The four most compelling Tucson recruiting stories of the week:
1. Nick Quintana, baseball. In June 2013, two days before Jay Johnson became the baseball coach at Nevada, the West Coast’s most dogged baseball recruiter played host to a 15-year-old shortstop from Las Vegas.
Johnson, then chief of the San Diego Toreros recruiting operation, hoped that Quintana would follow another Las Vegas infielder, Kris Bryant, who played at USD and became college baseball’s 2013 player of the year.
Then things shuffled. Within a week, Johnson moved to Nevada. Quintana, a shortstop from Arbor View High School, has gone on to be ranked as high as the No.