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  1. Tulsa's part of the Five Tribes Land.
  2. From OU's "Portal Weekend" 4 "locks" have been tweeted and 4 commits. More likely DB CJ Coldon (Wyoming): 2nd team MWC, FWIW DB Kani Walker (Louisville): Freshman in 2021; 1 tackle. ? recruited by Safeties coach Brandon Hall in high school DL Jeffery Johnson (Tulane) DB Trey Morrison (UNC): 4 yr starter at CB,S,NB at various points; tiny, 5-9; Venables may have known him some from the ACC (Clemson played UNC in 2019) OT Tyler Guyton (TCU): Freshman OT who can reverse dunk a basketball but may not be able to block other large humans QB Chubba Purdy (FSU): Didn't play at FSU, which had tremendous QB issues in 2020 and 2021. Brother made comically poor decisions in high leverage situations. Less likely TE Michael Trigg (USC): At Mississippi right now; mildly productive freshman yr; OU'll have playing time but he may follow Dart to Mississippi. LB Drew Sanders (Bama): Hogs DL Mekhi Wingo (Miz): Already said he's still going to visit SC; visited LSU too. OU still in it. QB Jaxson Dart (USC): At Mississippi right now; makes sense he'd go there Remaining needs WR: 3 (0 taken) OL: done? (2 taken) TE: 1 (1 taken) QB: 1 (1 taken) DL: done? (2 taken) DB: done? (3 taken) Updated: OU adds OL transfer from TCU Tyler Guyton. Athletic OT propect from 2020 class. Light for OT. Will either get stronger and be an OT or be a blocking TE type. OU's taken 8 portal guys (I'm not counting Ted Roof's son-LOL). Remaining needs include more guys to catch passes and probably throw passes. Two more "locks" were tweeted this weekend. Those two locks could be Guyton + Gentry Williams, who reaffirmed his OU commitment, or two new commitments from visitors this weekend or some combination. OU has 75 non-specialist scholarship players heading into 2022 as of right now. Anticipate 3-4 K/P/snappers, 2-4 Feb 2 signees, and that still leaves a couple of slots for Campbell-LOL, Conerly-also LOL, or more portal guys in Feb through May.
  3. Everybody knows he's gone from Norman so OU fans generally are indifferent. However, even current OU players acknowledge that an OU - SC game would be extra-extra spicy.
  4. I mentioned Wisconsin and ND here or on another site as being schools that had good team infrastructure + no competent returning QB + better culture fit for Caleb W. Going by Caleb/Riley delaying Caleb's announcement of his commitment to OU for recruiting purposes, I'd imagine this is all just a strategy to drum up suspense prior to an announcement that he's going to SC. Personally, I'd love to see him go to Wisconsin because it's less likely that current OU players with ties to Caleb will go to Madison than to LA. As an added benefit, if Dart doesn't go back to SC, it would be interesting to see what Riley can do with a truly replacement-level QB.
  5. Have people already been making the the "Wallet" Nolen joke?
  6. There's a stat floating around about this. Going back to the early 2010s, more than 50% of 4- and 5-star QBs transfer at least once. Coaches know this so the value of high school QB recruiting should be adjusted accordingly. Taking a QB from North Texas is good politics for this OU staff, and he may even turn out to be a good player! Build the infrastructure, and a top transfer QB will bail you out if you don't have a QB ready for the next year. OU experienced it this year even with Dillon Gabriel.
  7. I think Billy Napier is a leader on this front. He's figured out that, in addition to money, college football players also enjoy being around young women. The non-football staff employs a large contingent of young, attractive female staffers. Napier gets credit from these new hires for his "inclusion" and "forward thinking." 🙄
  8. I don't know the reference. Please explain.
  9. I think the difference between baseball, a mostly individual skill sport, and football, where individual success is usually tied to team success, is key here. An individuals success in football is usually impossible without contributions from other. Your batting average and fielding percentage are mostly reliant on your on skill. Plus baseball has competitive summer leagues for additional opportunities to display talent. Basketball may be more like baseball too. Harvard had the #80 class in 2020 and #50 class in 2021. Good players know that they can go there and should be able to dominate and get noticed. Plus they can go play in summer leagues and shine. As it turns out Harvard's coach, Tommy Amaker, is historically terrible and squanders massive talent advantages annually. But you see a template for success.
  10. OU ends up producing a quite a bit of D1 talent that ends up sprinkled throughout the B12 footprint. Most of it isn't "top 25 good" however, and it's spread really thin so there may be diminishing returns to hitting Oklahoma hard. OU coaches may have caught on. The Venables staff has said it is going to recruit Okla more and appears to be making a more concerted outreach to at least the big schools.
  11. Lord knows what OU's defense will look like in 2022. Too early for hand wringing for 2023 when OU's turning over a coaching staff and roster and will be changing NIL.
  12. The discussion was prompted by this guy. There was a crystal ball to Arkansas several days ago. Please see above post for details.
