As posted on the board yesterday, the La Mirada (Calif.) High long-snapper is set to join the Buffs' program as a preferred walk-on. He is hopeful that he will be part of the 105-man camp roster. New Mexico and some other lower conference programs were interested in him as well. "I just went out there for an unofficial visit and it is an incredible place, a place I'd want to be for four years. If I wasn't playing football, I'd want to go to school there," Bale said of CU. "I am big on fishing and outdoors activities and it is a great place for that." The 6-foot-3, 210-pound Bale also played tight end and linebacker in high school. He initially started long snapping when he was seven years old because his cousin was a long snapper for a Division-3 program and showed him how to do it. Bale started long snapping in Pop Warner but didn't take it too seriously until the last couple years when he started attending Chris Rubio camps. With Wyatt Tucker Smith, the Buffs' scholarship long snapper, entering his senior season, certainly Bale will have a chance to take over that role in 2016 if he shows he is capable. Bale has the right mentality for being a long snapper: "You go in knowing no one knows who you are and you don't want anyone to know who you are. You don't want to be the guy everybody is talking about because if they're talking about you, you probably screwed up. I am a behind-the-scenes guy and I like that. That is kind of how I was at tight end, more of a blocking guy." I'll have a front page story up tomorrow morning.
