USU Recruiting Updates

Calendar October 21, 2009 | Posted by AggieNoise

Gary Andersen follows up two aggravating losses with the kind of news that reminds us all why it is a great time to be an Aggie fan. Two impressive high school football recruits have verbally committed to Utah State University and Gary Andersen.

Jordan High School QB Alex Hart was offered by Coach Andersen on Monday and accepted the same day. Here’s what he had to say:

“I got offered today around like 2:30 (p.m.) and I called them around 7 o’clock tonight and told them,” said Hart, a senior who has helped guide the Beetdiggers to a 5-4 mark this season. “… That was my first choice from the start.”

 Hart set a school record last weekend by throwing 8 touchdown passes in a single game. Even more impressive, he did that in the first half and sat out the rest of the game. Hart also leads the nation in passing yards with 3,399 yards on the season so far. You can read more about him in this Herald Journal article.

Jason Fanaika, an athletic tight end and defensive end, is the other verbal Andersen received this week. At 6-4 and 240 lbs Fanaika is a big boy. He has been impressive on both the offensive side of the ball (5 touchdown catches) and the defensive side (4 sacks). Currently the Aggies need to improve both positions and it hasn’t been said which he will play at the next level.

In basketball news, USU has a stranger on their roster. Let me introduce walk-on point guard E.J. Farris. Farris joins USU after a strong performance as a freshman at College of the Sequoias in California. There has been little press about his joining our team but I think it is important that we give him, as well as the other newcomers, a warm welcome to the Spectrum during the opening scrimmage against Northwest Nazarine on October 30th.

Aggie Noise:

Cache Valley Daily: USU finishes first in both WAC men’s basketball preseason picks Also, take a look at these pictures from the Nevada football game

Deseret News: Utah St. football: Gets commitment from Pleasant Grove tight end and Utah St. basketball: Aggies again in top poll position

Aggieville: I really enjoy the updates from Tony Jones

Herald Journal: Jordan QB Hart commits to Ags and Ag men picked to repeat as WAC champions also Aggies get one more commit

The Refraction Blog: Our Preseason WAC All-Conference Picks

Parsing The WAC: The play of Tai Wesley examined

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