Trent Spurgeon and Paul Vassallo Commit to Arizona

Two New Football Recruits

Trent Spurgeon, Offensive Lineman

Arizona picked up a HUGE commitment from 6'8 270 lbs offensive tackle Trent Spurgeon. According to GoAzCats.com Spurgeon, an Oklahoma product, is currently ranked as a four-star recruit and rated as the 22nd best OT prospect of the 2010 class. Trent selected Arizona over offers from Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, Kansas, Stanford, Missouri, and others. This marks the fifth offensive lineman taken in the 2010 class which includes: Mikey Bacus, Matthew Jakubiec, Chase Gorham, and Carter Lees. Congratulations to Stoops and Co. for continuing to build an impressive offensive line.

GoAzCats Trent Spurgeon Bio

GoAzCats Premium Article on Spurgeon

AZ Star Article on Trent Spurgeon

Wildcat Sports Report Article

Paul Vassallo, Linebacker

Yesterday 6,3 230 lbs linebacker Paul Vassallo out of Sierra Community College committed to the University of Arizona. Vassallo chose Arizona over Iowa State and the University of Washington making him the 9th 2010 commitment Mike Stoops has picked up.

GoAzCats Vassallo Bio

GoAzCats Premium Vassallo Article

Arizona Football Schedule Breakdown Part One

It's almost football season! Bryant and Josh provide an in-depth break down of the first half of the University of Arizona Football Schedule (Central Michigan, Northern Arizona, Iowa, Oregon State, and Washington) and guess the results in the first part of their second running contest.

Arizona Football Schedule Part One.mp3

NBA Re-Draft Podcast Part One

In part one of our podcast featuring the first UA Cat Wrap contest. Bryant, Josh, and Paul decide to tackle the NBA Draft by taking matters into their own hands and re-drafting the top twenty-one players and placing them on a fantasy team while providing commentary on the most wise and unwise picks of 2009. At the end of the year they will look back and see which rookie team preformed the best. The podcast team also covers Jordan Hill's role on the New York Knicks, Tyler Hansborough, and the future of the Phoenix Suns.

NBA Re-Draft Part One.mp3

NBA Re-Draft Podcast Part Two

Part Two of our podcast NBA Re-Draft Podcast

NBA Re-Draft Part Two.mp3

NBA Re-Draft Contest Results

The First Annual UA Cat Wrap NBA Re-Draft Results are in. Team Bryant, Team Josh, and Team Paul drafted their 7-player rookie fantasy teams and the results are below. You can hear our two part podcast on the NBA Draft on the podcasts above.

1. Blake Griffin - (Paul)

2. James Harden- (Josh)

3. Stephen Curry - (Bryant)

4. Jordan Hill - (Bryant)

5. Tyler Hansbrough - (Josh, yeah, we know)

6. Jonny Flynn - (Paul)

7. Hasheem Thabeet - (Paul)

8. Tyreke Evans - (Josh)

9. Gerald Henderson - (Bryant)

10. Earl Clark - (Bryant)

11. Jrue Holiday - (Josh)

12. Ty Lawson - (Paul)

13. Jeff Teague - (Paul)

14. DeJaun Blair - (Josh)

15. Terrance Williams - (Bryant)

16. Chase Budinger - (Bryant)

17. Eric Manor - (Josh)

18. Brandon Jennings - (Paul)

19. Darren Collison - (Paul)

20. James Johnson - (Josh)

21. John Brockman - (Bryant)

JJ Whittaker commits to the University of Arizona

Sorry about the lull folks, everyone at the Cat Wrap is gainfully employed and sometimes it takes a bit to arrange a new podcast. If you have not heard yet - Mike Stoops and Co. picked up another fast recruit as J.J. Whittaker committed to the University of Arizona. Whittaker runs a 4.4 forty which is very quick. Whittaker chose Arizona over: Texas A&M, Washington, Washington State, San Diego State, and New Mexico State. This makes him the seventh recruit and first corner back we have picked up.

You can check out Whittaker's profile on GoAZCats here

Here is the premium article

Here is the Wildcat Sports Report Article

The Arizona Daily Star does not have an article up about Whittaker because they are slow and probably only have 2 sports journalists left on payroll.

In other news, Arizona's Recruiting Class has been Ranked 12th by Scout.com beating out every other Pac-10 school except for UCLA.

You can find a good article by Bruce Pascoe on Arizona's younger players here.

Lance Stephenson, a very talented recruit who once tripped over his own ego after he decided to make a website about how awesome he was at basketball finally wrapped up his recruitment by committing to Cincinnati. Arizona had been recruiting him for a short period of time and then probably realized that O.J. Mayo 2.0 was probably a bad thing for our team.

We have some great material coming up including a podcast about the NBA Draft. Stay Tuned.

Below is a great Podcast featuring Neal Babcock that covers the unique Arizona Recruiting Class that you will enjoy. Read on.

Sean Miller, Arizona Basketball, and the Run and Gun

After Derrick Williams and Lamont Jones Committed to Arizona, Neal Babcock makes his podcast debut and talks with Bryant about Arizona's Recruiting Class including Lamont Jones and Derrick Williams as well as Arizona's reversion back to the run and gun style. Plus conversations on the worst Pac-10 coaching sytstem, Sean Miller’s focus on small forwards, and more.

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