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Happy for all days, all the days. We've got some fun stuff to
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talk about here on Sunday evening here on the Sooner or Later Sports Show.
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Thank y'all for pulling up. I'm your host, Jay. Thank you for
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anyway, and gifted. So we got Coop in the house. We've got
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some fun stuff to talk about because it's been one of those weekends. Right,
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We're gonna talk about last week and how I went to the camps.
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We'll talk about ov weekend as well as who we may have landed. Right.
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We also got to commit me for twenty twenty six. We're gonna talk
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about him, dive into that. I also was listening to Oklahoma Breakdown.
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If you saw my video earlier, got a little heat check, goa talk
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about that a little bit too, because I gotta get Koop's opinion all the
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thoughts of the team going forward. So hit us up on the unfairfan line
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four three zero nine zero one one nine zero six, and let's know what
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you take the show love to get y'all stronger's opinions, and you may actually
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end up on one of these shows one day, so you can just hit
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us up four three zero nine zero one one nine oh and six. Cope.
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Happy Sunday, my man. Happy Father's Day to you, Happy Father's
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Day to all the father's in here. How's it going, a man,
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Happy Father's Day to everybody out. It's a it's a it's official visit season.
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So the ramp up, the ramp up is going. It is nice.
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I bet, I bet James. No, I did not get an
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offer. I went to the camp and they told me to leave immediately,
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expeditiously or whatnot. No kidding, but no, there was it was.
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The camp was cool. Of course I didn't get an offer, but there
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was a lot of cool stuff that was going on there. Lenman, thank
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you for pulling up very tipsy. First. Glad that you were able to
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join us. Robbie, Glad to see you as usual. Same thing with
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you, Steven G. You're always consistent. Thanks to my people. Happy
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Father's Day to the dawn. Have Father's at everybody else too. Thank y'all
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for joining us late. We pushed it back. Of course, a little
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big Coop was out getting some fishing in with the with the kiddos man.
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How was that? Uh? Yeah, the uh man got a new fishing
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pole for the for Father's Day. And so my daughter is, my daughter
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has fishing traps. We get a pond back behind the house. So she's
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got fishing traps and a net and everything and uh and she wanted to use
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my fishing pole. So went out there and we got a couple and found
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an found a bandoned water snake she almost stepped on. So you know that
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that kind of stuff. Ate some good food. Uh. I like taking
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care of my family on Father's Day. It's uh, it's that's I'm not
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gonna take a day off. It's it's it's time to go. So it's
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just been great. So doing this a little bit later in the evening allow
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you guys to wrap up your Father's take fun, right, you know,
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always no days off. Right, you can go ahead and get that grill
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or what. Now. I was lucky I didn't have to cook today.
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I got to enjoy some food. But the best party is of course,
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Koop. As you said, you were gifted a fishing pole and your daughter
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want to use it, so she got to basically break it in for you.
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You know, that's always a big plus, right. The beauties of
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being a pops man ain't nothing better than being a dad man. Kids are
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awesome, love mine. They're terrorists. They terrorize me all the time.
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But I love every minute of it. And it's what you know, just
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you know, makes enjoyment in life. So if you ever having the opportunity's
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fun. And what we get to talk about now is other people's kids,
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right the best part we get to talk about them and send them home.
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We don't have to actually take care of these, but team will because as
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fans, we're gonna have to take care of some of these because we know
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that if we can gain these commitments, we need to. Soone talk camp
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first, the fun of the camp. So and PG actually hung out a
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shot up a message he may join, he may not. I'm not sure
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he. I think he's probably still cooking or whatnot. But we had went
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to went to the Previtables camp. You know, they had that on Tuesday
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and Thursday. I showed up on uh. I was able to go on
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Thursday for a little bit and see some of the skills positions. They had
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the quarterbacks going as well in the afternoon at the quarterbacks and the wide receiver's
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going and they had wide receiver dB drills. Think the linebacker was doing some
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stuff. And let's start about this first. What's going on? Be Rich,
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thank you for pulling up. Gotta give you that insight for sooner stuff
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and happy Father's Day. I know that you are, you know'll be up
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there in Ohio. We'll providing you that sooner content. So thank you for
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pulling up as usual. But we got to talk about this. This Jane
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O'Neil quarterback, this situation doub so I saw him in person, and if
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you follow me on the expert or whatnot, you did see be some videos
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on him. You saw PG drop, some videos you saw from all the
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outlets. Yeah, he's the real deal and he he did an interview from
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correct with Scoop as well as Raff. I did a interview with you folks
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and basically said, after this unofficial visit and can't visit Oklahoma's is number one
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team. Then of course you saw the plethora of the crystal balls flow in.
