West Coast recruiting roundup: Hot starts for Stanford, Cal and Boise State

The Hotline is delighted to provide West Coast fans with a regular dive into the recruiting process through the eyes and ears of Brandon Huffman the Seattle-based national recruiting editor for Sports He submitted the following summary on June And Here We Go Following the first post-Memorial Day weekend for official visits commitments flew in It will only get busier in the coming weeks For all of the gnashing of teeth about the impact of realignment what if we declared the Bay Area schools had the majority positivity Let s dive in Here come the Cardinal The Andrew Luck effect is in well full effect Stanford s finest member of the st century-turned-general manager has been as hands-on as any GM in college football since his hiring late last year So naturally the Cardinal made the largest part of the first official visit weekend by securing five commitments including a flip of a longtime Baylor pledge Ryelan Morris a four-star receiver out of the Lone Star state Stanford also landed a commitment from Arizona receiver Daylen Sharper whose father Darren played in the NFL New Jersey safety Zaiden McDonald California cornerback Jason Hill Jr who spurned his father s alma mater Washington State and Texas cornerback Jack Duckworth Bears back in business The transfer portal crushed Cal this spring But high school recruiting has been another story This might have been the greatest week of Justin Wilcox s tenure in Berkeley in fact and that includes when he landed quarterback Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele last summer It started on Saturday with offensive lineman Elisha Faamatuainu from Southern California committing to the Bears It continued on Sunday when De La Salle High School standout Nemyah Telona stated he was staying in the East Bay and playing for Cal He spurned an offer from Oregon defensive coordinator Tosh Lupoi Then Southern California running back Victor Santino disclosed he too was staying in-state The week crescendoed on Tuesday when the top-rated prospect from the Bay Area San Francisco offensive lineman Tommy Tofi also spurned Oregon along with Tennessee and chose to play for the Bears His brother John signed with Cal in December but the younger Tofi was a more coveted prospect He s a Top recruit nationally in the class and a huge win for Wilcox But the Bears didn t stop there They went back to Hawaii Sagapolutele s home terrain to land the No recruit in the state tight end Taimane Purcell who picked Cal over USC and North Carolina Huge week for Broncos Boise State had a big weekend of visitors And a bigger week of commitments Four new pledges from four different states chose the Broncos Nevada offensive lineman Kole Cronin was the highest rated as the Reno prospect chose Boise State over Arizona Cal Nevada and Oregon State Then California receiver Jacob Arbuckle picked the Broncos over several future Pac- schools Arizona edge Corey Webb did the same choosing Boise State from his double digit offers And for good measure Washington offensive lineman Hakeim Smalls did the same Related Articles Mailbag Comparing the new Pac- to the Big and ACC the UNLV and Texas State scenarios media deal timeline and loads more College Football Playoff conflict Pac- commissioner Teresa Gould on format options the path forward and outdated metrics College Football Playoff conflict Why Big commissioner supports model that may harm his conference s chances College Football Playoff conflict Time for Big Ten commissioner Petitti to explain his radical proposal UConn leads our revised MBB Top after NBA Draft deadline Send suggestions comments and tips confidentiality guaranteed to wilnerhotline bayareanewsgroup com or call - - Follow Huffman on the social media platform X via BrandonHuffman and backing AveryStrongDIPG Follow Wilner on the social media platform X WilnerHotline