2016 JUCO LB Emmanuel Beal Commits To Oklahoma
Posted on: January 24, 2016
Sooners have just picked up a commitment from JUCO linebacker, Emmanuel Beal out of Lackawanna CC. This is the second linebacker commit in this class out of Lackawanna CC, the other being Kapri Doucet.
Blessed to say I'm 100% Committed to the University of Oklahoma🙏🏽🔋🏈🔥🔥!!!! pic.twitter.com/hA9wU62DJO
— 📟 (@EBeal43) January 24, 2016
122 Comments
Take it away, Denzel.
Happy for this young man but after Velus Jones I’m not getting comfortable with commitments until NSD. I know sometimes it’s an OU thing but yeah. Still good pickup!
Sent this to you guys on Twitter but just curious if we would consider going after Andrew Ford the QB from Lackawanna. With the Cody Thomas news, we could certainly use a backup with some college experience. Any thoughts? I took a look and coincidentally he’s the highest rated JUCO QB still unsigned. With all of our other guys from there, it could be a perfect match.
I think they’re just going to count on Thomas coming back in the fall.
I’m confused. I thought he left the team. So that’s not true? He’s still with the team. Still on a football scholarship but just taking the spring to play baseball?
He left the team but the news was that he might come back after the spring. He took a chance on football full time, it hasn’t paid off now it looks like he wants to give baseball a chance full time to see if he can progress. From what I saw of his stats in baseball, they weren’t very good.
Hey Zack, obviously the coaches held a spot for Kelly. What do you think about Mark Jackson? Is there still a spot for him?
I think so. But we will see how this all plays out. They gotta be careful trying to load up on linebackers.
I thought Kish couldn’t recruit LBs, so how are we loading up on LBs? /s
Mike
Where’s Denzel?!
Actors union rules says no work before noon in Sundays
He is still recovering from yesterday’s de-boom of Jones. Takes a lot out of a guy to suck one of those booms back in.
Anyone able to edit the Denzel Boom gif to run backwards and caption it with “MOOB.”?
😛
Nice pick up. Need depth for sure. BOOM!
I hope it’s a nice pickup. Will definitely half to trust Kish on this one.
Well we trusted folks on several two and three stars- many of whom won us games and played in the NFL. So yes, we will have to trust the staff on this one- like EVERY one.
Yeah, Stoops is making a pretty good salary to make decisions, and he knows a lot more than any fan will know about players
BOOM!!! Another one
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OK, so we have 3 OLBs committed and are holding a spot for Kelly. Does that mean Blue is out? I gotta believe that we were only going to take one of Beal/Blue.
I said earlier that I don’t think blue was going to flip. I guess they weren’t concerned about taking beal as I thought they would make him wait to try to commit.
I’d be lying if I said I understood this offer. Still, welcome to Sooner Land Mr. Beal!! Prove us all wrong
OU is bringing in heavy hitters. OU will be known as Concussion U.
Good way to start a quiet Sunday morn! BOOM!!! Welcome to Sooner Nation, Emmanuel!! Even after the ups and downs since Thursday, this young man chooses OU and deserves some excitement from the fans!!
“Never a bad thing to have a surplus of guys who can play in space, rush the passer and hit” – JY Brainiac tweet
And a high character one at that
Plus experience at the collegiate level, in which will prolly be more of a immediate impact vs a high school player.
And a BOOM! Welcome young man, we expect nothing but your best.
No you take Kelly and Jackson, no matter what. You want Jackson to go to Texass?
Absolutely.
I agree 100% in taking Jackson, but we don’t have many scholarship offers left. We need to be careful loading up LBs when there are other needs. I mean 5-6 LBs in one class is a lot
Our base defence is the 3-4.. We should bring in a 4-5 lbs every year, especially when your replacing 3 of em.
There ya go.
No I get that, its just were getting really low on our available spots. Wish we were replacing them with 4 year players instead of JUCO, but at least they have some experience and can make an early impact.
How many do we have left?
Bob Stoops @OU_CoachStoops 1m1 minute ago
The #614 has that #OUDNA! #Sooners16
A little bit of a head a scratcher but I guess we’ll take it. Welcome, Beal!
Just needs to be beefed up, then coached up. He has the potential to contribute this Fall and the maturity to commit and to learn fast. This is his best shot at the NFL.
A little bit of a head a scratcher but I guess we’ll take it. Welcome, Beal!
like this kid ,, he seems to have a unusual hand/eye skill for punching the ball out of a runners grip on the fly ,,
Hopefully Stoops had some in-depth evaluation on Beal cause his CC stats are mediocre at the very best. Too late now I guess … Boom
What were the stats?
you can find them on the school website …. a remember seeing limited tackles and around 5ish TFL (and thats in two years if I remember correctly).
9.5 TFL for beal. 17.5 for doucet this last year.
Stats actually were pretty solid. 31 tackles this yr with 4 sacks:
Tck TFL Sck PBU FF FR
31 9.5 4 3 2 1 (2015)
17 1 1 – – 1 (2014)
48 10.5 5 3 2 2 (TOTAL)
sooo, we basically pushed out a 3 star lb in jefferson for a 2 star lb in beal…i really dont get the move.
Is it because beal is a juco and thus wont be on scholly as long as basically a depth player?