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So I'm sensing as he had stated in the interview late July early August,
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Man, we may have our quarterback for twenty twenty six, which is
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huge to have this summer because that leads us into next recruiting cycle of having
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someone being busy attracting other talent in and when I heard how he kind of
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ties in and weaves in with Oklahola, like there's a bunch of strands that
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cross pass over the years, which is dope but cool. When you saw
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some of that video, when you saw some of the film, Man,
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what got you excited about ja do you? First? Foremost? I would
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say that, you know, when people talk about meeting Adriane Peterson or Samajah
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p Ryan, like early in Kenneth Murray early in their career. Sometimes even
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at camps, people were like I walked up to him trying to figure out
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whose dad that person was, and O'Neil looks like, I mean, he's
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grown a man, Like he looks like someone's pops, and so it looks
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like, you know, I should go ahead and tell him, you know,
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you know, happy Father's Day too, But but no, I mean
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he you know, right at the first bit, I mean when he throws
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the ball, it is it's just beautiful and you know from everything that I
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heard from you guys, and then you know, I would love to have
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been down there, but I had several doctors appointments and stuff, so I
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couldn't make it down there. But you know, there was a lot of
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buzz around him throwing. He looks like Jameis Winston like when he was at
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Florida State. Yes, that's who he looks like. Right when I first
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saw and I mean Jameis Winston in college was that dude. And so,
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you know, disregarding anything about crab legs and everything else, but but no,
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I mean, he just he's big, He has a he has a
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grown man's body already. I mean it's the arm strength this guy has coaching
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out in front of him that's gonna make him better. So you know,
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what you don't see is decision making. But you know he's going to have
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some time to to hit it up. So, uh it sounds like this
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is going to be set up pretty pretty soon. And when as Oklahoma continues
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to climb, we need the quarterback in place for like a legit dude on
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the quarterback uh spot, and that helps you get closer to those one of
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those you know, one, two, three or four class in the you
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know, for that year, you've got to have that big time quarterback.
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It's hard for even Oklahoma to have a top one or two class, you
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know if you don't have a quarterback, a big stud quarterback, not just
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say you know, taking somebody for the class, but I mean having the
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dude. So expect this twenty six class to just be absolute fire. And
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it sets up you know what are we looking at three or four classes in
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a row where brand Vinnibles is just doing work? So all right, he's
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and then asking adding to the future, that adding guys that are ready to
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recruit for the future. And that was the thing that I mean, like
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I said, what jumped out to me and just watching him just when he's
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just watching him throw the ball during the camp, I'm just like, first
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off, like you say, he's huge, I mean he's he's a legitimate
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sixty three probably too ten, right, I think he's listed at two hundred.
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He's a legitimate sixt three to ten, if not to twenty. He's
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a huge human being. And then on top of that, I think what
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was crazy about him the most was he's a sophomore. Right, so he's
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saying, age's my son sitting having a conversation with him. Dude, super
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mature. And you know, his focus was on getting better every day,
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right. You know, he kind of talked about the recruiting process a little
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bit and said, you know, there's certain things that's involved, and you
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you know, you got to pay attention to if it exists. But for
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me, the focus is getting better every day and really you know, pushing
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forward. At the same time, when I was talking to PG, He's
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okay with me saying this. Like Jayden was focused on he was trying to
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get people there, Like he actually recruited guys to come to the Venables camp,
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like he told them, Hey, I need y'all to go ahead and
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pull up and join your boy. And being able to see do that,
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I mean obvious leadership. Right. And if even if he you know,
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quote unquote doesn't pick Oklahoma, which I think he's picking Oklahoma, I'm just
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gonna say that now. He came in with the thought process of I want
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I want to recruit some folks to wherever I go. So if I can
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get you to come to the camp that I'm at, we can chop it
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up, build some relationship, ship rapport and then pushed forward to some and
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and wherever we end up, hopefully we can end up together. I love
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that aspect of his personality, and I love that he knows that he's a
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centerpiece. And of course everybody that watched him believe me, everybody's watching him
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and was like, oh, this guy's really good, Like there was no
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denying how good he is, just going through the camps right his awareness.
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Like the one video I posted on on social media, he was directing his
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wide receiver and telling him, hey, no go here, Yeah, this
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is what you're gonna do. And he basically looked at him and kind of
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mouthed him where he wanted to go. Then the dude get the route.
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Boom, he stopped back by box launched it and it was a beautiful spiral
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that landed right in his hand, just in the bucket, right the bucket.
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So for anybody recognized, this is most likely your QB for the next
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who this is twenty six. He's gonna he's gonna play. I mean,
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based upon the sidegold quarterbacks from Jackson Arnold down to Michael Hawkins to Kevin Sperry
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to him, he's gonna get you at least two years and there's he may
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be good enough to try to steal a spot early, right, Like he
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has the the the the pocket awareness and movement mobility to play. Not saying
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he's Caleb Williams, but he could play like him, especially at his size,
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like he's not little. That's that's the means what jumped out. So
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yeah, we we may have quep you one. And it's cool. He's
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a Cali kid, you know, and there's a linebacker in town with them,
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with them Michael was it? Uh uh oh he gosh, I always
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forget how to pronounce his name. That's on me. But he oh sure,
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I can't think you could do first Anyway, he was in town as
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well, and they will go to the same school. So he's trying to
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recruit a linebacker for the class A problem to come here. Yeah, and
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now he's gonna be a five star like Chaos. No, he will be
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because right now he's ranked at about like seventy eighth in the country. He'll
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be our Nick Jackson Arnold. He'll be a top he'll be a top thirty
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two player in the country by the end of next cycle. That's how good
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he is. That's how good he is. Yeah, when and then you
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know when he hits the you know, the Elite eleven and all the quarterback
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circuits and stuff like that, I mean you're gonna see that. But and
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I saw where you know, some folks were comparing him to Caleb Williams,
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you know, from the leadership standpoint and just kind of like the playmaking football
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IQ, when to pull it down, when when to toss it? I
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mean, yeah, that he just he's got so many great pieces and you
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know it's a dad gum shame that he can't find himself a good school to
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go to over there in California. But you know, we will definitely oblige.
