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Blue Chips Transfer Tracker

Welcome to the Blue Chips Forum Transfer Tracker!

The transfer portal may have closed for entry for basketball players last week, yet there’s still plenty of talented Arizona high school basketball alumni looking for homes.

This thread is for everyone to be able to keep track of former Arizona high school basketball players that are on the move from place to place.

If you’re new here, introduce yourself below and we look forward to seeing you chime in!

Blue Chips Alumni News Thread

Welcome to the Blue Chips Alumni News Thread on ArizonaVarsity.com! This is the place for updates, cool stories and overall news about Arizona high school basketball alums. I'm excited to be leading the charge in this forum and I'm excited to share some awesome stories I have coming down the pipeline. However, I also need YOUR help.

If you know of any news regarding alumni, both good and (hopefully not) bad, feel free to drop it below and we'll all discuss! This is an exciting time for Arizona Varsity and this is just one of the many new items we are implementing to bring exciting and fresh content to the Arizona high school basketball community!

Myself, Adam Beadle, Ralph Amsden, Zach Alvira and Jacob Seliga will all be contributing on the website for all different things.

I will obviously focus and stay with Hoops but you may see the other 4 (especially Jacob Seliga) chime in on stuff here.

Seliga and I will be the main guys to chat with on all things dealing with basketball in the state of Arizona !

New here? Introduce yourself below!

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Welcome to the Blue Chips Forum

Hello! And welcome to the Blue Chips forum here on Arizona Varsity!

This forum will be the go-to source for all things high school basketball related in the state of Arizona from prospect and team evaluations to schedule breakdowns and more.

It’s a first of its kind forum dedicated to providing you as a subscriber a detailed and comprehensive guide to the state of basketball from high school to the pros.

We’ll examine both college basketball news involving Arizona State and high school alumni as well as the NBA with the Phoenix Suns.

This forum will be moderated by Gregg Rosenberg and myself and while you’re in here, the biggest and only rule we do ask that you follow is to treat everyone whether it be staff or your fellow subscribers with respect.

We do know that there’s passionate and genuine interest and support for the players, coaches, and teams we’ll be reporting on and discussing but in order for that to happen, respect for everyone must be given.
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2025 Arizona High School Football News Discussion Thread

There are a lot of interesting tidbits in this week's Zone Read from our friends Eric Sorenson and Cody Cameron over at Sports360AZ

Namely this one:

Sam Keller coaching QBs at Pinnacle, replacing Trace Carroll (now at Chaparral)- Keller is no stranger to helping out in the AZHSFB scene, but Pinnacle's QB history is as rich as anyone's, and stepping in for Wyatt Horton won't be easy. Should be interesting!

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TeamAZV Embrace Debate Forum

I have a feeling this thread may be the most fun, and heated, of them all here on ArizonaVarsity.com. It's exactly what it sounds like: A place where arguments and debating over various topics is safe. My nickname for this thread will be the Zach and Jacob Seliga Thunder Dome, as I imagine him and I getting into quite a few quarrels on this here thread.

BUT, it's all in good fun and for the good of the community, as it introduces a message board that is safe from (most) trolls that Twitter is inhabited with. So, sit back, relax and let the debating begin.

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Team AZV Football Transfer Tracker

Welcome to the NEW Team AZV Football Transfer Tracker! With the transfer portal busier than ever and many players on the move on what seems like a daily basis, this is the thread for all of us to collaborate and keep track of former Arizona high school football players that are on the move. I look forward to some great conversations and collaboration between members of Team AZV and, most importantly, our subscribers!

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Team AZV Alumni News Thread

Welcome to the Team AZV Alumni News Thread on ArizonaVarsity.com! This is the place for updates, cool stories and overall news about Arizona high school football alums. I'm excited to be leading the charge in this forum and I'm excited to share some awesome stories I have coming down the pipeline. However, I also need YOUR help.

If you know of any news regarding alumni, both good and (hopefully not) bad, feel free to drop it below and we'll all discuss! This is an exciting time for Arizona Varsity and this is just one of the many new items we are implementing to bring exciting and fresh content to the Arizona high school football community!

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4/29 AZHSFB Recruiting Summary

We're 14 days into the spring contact period, and almost every Division I school is wrapping up its spring camp, meaning lots of offers will be reported from players over the next several weeks as spring ball begins here in Arizona. Many college coaches will be visiting the Valley over the next month, and today seemed like the jumpstart of a big spring recruiting cycle in AZ.

Summary:
- '26 DB Cannon Garday (Liberty) reported an offer from Fordham
- '26 ATH Corey Webb Jr. (Tonopah Valley) reported an offer from Eastern Washington. (NOTE: Webb received his first D1 offer yesterday from Idaho—I missed that yesterday on my Twitter/X.)
- '26 OL Malachi Joyner (Williams Field), '26 LB Bastian Vanden-Bosch (Brophy), '27 DB Nas Eason (Higley), '27 OL Chase Grohman (ALA-GN) and '26 ATH Kydel Stone (Saguaro) all reported an offer from New Mexico. It looks like New Mexico has a couple of coaches who are actively recruiting Arizona talent.
- '27 ATH Dontay Tyson (Peoria) reported another Big 10 offer from Minnesota.
- '26 LB Beau Jandreau (Hamilton) reported an SEC offer from Tennessee.

How will the Narbonne scandal affect Arizona High School Football?

Last year in California, Narbonne won the Open Division Championship... but they did it with four forfeit victories on their schedule.

From FootballScoop:

"Among those concerns were 20 new transfers that arrived at Narbonne following a 4-6 season two years ago, along with financial incentives in the "tens of thousands of dollars" and various housing arrangements that were being provided by the school or football program for those transfers as well as others on the roster.

Refusing to play a fellow school not abiding by the rules, the coaches at Banning HS (Raymond Grajeda), Carson HS (Michael Christensen), Monty Gilbreath (Gardena) and Corey Walsh (San Pedro) encouraged decisive action to be taken, providing three examples; 1) Narbonne be suspended from the league, 2) the conference allow the four schools to break off and form a new league or 3) the four schools join a different league altogether where fairness and integrity are an actual priority and not just lip service."

The boycott didn't work right away, but in a subsequent investigation after Narbonne won the 2024 title, the CIF found that Narbonne

"did not provide accurate information during the investigation and broke undue influence and pre-enrollment contact bylaws leading up to the 2024 football season."

The penalties?

1) vacating wins
2) banned from the 2025, 2026 and 2027 CIF LA City Section football playoffs, with the ability to appeal after the 2025-26 school year.
3) Four Years Probation

It's good to see that the CIF has teeth, but how could this affect Arizona High School football?

Despite what people think, recruiting is nowhere near as rampant in Arizona as it is in California, where the private schools regularly hand parents a list of players to go out and try to recruit on the coaching staff's behalf so they have a degree of separation. It's not uncommon for rent for a year, relocation costs, and grocery money to change hands as an enticement to get kids to the best schools.

In Arizona, recruiting is a lot less sexy- it usually encompasses hunting for a QB at the middle school level and using the promise of attendance to build a roster, or developing/co=opting feeder programs and hiring the youth coaches to be on the freshman staff- but recently I've been getting some calls about some direct recruiting... reaching out to players via their DMs and letting them know that they might have a home/better fit elsewhere. Definitely very risky to leave a trail.

You do have to wonder if the CIF flexing its muscles in this way will make any coaches in AZ that are skirting the rules think twice.

Thoughts?
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