  13. I agree. That's why I said "I hope you're right" and that 2 of 3 stated issues were "TBD." And why I'm not understanding their strategy RE: portal WR. They only have 9 WR including 2 true Fr and 4 Fr/So. The 4 Fr/So all together caught 20 balls! If the OU coaches are planning on using Braden Willis as a WR, that would give them another experienced capable WR, but it steals from a thin TE room.
  14. I hope you're right. It seemed like he had several complaints, all rational: 1. Not enough NIL 2. Not enough playing time: it seems OU WR coach had a every other series substitution rule. Which is ridiculous if true. 3. Not enough targets, which definitely true (I think he got ~ 4 targets/game) Only one of these could definitely be solved right now (NIL). The others would be TBD. Lebby's system tends to get the ball to playmakers so there is that. Please correct me, because it could be my crimson-colored bias, but I think, based on production and displayed ability, he'd be the top portal WR if he entered. If this assumption is true, he could wait until May and go where he wants.
  15. For OU in 2022, Trigg may be more important than Dart so this is not good news for the Sooners. OU's lack of recruitment of WR is very puzzling. Mims could leave. Wease is coming off injury. That leaves Drake Stoops as your lone experienced WR. Of the Fr/So, Farooq has shown the most and is good friends with Caleb Williams so also has to be a portal risk. OU's been surprisingly quiet in their pursuit of portal WR. If the Sooner passing game is poor in 2022, the lack of WR experience would be a likely, predictable, unaddressed cause.
  16. I know that specific school very well and understand.
  17. @texifornia "Jesus, look at all that shit." I had literally 1 suitcase between 18-20 years old. His high school in DC (Gonzaga) is very fancy dancy and 25k/yr.
  18. And superspreader events! I was wondering if that was you!
  19. Big fan of fossil fuels, race riots, or both?
  20. Top Oklahoma kids generally go to OU or out-of-state UNLESS there are extenuating circumstances. Below is a list of 4-stars from Oklahoma over the last 5 years who didn't go to OU. During this time, 15 guys fit that criterion. OkSt's got 5. Out of those four, 2 had extenuating circumstances (*) and 2 were overrated as 4-stars (^), and 1 can't remember at all and he flamed out in 2 years. 2022 * OkSt (Pokes offered his brother when his brother is FCS level) UF, TxTech (overrated) 2021 * OkSt (wants to play DB but OU and A&M said LB only) Ark (wants to play RB but better at DB) ^ OkSt (best offer) 2020 Ark, Mizzou (overrated), Neb (overrated) 2019 Mich, Ark ^ OkSt (overrated; best offer) 2018 Ohio St, UTx (Casey Thompson ) OkSt (no recollection of the guy; he portaled to Wazzau in 2019)
  21. Lots of things against OU for this guy right now: - Wide angle: OU doesn't recruit Tulsa area well historically. New OU staff is supposedly making a concerted effort to get Okla kids to OU. - Medium angle: Pretty ideal for the HB role that OU's used well going back ~ 15 yrs but apparently Lebby isn't interested in that. - Macro: His mom is an Arkansas alum who has been strongly pushing the Hogs. OU has a poor history of recruiting Tulsa. A lot of this is TBD. Will OU really focus on Oklahoma recruiting more? Historically, of the top players OU's recruited (4-star or better) they've gotten ~ the same number from CA and OK. Hit rate for those recruits is ~ 40% from both states, surprisingly. In the short-term, I think Riley-SC and Lanning-Oregon are going to make it harder to pull top guys from CA so the focus on OK makes sense. What does OU's offense look like next year? Who knows! They have about the same number of experienced WR (3) as TE (2, one of whom is a transfer) so TE may get a disproportionate number of targets. Will a high school kid like his mom a year from now?
  22. The attached image is a post from Dec 30. OU - Caleb Williams have been done for more than 2 weeks. Everything else is for clicks. Also shown is the anticipated "outreach" to Gabriel. The rest of the post has my hand wringing about Mario Williams, Mike Woods, and the rest of the WR room. I also project the issues on the DL (where OU's since taken 2 portal guys and lost out on a 3rd) and the portaling out of yound DBs (McCutchin so far). Predictions that haven't panned out (yet) have been portal outs of OL and more DBs. I anticipate they'll happened in the next couple of weeks or so or post spring practice. Receipts.
  23. PFF leadership has been on podcasts and indicated they're aware of the variability of their college football player and unit rankings weakness. Good evaluation systems are a significant blindspot for college athletics. I few years ago, I approached the vox/SBNation people about an idea to address this, but they weren't interested. Certainly the major leagues (NFL, NBA, etc), rival sports teams, and fans would be interested in standardized player evaluations. As Had Enough said, standardized is the key word. There are/were technology solutions for some of this (think 2nd spectrum for football), but a lot would still be manual. mgoblog's FFF and UFR are examples of how laborious it is to actually do this, but there are economies of scale to be had.
  24. I clicked play and now google is going to think i like this.
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