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And but the leadership piece, I mean he like you said with the
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line backer, you know, he was talking to Zusie and Heywood. I
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mean he is just talking to everybody, trying to get folks. I mean,
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he is trying to set himself up. And so I mean that's what
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you want in a quarterback, is somebody who's gonna come in because I when
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you look at the talent and you're like, all right, talents check,
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there we go, you try to dig into some of the leadership stuff and
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that's Brentvinnable's way is to get leaders team captain's on here. So I mean,
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I don't want to freak anybody out, but I mean a guy like
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this coming in, I mean you start looking because when you see everybody kind
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of gathering around and oohing and awe and a stuff like that, I mean,
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you know, you got to be a pretty confident person, you know,
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like you said, from Arnold to Hawkins to Sperry, and you know,
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start breaking all that. I mean, everybody, everybody that is in
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front of him, they know who he is at this point, so you
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know, hopefully nobody gets scared off. But if that is the case,
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I mean, this is a dude who you feel good about. Yeah,
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I feel great about him. And you know, this is a very good
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point, Brandon, And he makes mention of not saying it isn't important to
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get a great high school quarterback, but it's not as important as is as
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it used to be with the Portal. The Portal always have some top notched
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quarterbacks too. That's a fair point. But it's only if you're willing to
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get a veteran presence that you could try to quickly acclimate. The best thing
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is having a quarterback that's been in your system for a couple of years and
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then they go out there and tear it up. Right. It's it's always
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having that familiarity with not only the wide receivers and then a dude that's recruiting
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other players in right. Yeah, transfers are usually coming in solo. Occasionally
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may bring a wide receiver or a tight end. We saw that with Jackson
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Dart back in the day. But most of the time they're usually riding solo.
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And for you, what you want is you want to find a way
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to get a dude that's going to recruit other players to his class so they
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can grow together. Right, growing internally through the recruiting process has it still
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shows it's proven to be the best way. Now as the portal matures and
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everything gets better, Wolf start to have some actual case studies. So if
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you can refresher Robb's multiple times I lie a Colorado, then we'll be able
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to tell if that's something that's viable and that can work. But overall,
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I'm excited and I'm with you, Steven G. I do see that there
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is a very great chance that he'll be top fifteen. He's just that talented
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right, he's getting a lot of attention too as he's going to these camps
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ATLIT eleven. He'll end up being a probably a finalist. He may win
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that thing, like Jackson Arnold did. I expect him to be a five
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star plus for the twenty six cycle. And like I said, we get
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him, We land him this summer. That just spearheads twenty six with him,
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Jonathan Hatton and the other recruit we just got. Let's talk about him
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really quickly. So we got our sun as a commit that literally, literally
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to me, came out of nowhere, Like I wasn't prepared for this now
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granted, and some other folks knew that this was a potential because there was
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some you know, conversations around it. But we got ourselves a uh,
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we gotta say, it's a tight end for the twenty sixth class. So
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you've got Jonathan Hadden Junior, the running back that committed last year like randomly,
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like it went September October or something cool. What was that? It
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was weird because like you get it, and if I'm correct, the coaching
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staff at Oklahoma was still in shock that you had that that happened, Like
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it's like we did you know this dude was gonna commit, But then here
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this weekend twenty six, you got yourself your tight end in h rider mix.
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Right. Writer is out of Frisco, Texas tight end. He is
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nice size, like six' four, but two twenty he's definitely gonna get
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bigger than that. He has the size to be bigger than that too.
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Look at that, look at that catch and just hit, just run people
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over. Frisco, Texas plays at Long Star High School. And I think
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this is the thing that jumped out to me when I was kind of,
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you know, reading up on some stuff. Not only if I'm correct,
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his pops is a legacy OU, but also his wide receiver coach, which
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that I don't know why to do it. His wide receiver coach is Travis
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Wilson, who played wide receiver here. He got two Big twelve championships and
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then his head coach graduated and think played baseball at OU as well. So
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it's a lot of OU legacy there. But he's out of the Frisco area,
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and yeah he decided that Nah, wrap it up. I'm here,
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And the way he plays tougher, I don't like giving people that level of
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Mark Andrews right now. But hey, you may not, may not,
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I may not can be argued with it. Cool what you think about that?
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Yeah, I mean you look at him and there's some of the you
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know, his highlights we're watching right now. You see some you know what
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you saw from Vower Sharp, you know when he's coming in. Just the
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athletic to change the direction is what really just impresses me. He's got good
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feet, he can stay above his feet, he doesn't extend himself out.
