A year ago, Arizona’s overhauled coaching staff scrambled to fill out a recruiting class on short notice.
The Wildcats were coming off a rash of decommitments from the month prior and only had 15 players committed. By signing day, the Wildcats’ class grew to 20.
Chacho Ulloa was a former Stanford commit, Jalen Cochran was thought to be leaning toward Michigan State, Josh Allen had already decommitted from Arizona once, Lorenzo Burns was choosing between Arizona and Cal. Shawn Poindexter wasn’t even on Arizona’s radar.
All five picked the Wildcats in the end.
This year feels a little less dramatic.
The Wildcats have 25 players committed to the 2017 class heading into Wednesday’s signing day festivities, with five of them already enrolled at the school. UA coaches are still in pursuit of a few new players, and trying to fend off other schools for a couple commits.
“I think they’re going to have a top-20 class and they went 3-9,” Pac-12 Networks analyst Yogi Roth said. “That’s impressive.”
Here are some questions Arizona must answer before Wednesday:
