The Football Brainiacs

Image of Justin Reid via 247 Sports

– Will Lockett: We caught up with OU cornerback offer and visitor, Will Lockett, last night. Lockett is a UCLA commit, but received an Oklahoma offer last month and visited for the Kansas game. He committed to UCLA back in the summer, but had not yet taken his official visit until about a week and a half ago for the USC game. There was some speculation that Lockett may want to stay closer to home and if he had perhaps visited for a different game (you’ll recall the Kansas game was rainy and relatively empty), the Sooners may have had a better chance.

But in talking to him it’s clear the UCLA trip went really well. He said, “the atmosphere was amazing!” Again, normally OU’s atmosphere would easily match and exceed what he saw in Cali, but he just so happened to come on a rainy weekend when the Sooners were playing…Kansas. Lockett didn’t hesitate to tell us that he is “solid” to UCLA and it doesn’t sound like there is much of a chance that’s going to change.

We’ll continue to watch the situation, but we think it’s pretty safe to go ahead and move on from this one.

– Justin Reid: We also had a chance to catch up with 2015 S Justin Reid. Most of you will recall Justin made his trip to Norman for the Tennessee game and loved what he saw. In fact, he considered committing at the time but his parents preferred he take his remaining official visits. There were two offers that we were watching for we felt could pose a serious, if not fatal, threat to OU’s chances. One was LSU which would have been fatal, but that didn’t happen. The other was Stanford. Reid is an exceptional student and visited Stanford over the summer where he was intrigued by the program, the academics, and the fact that the school would put him near his brother, Eric, who plays for the 49ers.

Reid has plans to take an official visit to Stanford on January 17th. He’s also planning take an official to Mississippi State the following weekend. He told us he will take one final visit after the Mississippi State visit, but he hasn’t decided on the destination just yet. However, he did make it clear that right now, “it’s between OU and Stanford.” And we expect it to remain that way until the end. Reid said he will make his decision in late January after his final visit.

He also let us know that OU will do their in-home visit with him next week. Again, Reid has told us that it’s currently between OU and Stanford. And we really believe that if OU can hold off Stanford, they’ll be the team that lands Reid in the end.

– PJ Mbanasor: Received a message from Mbanasor that Arkansas came by Hendrickson high school yesterday. Coach Clay Jennings was in town to visit the OU commit and also did an in-home visit with Mbanasor. You’ll recall that Mbanasor has a long standing relationship with Jennings from back when PJ was committed to TCU, as Jennings left TCU a little less than a year ago to take the job at Arkansas. The Razorbacks are making a strong push for Mbanasor. But to be honest, we really don’t feel they’re a huge threat at this point. Mbanasor has never even taken a visit to Arkansas so unless that changes, we don’t feel there is anything to worry about.

– Will Sunderland: As you may have seen in today’s daily links post, Bob Stoops continued his recruiting tour last night with an in-home visit with OU’s lone 2015 safety commit to date, Will Sunderland.