Saguaro star running back D.J. Foster, possibly the most targeted football recruit in Arizona, will wait to see who Arizona State hires as Dennis Erickson's successor before choosing a college, he said Tuesday.

On Jan. 22, Priest Willis slipped on a pair of powder blue football gloves, aligned his hands in the sign of a ‘U’ and confirmed to the college football world what everyone long suspected: He was verbally committing to UCLA.

Sometime during a sleep-inducing first half last December at Arizona Stadium, Wildcats media relations director Tom Duddleston grabbed the press box mic and broke the monotony by sarcastically suggesting that Arizona and Arizona State had just broken an NCAA record for most pathetic punts (14) in a half.

It's going to be an interesting spring for Brock Osweiler.

Six junior college players are among the 27 signees in coach Dennis Erickson's fourth recruiting class at Arizona State, a list heavy with beefy linemen.