The Salt Lake Tribune
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Football: Utah preps plan college visits with no games on Friday
Some odds and ends from the recruiting Web sites the past few days:

* Highland High's Latu Heimuli (6-4, 300) will visit Washington State this weekend. The defensive tackle will have plenty of time for the visit because his high school team played on Wednesday night.

Yes, it is UEA weekend in Utah, which means school is out Thursday and Friday (and Monday, for some). That means high school football is played on Wednesdays -- probably the only state in the union that has a full slate of varsity football on Wednesday at least once every year.

Highland played at West on Wednesday night.

As has been noted in this space previously, Heimuli will visit Arizona next weekend (Oct. 25). Having visited Nebraska last week, he told Rivals.com that he will probably choose between Oregon State, Cal and UCLA for his last two visits.

* Speaking of Washington State, the beleaguered program will welcome another Utahn this week: Cottonwood running back Isi Sofele. The 5-8, 165-pound Sofele has offers from Arizona, Oregon State, Washington, UNLV, Utah, SMU and UConn in addition to WSU, which will be his first official visit.

The Cougars play host to USC this weekend, so if nothing else, Heimuli and Sofele will probably find that the Cougars need a lot of instant help.

Sofele said he will visit Hawaii on Dec. 2 with his cousin, Cottonwood safety Asi Hosea. The two have said they would like to attend the same school, if possible.

Hosea is also visiting Washington State this weekend, but it will be an unofficial visit and he will pay his own way.

Hosea told Rivals.com that he will take an official visit to Kansas State on Oct. 25. He has already taken an unofficial visit to SMU, and plans on taking an official visit to the Dallas-area school when the high school season is over.

Hosea said he has offers from Hawaii, Washington, Oregon State and Utah, in addition to the schools he is visiting.

Cottonwood played at Granger on Wednesday night.

-- Jay Drew

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