{"id":129495,"date":"2026-01-11T20:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T20:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/129495\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T20:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T20:51:09","slug":"san-jose-state-transfer-ol-nate-hale-committed-to-arizona-and-broke-down-his-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/129495\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose State transfer OL Nate Hale committed to Arizona and broke down his decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After taking official visits to UCLA and Arizona over the last week, San Jose State offensive line transfer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/nate-hale-162198\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nate Hale;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Nate Hale<\/a> is headed to Tuscon to play for the Wildcats.<\/p>\n<p>Hale said his familiarity with the Wildcat staff, who initially recruited him to San Jose State played a big role.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUCLA was great and they\u2019re definitely building something there but I committed to Arizona on my trip,\u201d Hale said. \u201cA lot of the staff there is the same staff that was at San Jose State my freshman year and it was great to see so many familiar faces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love coach B (Brent Brennan), he was one of the first coaches to offer me out of high school. I love his energy, authenticity and his belief in me and I can\u2019t wait to play for him and go block for Noah (Fifita).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UA OL coach Josh Oglesby played a big tole in his decision as well.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always impossible to say no to coach O,\u201d Hale said. \u201cI\u2019m so excited to play for him again and I ahve a great connection with their OC Seth Doege as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a tough decision but me and my family talked and prayed about it and we felt that Arizona was the best all around fit for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hale is a player we saw a lot of out of high school where he prepped for state power\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/high-school\/orange-lutheran-orange-ca-11659\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Orange Lutheran;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Orange Lutheran<\/a>\u00a0(Calif.). He signed with the Spartans as part of the class of 2023 and started 10 games as a right tackle this past season.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to stay at tackle at Arizona as well,\u201d Hale said. \u201cThey said they want me to come in to compete and contribute immediately.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was my first time in Tucson and I loved the campus and awesome facilities. I know I can develop on and off the field so I\u2019m really excited about my decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hale will have two years of eligibility left and has the game experience and all around skill set to be a potential plug and play tackle and compete for a starting spot right away. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After taking official visits to UCLA and Arizona over the last week, San Jose State offensive line transfer\u00a0Nate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1956,24278,66658,66657,88,90,89,996],"class_list":{"0":"post-129495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-brent-brennan","10":"tag-hale","11":"tag-nate-hale","12":"tag-san-jose","13":"tag-san-jose-headlines","14":"tag-san-jose-news","15":"tag-san-jose-state"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}