Sooners News Daily 10.31.14
Posted on: October 31, 2014
Have fun and be safe tonight
FOOTBALL
This is pretty damn scary for Tony Jefferson. (Deadspin)
First it was Bob Stoops stupidly being mentioned for the expected soon to be available Michigan job by CFB “experts” who had no clue what they were talking about, and now it’s Joe Castiglione. (Football Scoop)
RECRUITING
http://t.co/pp1Do76Pll #Sooners MT @SWiltfong247 Michigan Top247 LB commit Darrin Kirkland Jr. schedules officials to #OleMiss & #Oklahoma.
— Jordan Esco (@Jordan_Esco) October 30, 2014
#Sooners apparently make another 2015 CB offer, this time to Clemson commit Juwuan Briscoe. https://t.co/aoKgMN1iJl http://t.co/C9QY1RiLe2
— Jordan Esco (@Jordan_Esco) October 30, 2014
Yet another #Sooners 2015 CB offer (Will Lockett) and another to a prospect committed elsewhere (UCLA). https://t.co/c3b7vgZnhz
— Jordan Esco (@Jordan_Esco) October 30, 2014
OTHER
Looks like fun times at last night’s OU Baseball ALS Awareness scrimmage. (Sooner Sports)
Women’s b-ball held a scrimmage last night as well. (Sooner Sports)
The 2015 OU softball schedule has been released: http://t.co/bTuZ9DlawW It all starts Feb. 5 vs. DePaul in Hawaii! pic.twitter.com/qSyfv26FRS
— Oklahoma Softball (@OU_Softball) October 30, 2014
23 Comments
why all the offers to committed CB’s Jordan? You think the coaches feel someone might decommit from OU or they’re going to miss out on a target they felt good about?
It’s more about missing. Looking at 247 I don’t find OU in the finals for a single CB they’ve been recruiting. It’s almost as disappointing as the ILB recruiting where OU has noone and both are areas of great need. At least we’ve got PJ at CB and Sunderland at safety.
So what you’re saying is all this recruiting momentum we had is gone? Hope we can find a few diamonds in the rough (ala Charles Walker) and develop some 2-3 star guys…
Pretty much. With what you’ve seen us do on defense most of the year, if you were a kid, would you be overly anxious to come to OU? Kids want to play an attacking style, not a “sit back and let somebody run into you and hope they fall down style”. Our coaching and scheme right now is a great recruiting tool against us.
I wish we didn’t have to rely so heavily on “momentum” to land recruits and/or to lure them away from schools like texas tech, tcu, baylor etc.
I don’t think anyone is decommitting, grated they only have one CB commit. And, yes, I do think these offers are a reflection of how they must feel re: their previous offers. Also could have something to do w/ the current roster, but I tend to stay away from that type of speculation this time of the year/season.
I feel like they are trying to bring in guys they can move to LB. Jordan Evans played Safety before LB so maybe they are trying that.
Do you think Tony forgot that he really wanted to play football at USC too?
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Recruiting on the defensive side of the ball seems somewhat frantic right now.
This recruiting is looking tough, we may need to hand out better candy.
These recruiting woes don’t make any sense. I mean we did build a nice student dorm. Problem fixed?
Bob Stoops said the new dorm would be a game changer?
http://www.soonersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=31000&ATCLID=208862890
Seems a lot of folks said they were.
Oklahoma has clearly lost some recruiting momentum.
Kish could find himself looking for work if he whiffs at Linebacker. He had a who’s who list.
Plus he may just not be the fit we had hoped.
Michigan LB coming on a visit, tells me Jerry is getting in on LB recruiting. Already feeling a bit better.
I know this is an exaggeration on my part, but sometimes I feel like every kid you hear is “high on OU” Monty is their lead recruiter.
Might not be an exaggeration, he is a beast of a recruiter. The others in this staff not named Gundy need to step up to match him, really!
They truly may need to bring in a recruiting coordinator that is solely focused on LB’s. I don’t see them firing Kish so something will need to change with his recruiting.
Ummmm, which of our current CB commits is wavering….
As a Cowboys fan I hope he doesn’t play, but as a human being I would never wish for an Injury on someone. Even a Texass player. Hope the team Doctors are taking this very seriously
Wow. Both Kirkland and Briscoe are impressive. Kirkland reminds me of a prototypical Alabama LB. And Briscoe is Sammy Watkins Jr. I just don’t see Briscoe succeeding playing as a cb 9 yards off LOS though.
Finally saw the Boz 30 for 30. Unlike the Marcus Dupree film, which I still think is maybe the best 30 for 30 they’ve done–compelling even for non-OU fans, and definitely “must see” for any fan, I thought this one was just ok. I was a huge Boz fan back in the day, crazy about his playing on the field, and entertained by his antics off it, still have my copy of the book, and I absolutely loved seeing all the footage of him in the day.
All shows of this type have a certain amount of self-serving rewriting of history, but this one had maybe a little bit too much, on all sides.
Fascinating to see the “hit” and realize that due to all the hype surrounding it at the time, my memory was of a much bigger truck by Bo. Seeing it now, it’s hard to imagine how completely and utterly devastating that moment was to Boz’s entire image, and any parts of his career related to it.
I’m glad he’s re-accepted by most as part of the OU family and the great OU player that he was. The concept of building the show around showing the memorabilia to his son was a good one, and all in all it was a nice retelling of his story, but I didn’t feel there was anything compelling or particularly enlightening about the presentation. ymmv…:-)