As i understand it, something happened on Jefferson’s visit that made us yank the offer.
Yes.
What?
Just rumors Sam character
Okay. We don’t need that s#%!!.
Exactly
interesting, hadnt heard that. Thought he was simply a victim of the numbers game.
I hope that you are aware that just because someone has more “stars” doesn’t mean that they are better player.
Stars are not the end all be all, but a 2 star JUCO with a basically a blank offer sheet dosent have the makings of a diamond in the rough IMO.
Plus JUCO’s already have some college development to them, making their rankings typically more accurate than kids out of high school. Not in every case, but usually.
just as long as you put “IMO.” I think the coaches don’t care one bit about stars, only fans do. Once practices start, nobody will think about stars, just producing
Im certainly no talent expert, but this has been a common theme the last few cycles.
We offer a kid we probably otherwise wouldnt, because of a transfer, dismissal, early departure to the NFL, miss out on a higher target towards NSD, etc.
I highly doubt the coaches offered this kid expecting him to be an impact player, more along the lines of depth. Depth is always important though.
If he ends up playing meaningful snaps, it will probably be a pleasant surprise.
Boom! Love the size and athleticism of this kid, combine that with a potential for immediate impact.
His hudl looks pretty salty to me.
O and BOOMERRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SOOOONNNNNEEEERRRRR!!!!!!!
Good afternoon Sam.
Howdie, Metzker. I was glad to see the walls didn’t collapse whe Jones went back to SC. But there is a fundamental breakdown somewhere when your commitment can’t last 24 hours. It appears these kids have somehow been able to one-up gaming the system. It’s a total embarrassment to themselves and their families.
I so agree Sam I as a parent would be ashamed., but thats the old school in me I guess.
No it isn’t. It’s their life. Where is your concern when the ADULT coach who recruited them leaves after one year with a gazillion dollars? (the same one who probably lied his ass off to get the kid there)
Kids are stuck after they commit. It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity and there are LOTS of things going on in their mind. Breaking your heart isn’t one of them- it aint personal.
I agree with you. It goes both ways.
Very insightful Charlie Strong interview. It shows how hes swinging all of these recruits with his personality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acI_VdCzkjQ&feature=youtu.be
Lmao
I’d seen it before, decided towatch it again. was laughing so hard I was sweating and had to keep taking clothes off.
Jackson would play our jackbacker spot, and provide quality depth behind obo and Deberry. It’s a different position, more a tweener or rush end position. It’s definitely a need for sure with the loss of Bond and Striker.
Let’s see how long this one last
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All kids aren’t the same, as I’m sure you are aware.
I’m just playing guys
You got the Bandit with ya?
Don’t know what your talking about so no.
Burt Reynolds and Jerry Reid Smokey and the bandit.
smh if you can’t get that…Classic movie
So true JD
I thought it was like another poster reference. Hell ya I know smokey and the bandit. My nickname is snowman out in the oilpatch.
Keep the sunny side up and the greasy side down
I liked his music as well as his personality
One of a kind.
Oh lmao no but Fred is with me
Fred o come on Fred I was only funning———— tombstone
I didn’t mean to sound so serious. My fault.
Sam you need to lighten up a bit lol.
Yeah. I think I will post a prank about an OP being up. LOL!
ooooooo take it from me don’t do that, it has massive repercussions lol
Even if you put a /s behind it.
What if I did this: /SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS?
Nope it doesn’t work.
Guess what’s up?
An OP For the weekend?
It worked!!
I almost hit a big rack on my morning drive to work Friday.It would have been a big loss for him and my truck.
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Yes Sir!
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Well done
Love this Jake
Thanks, Metz! Cage can provide a good laugh on the ol’ internet.
Brandon said on twitter there are some good notes, and more info about that secret WR target coming up very soon.
Retweet please I don’t have twitter
Yes sir will do, but I think the OP was the info he was referring to.
Ok ill look thanks.
OP is up!
No comment.
For real.
Really, why not?
Going to have to go with ‘coaches know best’ what they need and who can best fill the voids. Welcome to the Sooner Nation!!! Now do great things!!!
Any film on Beal out there that can be posted here? Seems like OU has more offers that will likely turn into commits and still making more offers than scholarship space actually available.
I found Beal’s film on hudl. When I watch film on outside linebackers there are three things I look for: back side pursuit, holding the point of attack and coverag skills. Granted all we see are highlight plays but with that said Beal looks pretty good. He has a few moves when rushing from the edge other than just speed rush around the edge; he dips, has a swim move and a little head fake that gets the OT leaning the wrong way and then Beal jests past him. Keeps blockers off him with good arm extension. Tackled well, hits the ball carrier with some violence and has meat hooks for hands.
thanks for the scouting report
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I really think he has star potential! Just hit the weight room with passion. One question I have in general is how many “moves” are possible in the repertoire of a pass rusher? 1) dip, 2) head fake, 3) swim, 4) spin 5) jump…more?
FIRE KISH!! s/
He just can’t recruit LBs
Why?
Give him a chance he’s only been on staff a short time.
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With Charlie Strong struggling to find success, and UT trending down, and OU projected to be ranked in the top 5 for the next five year, why do recruits still choose UT? Seriously.
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