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And so I mean, yeah, it's hard to say, like, hey,
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this guy's going to be the next Mark Andrews. But with you know,
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Zvon Mitchell being on in the fold, I got to think that we
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get somebody else here. I mean, there's just opportunities when you got guys
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who are connected to the program. You just don't want to miss out on
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him. And I do believe that, you know, you got Jonathan Hadden
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looks like he So I'm looking at the date. The commit was October third,
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so he's been in the fold for you know, close to nine months
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now, so you have him in here. So I mean quarterback, tied
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end running back to start off your twenty sixth class and I'm kind of speaking
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that the O'Neal piece. Yeah, just I mean, and with the defensive
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line, and you know there's work that you know, we'll talk about on
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the offensive line that could be kind of coming fruition. You start feeling,
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you start feeling really good, and oh, he's going to have a shot.
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You do some damage in the SEC this year in that twenty sixth class,
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we've got a chance to pushing number one. Yep, we'll have the
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opportunity. And I think Jay O'Neil's gonna be a spearhead for that. Right,
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Jonathan Hatten's gonna definitely continue to rise, especially as he's been showing a
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lot of speed right his hundreds. I think he's like at the ten five
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ten six range. I actually he may be faster, and that I may
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be just misquoting it, but I know he's fast, and he keeps improving.
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Then you know, Jayden O'Neill will continue to rise, and I think
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mix was gonna is gonna continue to grow in as just and just as James
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here pointed out, he's listed it too in a quarter and he looks it
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like he legitimately looks it. And then when you watch him play, You're
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like, oh, man, he's nimble, you can move him out in
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the slot. And so makes you think about like the recruiting here for tight
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end right now, right, So talk about Von Mitchell when when George Stoyer
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was on here on Wednesday night, we talked about kind of the way the
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recruiting has gone at the tight end role. And I know everybody hasn't been
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quote unquote that's impressed. But the Von Mitchell is a twenty five that reclassified,
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so he's seventeen years old. He's out there looking like a girl man.
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So there's a chance that you know, development there is going to continue
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to grow this class. When I was at the camp, I was watching
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Treney Washington, the athlete out of Carl Albert. He can play tight end
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because I mean he's a legitimate six three two twenty he's legitimately that side side,
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he's a pretty solid dude. He could easily play tight end like that.
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That's your that's your tight end for this class to add to what we've
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already got, and the rest of our tight ends is still pretty young.
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So I think, if anything, you're probably gonna want to take a couple
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in twenty six to really make sure you boaster up twenty six and probably twenty
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seven. But I think we have a pretty heavy room. And I also
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believe, and this is why I want to eat your thoughts on Coop,
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I still believe that Coach Finley's best chance is to go ahead and continue to
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live in the portal for tight Ends. What you think, well, I
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mean, like I can't remember who we said it earlier about, you know,
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potentially going in there for a quarterback. This is one that you can
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do. I mean, you look at Jake Roberts, Jake Roberts. I
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mean, it didn't story us saying Jake Roberts is going to play a lot
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this year. You know, he may be the starter up friends, and
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so I mean you can go after that type of guy. But I mean,
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you with the young crop that you have on here, you kind of
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I mean, you're gonna need somebody who can come in and just you know,
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maybe be some leadership and be a Jake Roberts type of the guy,
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because I mean, some of the talent's going to start scaring folks away,
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and it's you're going to have to have just that that we're good right now,
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the tight Ends I'm happy Helms is Helms is starting to kind of put
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some stuff together. The help is there now you know you still got macins
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Hire. It's the tight end. This is what I would say with jo
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John Finley. Don't let any potential Ohio state commits affect your thoughts on Joe
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John Finley. The situation is just kind of a one off. He's putting
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in work with Von Mitchell coming in, Yes, Hawkins helps out with that,
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but you got to have team recruiting with the coaches to play in the
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big boy leagues. No, and that's fair. It's it's the one thing
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that I feel like JJF is at a disadvantage is on that the way that
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we've leveraged tight end since he's been part of this regime. So, like
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you mentioned, I think it's just got to take some time. We've got
