Arizona Marvelous Ideas: Sonoran Hot Reads: Arizona baseball gets to work on 2019 class

Getting those youngsters committed early

If you can schedule football games for the year 2031, I suppose there's no reason you can't start putting together your 2019 recruiting class. That's exactly what Jay Johnson has done for Arizona baseball, as they landed their first commitment of 2019 on Sunday:

#Arizona brings their first 2019 on board with SS/RHP Jacob Shaver. Up to 84 this fall, good athlete. #50 per @PerfectGameUSA. #BearDown
— Jheremy Brown (@JBrownPG) January 25, 2016

Baseball seems almost impossible to project, but now we're looking at middle schoolers throwing 84 MPH. And according to Arizona baseball super fan and guy who keeps me on my toes Charles Archuleta, there's one for 2020 locked up too:

@azdesertswarm @JBrownPG @PerfectGameUSA we have one for 2020 too
— Charles Archuleta (@baseballkrazy) January 25, 2016

Basketball

- There are eight teams within one game of first place in the Pac-12

#Pac12Hoops standings are a mess now. After Utah takes down Washington, #Stanford mired in a 6-way tie for 3rd. http://pic.twitter.com/lSDKyFRsqz
— Rule of Tree (@RuleofTree) January 25, 2016

- Ryan gave you three things that we learned from Saturday night's last-second loss to Cal

Football

- The football staff landed the first commitment under the new defensive leadership in safety Tristan Cooper. We will have more on his decision later on Monday

- One Arizona target who will not be committing anytime soon is Emmanuel Beal, who decided on Oklahoma

- Chacho Ulloa seems to be down to Arizona and Oregon, and after visiting Tucson this weekend, told Scout's Greg Biggins "Overall, it was a good visit and I can definitely see myself there, UA is on top for me right now."

- Ulloa may become one of a huge number of guys to commit or sign with Arizona in the next week and a half