The Football Brainiacs

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– Tre Jackson: Oklahoma offered 2016 CB Tre Jackson (5’10” 178 – Baon Rouge, LA) on Thursday night, although the Sooners have been in contact with Jackson for a little while now. We spoke with Jackson last night, who said Kerry Cooks let him know the OU staff had been reviewing and discussing his film lately and collectively decided to extend the offer. Jackson said he was very excited about the offer and that he’s planning to visit OU later this summer with his father.

We’ve talked a lot about the fact that Cooks is looking to add more speed to the OU secondary and Jackson would certainly do that. At one of recent the Nike regional combines, Jackson posted a 4.49 laser 40 and 4.12 shuttle, which is incredibly impressive and gives you an idea of the kind of short area burst he possesses. But he also posted a 40.7 inch vertical which, was the best jump measured by anyone at any of SPARQ events in the nation.

This is a young man who clearly has tremendous burst and quickness, but also great long speed as well. In short, you’d be really hard pressed to find a more athletic cornerback. – (Super K)

– Teton Saltes: You may recall we told you earlier in the week about Mike Stoops making the trip out to New Mexico to visit with the 2016 DE. Saltes’ name is really starting to make the rounds on the recruiting scene as he has picked up offers from a number of schools. He could easily wind up being this year’s Neville Gallimore.

This is just a young man with tremendous upside and in talking with his high school coach, it’s clear that everyone who comes through the school has been thoroughly impressed.

What many people may not be aware of, however, is that Saltes has an interesting tie to the state of Oklahoma. His mother was actually born and raised in Oklahoma. And, as I believe we told you previously, they still have extended family in the state so Saltes has made numerous trips to Oklahoma to visit them. Saltes has visited the state on numerous occasions.

Mike Stoops has not yet extended an offer, but after the two met earlier this week Saltes told TFB he’s under the impression one could be coming. But for now it sounds like he is content to continue building relationships with those coaches who have offered.

Growing up as a basketball player and having two parents, one of whom played at the college level, Saltes and his family don’t seem particularly concerned or enamored by the big name programs like Oregon, Oklahoma, Alabama or Ohio State. Like Gallimore, it seems to be much more so about the relationships they forge with the coaches. – (Super K)

– Kellen Diesch: Alex and I spoke to a couple different sources regarding Kellen Diesch’s recruitment. Diesch, as many of you will recall, is the ultra talented 2016 offensive tackle out of Texas whose family is originally from Oklahoma. Diesch actually told Rivals’ Jason Howell in a previous interview that he and his family grew up OU fans. A lot of people felt that shortly after releasing a list of his tops schools (which included Oklahoma, of course) Diesch would commit. However, that obviously did not happen.

So we reached out to a couple people to try and get a feel for where things currently stand. Alex’s source told him that the word around school is that it looked like OU was the school to beat, but as of late Arkansas seems to have made a big push. My source told me something similar, saying that Arkansas may in fact even be his leader at the moment.

Other than an occasional text, we haven’t had much communication with Diesch. So we haven’t been able to get a strong sense one way or another directly from him, but whatever the case may be the sentiment seems to be it’s an OU & Arkansas battle right now. – (Alex & Super K)

– Walker Little: Oklahoma recently offered 2017 offensive lineman Walker Little (6’7″ 295 – Bellaire, TX), who is teammates with a couple other 2017 stars in DT Marvin Wilson (who OU has offered) and WR Jhamon Ausbon (who holds one FBS offer and should have plenty more soon).

I asked Walker about the Sooners offer and he said, “I’ve liked OU since I was little.” He has a camp schedule set which includes Ole Miss, Texas (offered), Baylor, Stanford and Alabama but said now that OU has offered “I’ll definitely be trying to get up there (to Norman) sometime soon.” – (Brandon)

– Matt Hegarty: Some of you may recall the Notre Dame offensive lineman announced a few months back that he’d be transferring. Hegarty received a considerable amount of playing time for the Irish, and a couple months back Brandon reported that Hegarty was planning to visit three schools, OU among them. We’ve since been told that visit did in fact take place, but clearly there has been little in the way of news in some time.

So we started to do some digging and learned that Hegarty actually had plans to make a return visit to Norman this weekend. However, we’ve now been told the trip has been postponed, at least for now.

Our source was not able to confirm the exact reasons for the visit not happening, but believes that weather — some are predicting the chance of severe storms, again, in the area this weekend — could have easily played a role. Our source also added there is at least an expectation the visit will be rescheduled. – (Super K)

– Nick Harvey: We told you last week about Harvey having visited Norman as he continues to consider transferring from Texas A&M. In speaking with some people familiar with Harvey’s situation, we’ve been told that assuming his release is granted the Sooners will be a strong candidate to land him. Oklahoma recruited Harvey out of high school and from what we’ve been told, he is still fond of the Sooners as a result. It’s certainly not a done deal at the moment, but it is starting to look more and more like a strong possibility of happening. – (Alex)

– Lagaryonn Carson: Oklahoma stopped by Texarkana this weekend and visited stud 2017 DE Largaryonn Carson and the Sooners officially extended an offer to Carson on Thursday. Carson told TFB he has plans to visit a number of schools this summer and has a particular interest in OU. His mother actually lives in Oklahoma so it was clear in talking to him the OU offer was one he very much wanted. – (Super K)

– Alan Ali: 2017 offensive lineman Alan Ali (6’5″ 270 – Fort Worth, TX) let us know that Oklahoma stopped by to see him last week. Alex came across his film recently and he’s a guy we expect we garner a lot more attention moving forward. – (Super K)

– UPDATE (Fri., 11:21 am): Texas A&M has reportedly offered 2016 OU commit Adrian Hardy.

– UPDATE (Fri., 4:38 pm): One-time OU target, Bo Wallace, will be heading to the desert and joining a former Sooners assistant (Jackie Shipp).

#ASU announces it has added former #NotreDame DE recruit Bo Wallace who had signed with ND in Feb.

— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) May 15, 2015

– UPDATE (Fri., 10:24 pm):