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to prove it. My only fear that I've had this year is dog our
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wide receiver room is pretty stacked, right, And it's not that it's just
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stacked with kids that we like, but it's it's it's it's proven statistically like
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we're bringing back like over three thousand something yards right in production, including if
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you had your transferring in at six hundred additional yards. We got a lot
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of talent coming through on the wide receiver side. But if we can find
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a way to levers a tight end and show that no, the tight end
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is one that we care about, there's a very very good chance that we
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can uh may do something. So yeah, and I won't say that you
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listen, you could be very very excited about the recruiting, the high school
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recruiting, but let's be honest, we have I mean, look at Bryce
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Foster. Bryce Foster was like one of the biggest misses, one of the
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biggest meltdowns that we've ever had when he chose A and N Well, he
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just didn't pan out. So I mean, you you're still going to have
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those situations where we win, we pay a guy he you know, we
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play the nil game and he shows out and he doesn't turn out. You
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know it. There's it's different. It's different being made on campus when you're
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a high school senior. But you come on to campus and I mean,
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let's be honest, you're a student athlete, but I mean you're putting in
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a good amount of time on the football field and sometimes it just it isn't
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for everybody, and sometimes that passionate fire kind of disappears. So you want
24:18
to continue to build these recruiting classes, get these quarterbacks. I mean,
24:22
hell yeah. If I could say, like next one up, let's let's
24:25
put a just top quality, borderline four star, five star center in with
24:30
this crew, and that is your four wall foundation for a for a pretty
24:34
darden good class. Sermon, that's real. So I think this class is
24:41
gonna round out very nicely. And yeah, I like where we're going with
24:48
twenty six. We're already starting early. Twenty five started off super early for
24:52
us, if you'll remember, so kind of a level set things for those
24:56
that I know maybe having some questions of wondering for twenty twenty five. The
25:03
reason why we started super fast than that class was in twenty twenty three,
25:11
the NCAAA had only extended for two years if they did not limit how many
25:15
scholarships. If for the uninitiated before that, the limit was twenty five scholarships
25:22
per season. Right, you're gonna have no more than twenty five signees for
25:25
your class, and right at COVID they changed that. Then when the portal
25:30
stuff came through, the coaches complained and said look, you're allowing kids to
25:33
transfer at least one time, just our Willy Milly. Well, we need
25:38
to be able to fill our rosters with somebody, right, We're not gonna
25:41
always be able to get transfers. And so they lifted the restriction of how
25:45
many scholarships you could do per class. And that's when you start to see
25:48
these bigger classes like we had with twenty seven last year and twenty six a
25:52
year before. You start to see those bigger classes. Well, the NCAA
25:56
ruled on it in twenty twenty three that they're gonna to just keep it going
26:00
forward, and so twenty four wasn't gonna be the last year moving forward.
26:04
Your numbers eighty five, so if you want to, you can recruit eighty
26:07
five kids. Ain't nobody gonna recruit eighty five freshmen because nobody wants eighty five
26:11
freshmen to try to play. You gotta have experience if you want to survive
26:15
in this game. But now it's unlimited as far as it's it's whatever scholarship
26:21
you have available. So for this class, so twenty five, all these
26:25
kids started to get in early because there was rumbles that people believed it was
26:27
going back to twenty five, so you start to see a lot of these
26:30
kids jump in early. That's why this year was the anomaly of all the
26:33
other years we've had, because typically we get most of our commitments in July.
26:38
July is the staff encourages doing your official visits. But when you raise
26:45
a lot of things down, lock it down and then go nowhere else,
26:48
and it's usually in July. So July is when most of them finish up
26:52
their last visits because quiet period ends at the end of it starts next month,
26:59
not the Monday. Come up with the Monday after that, and then
27:02
it goes all the way through to the end of July. And this we'll
27:03
have our party at the palace at the end of the month. And so
27:07
because of that, that's the anticipation that you know, we'll probably see more
27:11
commitments. Now we gotta start talking about these twenty five kids that he come
27:17
to visit, because we had a lot of them first of the list looks
27:19
like it popped up. I think I want to talk about him. Elijah
27:22
with Lindez, Oh boy Coop see the pictures. That's how the pictures about
27:33
the pretty dope and uh, he would like he enjoyed himself. Why can't
27:41
we play with these jerseys more often? These jerseys are so I mean,
27:45
they're so dope. I it's like every one of these pictures look, I
27:52
mean just look, I mean just absolutely phenomenal. And they're like, let's
27:56
let's keep them for recruiting. This is the one that I love. This
27:59
is everybody love. Yeah, yeah, right, the Miami ALIU to a
28:10
kid that's currently committed to Miami, Miami. And based upon all the social
28:18
media posts that we've seen, I saw something from ou Insider if I'm correct
28:21
Scoops Pop something on social media's kind of some interviews they have. Check out
28:23
their articles if you're subscribed. If not, feel fretty subscribe the Insiders.
28:29
They always got some great detail in there. They able to get a lot
28:32
dig a lot deeper into there. And one thing I saw in there is
28:36
that Oklahoma has flown up the list right in the social media posts, They're
28:41
up, like up, like to the point where he's like, they have
28:45
a legitimate chance. There's a good shot. He was very much impressed,
28:48
and he liked the fact that when he got in there, you had BV
28:52
in there really talking details, Ali talking details about his game and how he
28:57
fits what Okaoma's doing. I think Olhoma really wants him. I think he's
29:00
the linebacker. If there's a linebacker in this class that they will to get
29:03
their hands on outside of what we already got. That's the one I'm sensing.
29:08
This is the dude. How you feeling about him? I mean you
29:15
I feel good about him. I'll leave it there. He he this is
29:19
this is one of those linebackers that he just reckless abandon. I mean,
29:26
it reminds me of Lewis Carter h So you know, I just go with
29:32
this is when you when you're doing pictures like the like the Dunk one,
29:37
you're kind of saying something and it's just not it's just not. It's just
29:42
not what you want to see as a my I mean, Miami's taken some
29:45
l's from Oklahoma here recently, and I'm just gonna go ahead and say that.
