The Hotline mailbag publishes weekly. Send questions to pac12hotline@bayareanewsgroup.com and include ‘mailbag’ in the subject line. Or hit me on Twitter/X: @WilnerHotline. Please note: Some questions have been edited for clarity and brevity….
The Hotline is delighted to provide Pac-12 fans with a regular dive into the recruiting process through the eyes and ears of Brandon Huffman, the Seattle-based national recruiting editor for…
With the 31st overall pick in the 2024 draft, the San Francisco 49ers drafted Ricky Pearsall. Pearsall played at Corona del Sol and graduated in 2019. In two years on…
It has been almost three years since Arizona State acknowledged an NCAA investigation into possible recruiting violations, 18 months since the school revealed a multi-million-dollar buyout of former coach Herm…
Bill Polian calls it the “draft industrial complex” — the tendency for the NFL media machinery to generate unrealistic expectations for quarterbacks projected as first-round selections. “They can’t live up…
If everything breaks right for the conference where so much has gone wrong, the Pac-12 will make history before it becomes history. The 2024 NFL Draft could be the most…
Arizona State football had an impressive weekend on the recruiting trail, and they added one of the top players in their home state in the process. Mountain Pointe defensive back…
The penultimate year in the Pac-12 was not a profitable one for the Four Corners schools. Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah combined to book a $34.1 million operating shortfall…
In recruiting, a commitment is supposed to go both ways between a player and a program. The sad reality is…that doesn’t always happen. But for Arizona State safety commit Xavier…
It’s been an incredibly busy 48 hours for the Arizona State Sun Devil football program. The NCAA announced infractions on the four former staffers and the program as a whole….
