect to commit to the Sun Devils, and in fact, he and his parents have been in the valley since early this week which is hardly a bad sign. All in all, the next 48 hours should be the proverbial rubber stamp for a prospect that we predicted weeks ago will be part of this 2022 Arizona State recruiting class, with his decision date scheduled for June 24th.
Mississippi State defensive lineman commit Jacarius Clayton is the other four-star prospect visiting Tempe this weekend. He committed just over a year ago to the Bulldogs and six months before head coach Mike Leach was hired by the program. Thus, it stands to reason that the coaching change is having him look around. While he did receive other power five offers such as Oregon, Arkansas, and Ole Miss, it’s ASU who, while marking his last such offer to date that will get to host him this weekend. Even though he's a lengthy 6-6 lineman, he is projected as a defensive tackle, a position that the Sun Devils do need to build depth in short order for the future. It will be interesting to see if this visit makes strong enough of an impact to entertain other suitors in the weeks and months to come before signing day, let alone flip to another school.
Colston Loveland is a high three-star prospect out of Idaho who is another recruit that has been racking up offers from power five schools since last July, and the spring has also attracted the attention of Alabama and Michigan. Nonetheless, it almost seems like a given that he will end up at a Pac-12 school as he visited the University of Arizona last weekend and will end the month of June visiting Oregon State and Colorado on back-to-back weekends. All in all, here’s a prospect that ASU has been doing very well with so far and could benefit from a potential summer decision by the top 20 tight end prospect in the 2022 class.
Trevon McAlpine is not the only prospect ASU is targeting from the state of Alabama in this cycle, and in turn, the Sun Devils are not the only Pac-12 program the defensive lineman is looking at, as he has already visited Colorado the week before. McAlpine, too has a busy month of visits ahead of him with trips to Kansas State and West Virginia in the last two weekends of this month. It appears that he is poised, much like most of the prospects officially visiting ASU in June, to make a decision before the beginning of his senior season.
Nikolas Hall is one of two offensive linemen visiting this weekend and is yet another prospect where his Tempe visit was preceded by a trip to Colorado. Oklahoma State and Kentucky are his remaining visits this month. He was offered only two months ago by the Sun Devils, but the fact that he will already be on campus this weekend is a clear indication that the process has been moving rapidly and in a positive direction for Arizona State.
Matt Fries is the other offensive lineman that's going to be on the ASU campus this weekend and rounds out the list of six prospects that will be in Tempe for an official visit. ASU only offered Fries three months ago in early March, yet ironically the other two schools he's visiting in the upcoming weeks, Indiana and Illinois, ended up being later offers. On the surface, it would seem that it may be a challenge having this New Jersey product lured away from programs that are much closer to home. Nonetheless, you'll never have a chance at landing any recruit if you don’t at the very least have them on campus seeing what you have to offer.
We plan to have post-visit feedback from the visitors starting on Sunday.
Tevin White is the most notable visitor this weekend, and not only because he's a four-star prospect and a top 10 all-purpose back recruit. This Virginia running back was considering the likes of Georgia and Penn State for quite a while, but the recruiting process with Arizona State for a few months now, and it's been nearly a year since he first got offered by the Sun Devils, has been very positive and just picking up more and more steam from there on out. Consequently, he’s a mere shoo-in to be the next 2022 prospect to commit to the Sun Devils, and in fact, he and his parents have been in the valley since early this week which is hardly a bad sign. All in all, the next 48 hours should be the proverbial rubber stamp for a prospect that we predicted weeks ago will be part of this 2022 Arizona State recruiting class, with his decision date scheduled for June 24th.
Mississippi State defensive lineman commit Jacarius Clayton is the other four-star prospect visiting Tempe this weekend. He committed just over a year ago to the Bulldogs and six months before head coach Mike Leach was hired by the program. Thus, it stands to reason that the coaching change is having him look around. While he did receive other power five offers such as Oregon, Arkansas, and Ole Miss, it’s ASU who, while marking his last such offer to date that will get to host him this weekend. Even though he's a lengthy 6-6 lineman, he is projected as a defensive tackle, a position that the Sun Devils do need to build depth in short order for the future. It will be interesting to see if this visit makes strong enough of an impact to entertain other suitors in the weeks and months to come before signing day, let alone flip to another school.
Colston Loveland is a high three-star prospect out of Idaho who is another recruit that has been racking up offers from power five schools since last July, and the spring has also attracted the attention of Alabama and Michigan. Nonetheless, it almost seems like a given that he will end up at a Pac-12 school as he visited the University of Arizona last weekend and will end the month of June visiting Oregon State and Colorado on back-to-back weekends. All in all, here’s a prospect that ASU has been doing very well with so far and could benefit from a potential summer decision by the top 20 tight end prospect in the 2022 class.
Trevon McAlpine is not the only prospect ASU is targeting from the state of Alabama in this cycle, and in turn, the Sun Devils are not the only Pac-12 program the defensive lineman is looking at, as he has already visited Colorado the week before. McAlpine, too has a busy month of visits ahead of him with trips to Kansas State and West Virginia in the last two weekends of this month. It appears that he is poised, much like most of the prospects officially visiting ASU in June, to make a decision before the beginning of his senior season.
Nikolas Hall is one of two offensive linemen visiting this weekend and is yet another prospect where his Tempe visit was preceded by a trip to Colorado. Oklahoma State and Kentucky are his remaining visits this month. He was offered only two months ago by the Sun Devils, but the fact that he will already be on campus this weekend is a clear indication that the process has been moving rapidly and in a positive direction for Arizona State.
Matt Fries is the other offensive lineman that's going to be on the ASU campus this weekend and rounds out the list of six prospects that will be in Tempe for an official visit. ASU only offered Fries three months ago in early March, yet ironically the other two schools he's visiting in the upcoming weeks, Indiana and Illinois, ended up being later offers. On the surface, it would seem that it may be a challenge having this New Jersey product lured away from programs that are much closer to home. Nonetheless, you'll never have a chance at landing any recruit if you don’t at the very least have them on campus seeing what you have to offer.
We plan to have post-visit feedback from the visitors starting on Sunday.