29:49
You know, if anybody's connecting dots on that piece down there in South
29:52
Beach, they are not very excited. And so I mean, I love
29:59
for him. You absolutely flip. If we hear that, you guys will
30:03
find it out here first. And so we you know, this is a
30:07
this is a kid though that oh you had did they did what they were
30:10
supposed to do this weekend. Yeah, and we did our homework with him
30:15
or whatnot. When you see him as far as size wise six, I
30:18
saw him somewhere like six to two, about two and a quarter so big
30:22
linebacker, big linebacker originally someone mentioned in the comics is originally from Florida.
30:30
Simphy Green said, send him to Morgantown. That's funny. I love it.
30:33
I'm totally with that, my man. If you know, if we
30:37
do get tired of him, we'll send him there. Both think we will
30:38
get tired. But yeah, no, I mean consensus composite four star,
30:44
top two hundred player in the country. I talked about him in a video
30:48
on the Sooner or Later Sports channel. He he likes to hit people,
30:53
right, kind of like you know, you're excitement around the Criminson missile.
30:57
He likes to hit people and that fits right in them of what Brent Vinnables
31:03
and staff is doing. So yeah, if we can get a hold of
31:07
him, done deal. But that picture is dope. I love this and
31:12
I and I tweeted it. He said he has an a NonStop motor or
31:18
what however he words it on there, does that not sound exactly like the
31:21
guy that Brent Vinnables and Zach Ally want? Yes, I mean, yes,
31:26
is the answer to that question. It is the exactly. It's a
31:29
nose for the football you you play. And you know what, it's great
31:33
because he is a linebacker and you know it's not converting a you know,
31:37
a high school quarterback athlete to a linebacker. I mean, he knows how
31:41
to play this game. And so I got to think that if we do
31:44
flip him, that is a conversation that Ali and Venables are having with him
31:48
and helping him and working with him this whole in season, this whole season
31:52
and getting him prepared. They're going to start that coaching pretty quickly. And
31:56
I mean, I just love to sit in with a guy like Lewis Carter,
32:00
Elijah Mendez Mendez and get in there and I'd like to be a fly
32:04
on the wall for a film session with like him, Venables and Ali just
32:07
watching linebacker stuff. I mean that would just be an absolute I mean joy,
32:14
No, I agree, And then of course you had the visit.
32:15
If we're going to continue the linebacker conversation, you got this guy, right,
32:21
here, the California kid. I'm a post up here. Give me
32:25
a second if I can get my computer to act right. But you got
32:30
Michael ian Ucher, that's his name, ian Ucherer, linebacker. He's the
32:36
one from California. That was his boy asked him to pull up right.
32:44
He was actually invited by well, I think j and O'Neill was there while
32:47
because he was doing his visit while jan O'Dell was in town. And this
32:52
dude rumor has he he enjoyed his time here at Oklahoma. And so since
32:59
that's the case, that's another linebacker option we have. I do like him.
33:05
I like his game. I'm still big on Melndez because if you think
33:09
about it, linebacker wise, we probably won't take two in his class.
33:13
Right, you're your Your athlete is Marcus James six three two twenty. He's
33:23
legitimate two in size. Carl Albert. That's one linebacker, and now we
33:27
got to figure out who the second one. Now, I would like to
33:30
have two. I wouldn't complain about having two more, but I believe it's
33:34
probably gonna be Marcus James with hopefully one of these two at linebacker. What
33:39
you thinking, Coop? Yeah, I don't. I mean, just with
33:44
the numbers that you're looking at, I mean, you gotta think that there's
33:49
gonna be one. I gotta think that there's just one spot left. And
33:52
I'm not gonna cry on either of those two guys. And you know,
33:57
obviously with Reggie Powers on the team is a big dude, and he says,
34:01
Melndez is a big dude, so right, I'll take I'll take stuff
34:07
straight from the players every day of the week. And he is committing July
34:12
first, Melndez is and I'm not know about not sure about Mark, but
34:15
Melndez definitely is, so yeah, I don't know, but he's he's nice,
34:21
he's he's pre he Neutier is a pre nice sized dude as well.
