The Hotline is delighted to provide West Coast fans with a regular dive into the recruiting process through the eyes and ears of Brandon Huffman, the Phoenix-based national recruiting editor for 247Sports. He submitted the following report on Oct. 24 …

Senior year evaluations

Lost amid the ever-evolving NCAA recruiting calendar: the senior year.

Remember that?

With so many schools locking up their signing class by the end of July, the haste to finish has undermined the importance of senior seasons for emerging recruits.

While 2020 was a weird year because of COVID, there was a little-known quarterback in Utah who only had scholarship offers from BYU, Yale, Pennsylvania, Fordham and Louisiana.

But a superb senior season allowed Jaxson Dart to sign with USC (before he would transfer to

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