Wildcat Wrap: Arizona continues shuffling football operations staff

It’s Monday which means it’s time to recap another week of all things Arizona Wildcats. Let us know in the comment section if we missed anything.

Softball

• Taylor McQuillin was featured in Sports Illustrated, Chelsea Goodacre is tearing up the NPF, and Oregon is quickly reloading its roster with transfers. Here’s more on all that.
• Taryne Mowatt highlights the latest group of Wildcats to be inducted into the Arizona Hall of Fame.

Baseball

• Arizona added two high school recruits and a transfer last week, one of whom was committed to national champion Vanderbilt.
• Here’s a story on former UA outfielder Cal Stevenson, who is finding a knack for getting on base in the minor leagues.
• Rising sophomore Randy Abshier will be starting in the Alaska League All-Star Game. He has a 1.68 ERA in six starts. Lefties George Arias and Blake Peyton also made the All-Star team. Arizona desperately needs to improve on the mound in 2020, so perhaps this is a sign of things to come.
• Fellow rising sophomore Austin Wells was named a starter in the Cape Cod League All-Star Game. He is hitting .311 with with six homers and 21 RBI.
• Lefty Gil Luna had a good week:

1⃣2⃣ innings. 2⃣1⃣ strikeouts. 0⃣ earned runs. @LunaJr_ is on one, and it earned him Summer Player of the Week honors!#MLBTrainingGround | #BearDown pic.twitter.com/f685fWDyfX

— Arizona Baseball (@ArizonaBaseball) July 12, 2019

Soccer

• Here’s a story on star outside back Morgan McGarry, Arizona’s first fifth-year senior since 2010.
• I took a look at the state of Arizona soccer under head coach Tony Amato.

Volleyball

• Brian took a look at the state of Arizona volleyball, which is trying to return to the top tier of the Pac-12.

Cross country

• Brian checked in to see how the program is doing under coach James Li.

Men’s basketball

• Arizona target Puff Johnson is reportedly not reclassifying to 2019.
• NC State was notified of Level I allegations, the latest school to feel the wrath of the NCAA.
• Jason Terry reportedly plans to pursue pro and college coaching opportunities.
• Arizona will open the Wooden Legacy against Lorenzo Romar and Pepperdine.
• Is anyone going to sign Jerryd Bayless? The 30-year old is still a free agent.
• Marcus Bagley, the younger brother of Marvin Bagley III, has Arizona in Top 3
• Derrick Williams is leaving Bayern Munchen to sign with Turkish powerhouse Fenerbahce.
• Superfan Georgia Kalil died at the age of 81.

Football

• Gabe and Brandon broke down new UA commit Dyelan Miller, a 3-star wide receiver from the Phoenix area.
• Adam made a case for why you should not sleep on Khalil Tate this season.
• Ronnie previewed what to expect from Texas Tech under new head coach Matt Wells.
• Scott broke down Arizona’s special teams, which have to find a new punter among other things.
• Former UA cornerback Sammy Morrison is heading to San Diego State.
• Khalil Tate and J.J. Taylor made Sports Illustrated’s Top 100. Colin Schooler did not. ASU only had one player on the list. USC and UCLA had none.
• Ka’Deem Carey is thriving in the CFL.
• Arizona made more changes to its football operation staff, announcing the hire of Cass Petty as the new assistant director of football operations.
• In related news, Arizona parted ways with director of recruiting operations Chris Singletary. who accepted a position at Gilbert High School. Arizona replaced Singletary with former Georgia Tech staffer Cody Moore.
• Singletary is just the latest recruiting staffer to leave Arizona since last season. Andy Vaughn, the former senior director of recruiting and high school relations, left for a player personnel role at Miami. Meanwhile, former director of on-campus recruiting Christina DeRuyter left for the same position at Texas Tech. The reason for the changes is not clear. Singletary was a holdover from Rich Rodriguez’s staff, but the other two were brought in by Sumlin after he was hired in January of 2018, so it’s not necessarily a case of Sumlin clearing the deck so he can bring in his own people. Arizona’s 2019 recruiting class ranked 10th in the Pac-12, so perhaps Sumlin felt a change was necessary in order to start attracting more high-level recruits to Tucson. Or maybe those aforementioned staffs left on their on volition.

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