34:25
And so I'm actually curious which one Oklahoma truly prefers who can who they can
34:31
land because I'm here with with with Mark, the SMU is really winning a
34:37
lot of that battle. But he comes in. I mean, he's a
34:40
nice size as well. Six two two fifteen out of a Narbonne, Harbor
34:46
City, California, same school as I mentioned by Jay O'Neill. So they're
34:51
teammates. And I mean, of course, as we said, he wants
34:55
to stack talent with them, so he's seen them play. He believes he's
34:59
good and and Oklahoma does too, because we gave my offer and immediately scheduled
35:02
his ov to get him in town to try to have this conversation. So
35:07
I like Mark, I do. I like Mark a lot, leaning more
35:10
me Lindez. We can steal him. But either one of the two,
35:14
I know this staff. I'll make him good. Yeah it's again. I
35:20
think that at six and one half a dozen the other. I would love
35:22
either of these two guys. I've got a video on Mark that maybe maybe
35:28
when you're not dropped here earlier in the week, just a little film breakdown,
35:30
a little quick one of him. And I mean he is a guy
35:35
who again seeks out contact. He is nimble on his feet, He runs
35:39
around and when he comes he comes with some with some thumb at sosolutely all
35:45
right, O line. We had a visitor, so I did a video
35:49
I recorded earlier, edited, but I didn't publish it. I forgot and
35:53
went looked stile. She didn't pulish it. I probably need to go and
35:55
publish it. Went published it. It has some information in there that was
36:00
not as accurate. So scoops had put out their document, their the graphic
36:05
about who was also to visit this weekend. Right, you have Mark on
36:07
there, you had Melndez, he had all the big offensive linemen, but
36:10
one was on there that did not make which was Ty Heywood. It appears
36:15
that Ty is rescheduling his visit for this week instead of over the weekend because
36:22
of a family emergency and supposedly, I think Parker mentioned that it's a legitimate
36:29
one when when someone talked about it, and so he's expected to be here
36:34
within the next you know, the next few days. I think maybe around
36:38
the nineteenth or something like that. So it's what the sixteen is a finably
36:42
nineteenth, it's when the camps and stuff. But we didn't see this guy,
36:45
the one that y'all won't Michael Fasussi, big time offensive lineman that is
36:52
yeah. And he's taking a picture with the ub eaten boat calling him the
36:55
goat, which you know, gets everybody excited. I'm ready to see what
37:00
all of the actual articles and stuff say about him, because everybody's excited about
37:07
him and hopes that there's a good chance that we can we can land him.
37:10
He's a huge human being as well, right, which I love this
37:15
picture. This one made me smile. Coop, how do you feel?
37:16
What do you think? What do you think about for Susie who's right there
37:20
knocking on five star plus status. I mean, Fasusie is a guy that
37:24
if you, if you do a lot of uh listening to podcasts across listen
37:30
to the guys who are doing breakdowns. I mean, this is the guy
37:32
who could step in day one whatever program he goes to and be a starter,
37:37
a major contributor of rotation in. I mean, this is this is
37:42
He's been to Oklahoma dozens of times, he knows everything about and he is
37:46
getting his pool from Texas, He's getting pooled from elsewhere. And you know
37:52
we've always said that shout out to our boy PG. Uh. He you
37:55
know, he speaks to a lot of these guys and pretty consistantly and uh
38:00
you know PG at times has had smiles on his face, and that time
38:05
has had very very you know, very straight, you know, neutral face.
38:09
You know when he's talking to us and he's smiling right now. So
38:13
you know, if you if you land for Sussi, this is one that
38:17
that makes you very very very confident you match him with with boj who's already
38:22
on and you know he's still in on several other guys, and we are
38:28
a we are a few offensive linemen. I expect offensive linemen to continue to
38:34
drop and commit, you know, between here and the signing day. Let's
38:40
see how many we take. I think that we're going to have a few
38:44
offensive linemen in this class. Yeah, no, that's fair. And I
38:49
know that Texas is a big player in his recruitment. He is the one
38:52
guy that you know, Texas really wants. But of course you see the
38:57
numbers here on them size wise five star. Only one that done have a
39:00
five star right now is on three, but he's number thirty two, So
39:05
technically in their metrics he is a five star. But I think by the
39:07
time the end of the cycle, he's a five star plus top you know,
39:10
fifteen player in the country. I know Texas leads with him in Louisville,
39:15
but rumor has it he likes Oklahoma as well, and so if he
39:22
likes Oklahoma the way that we think he likes Oklahoma, yeah, sign yet
39:28
we need him, Jay, this is not going to be one that the
39:32
decision. I don't think Nil will be the finality for this. I think
39:36
Nil packages are going to be pretty good one way or the other. I
39:40
don't think Ksusi is a guy who is just going to be like I like
39:44
Texas, like Oklahoma absolutely equally, and I'm gonna choose this one because of
39:47
Nil. I don't think that's the case. I think I think he continues.
39:51
He's been here several times and I'm pretty sure that when I mean,
39:58
I'm pretty sure this is Sorry. I was thrown off by the dogs too,
40:01
Sorry about that. Yeah, they were losing their minds just now.
40:02
I don't know why they were there. They fight for they knew dog do
40:10
they're lett him out, shouting out Susie's I like that. Well we'll go
40:15
with that because that's definitely not what happened. But yeah, but no,
40:22
no, right, I hope Oklahoma does what they can to like fight for
40:29
this one. I've heard that. I've heard from a few people. I've
40:31
seen a few people talk about this on socials. Then Oklahoma wants to make
40:37
a big splash on the offensive line, and he is that guy. He's
40:43
one of those right him, Lamont Rodgers, Ty hey Wood. They really
40:46
want to make a splash. So if we do what we need to.
40:52
There's a chance, right, So what y'all think. I think we got
40:58
a good chance of laying hands on one of these big time offensive linemen.
41:01
So you had Fasussie pulling up our boy. Emmett Jones was doing what he
41:08
does best. He had this young man in town, Cortez Mills, kind
41:14
of shocked me. Wide receiver consensus by the four star top roughly one hundred
41:19
player in the country. He's right there and he can play. I wouldn't
41:23
look at some of his feeling like, oh he's a playmaker, especially at
41:27
his height, like I actually think that he's under height on this one.
41:30
I think he's closer to six one sixty two. But he can ball.
41:37
He's good. He had him and he also had Marcus Harris, so you
41:39
had two wire receivers that came out. I know where Quincy Porter is supposed
41:43
to come next week. He committed to Ohio State a couple of days ago,
41:49
So the big question is being okay, does he still make the trip.
41:52
I think he probably still makes the visit because that's one of the schools
41:54
where kids committing and they go visit elsewhere. Still, but hardline is just
41:59
that good that there's no concern for them. You know, it's one of
42:01
those should I be worried? Nah, because uh yeah, our guy is
42:08
Brian Hartline. So Emma Jones was working wide receivers and since and we're probably
42:14
gonna take one or two. What you think Emma Jones is just that guy.
42:22
I mean he gets the conversation. Not every single wide receiver who's going
42:27
to show up in Oklahoma. It's going to be a commitment. But I
42:30
think that there's there's a lot to be said about who he. I mean
42:34
again, when you're just saying Cortez Mills, like, I mean he that
42:37
wasn't That wasn't something that like Cortes Mills has been a guy that's been playing
42:42
this for a long time. Emm it just continues to do work. And
42:45
we knew that with the wide receiver class this year, we were going to
42:47
be looking at, you know, a couple of guys and I would just
42:52
I just continue to say, I mean, the guy needs a raise.
42:54
He I mean, Heartline has the belt right now for you know, top
43:00
cruiterer. But Emma Jones had a couple more a couple more years where he's
43:07
putting together these wide receiver classes like this. I mean, he's gonna be
43:09
He's going to be in the ring with Heartline as that top guy. And
43:13
then you know, if Hartline ever takes an offensive coordinator position, you know
43:16
that that that makes it a little bit more difficult. But I mean,
43:20
Cortes Mills is a guy who, I mean kind of has somewhere between Sterling
43:23
Shepherd and Hollywood Brown. I thought this also, mighty put that in there.
43:27
I mean, he's bigger than Hollywood. He's about the size of Sterling
43:30
and and you know, the guy just signed another contract in the NFL.
43:34
I mean, he has had a lot of injuries. But when you are
43:37
a great dude and you are a good football player and a great teammate,
43:40
people are going to continue to go after you and have you come in and
43:44
again, more and more and more just quality guys coming. And then again
43:49
if you throw in success in the SEC there's still to a lot of these
43:53
kids and a lot of people outside of Oklahoma, there's still a lot of
43:57
people who are waiting to see so you know, wait wait until the winning
44:01
starts. On top of the continued stacking of just absolute guys and competitive depth
44:09
at every single position, lemon. You cannot take a drink, You're cut
44:14
off. So so vodkaic commercial that does the take a water break, I'll
44:20
take Colin a water break, Colin a water break, all right. So
44:25
this just happened. We had a commitment for twenty twenty four. Sounds like
44:32
it was a PWO. Now I saw this dude. Oh man, it's
44:38
been about a week. We saw this Devin O'Neil, Devin Owen, I'm
44:47
sorry, Devin Owen out on our gal Texas twenty twenty four safety he Safety
44:58
six and we saw him and his I think it's an Instagram and his Twitter
45:06
account or ex what is gonna call it expert was on there and he committed.
45:14
He shown in there in his in his description that he was a we'll
45:17
go up here dB at o U, which was interesting because we was trying
45:23
to figure out who his dude is, right I who is that? Well,
45:29
it appears he got a offer in June and then June twelfth, and
45:37
then a few days later he went ahead and just straight committed. So the
45:39
graphic drop Colin Kennedy. He's actually put out an article on it. Make
45:44
sure y'all check that out. But I went to go find of course his
45:47
film, y'all know me, you have to go look at who gonna gonna
45:52
were gonna play a little film while we talk about him, and I was
45:54
kind of wondering, hmmm, who this dude is, because I right,
46:01
I heard of him before, right, And it appears that uh, he'd
46:09
play so he played safety, hronto safety and outside linebackers. So it sounds
46:15
like a quote unquote Chetao. And I don't know, I don't think he's
46:22
he's a p WO. But it's not bad. You're stacking talent that's big
46:27
and fast enough to cause problems. Coop, had you heard anything about this
46:30
dude? I mean, like you said, uh, there was some traffic
46:36
and then it just disappeared and then now here he is this guy all right,
46:39
when you're when you when you bring p W. I was in like
46:42
this guy this is nothing, but you know, great depth, A motor
46:46
guy, a guy who is going to go out and it does not matter
46:50
when he's on the practice field. He is going to continue to be one
46:53
of those people who just is I mean, look, look look at Boganowski,
46:58
Like I that's kind of what you see here is just a guy who
47:00
just wants to go out and do some work. And so yeah, these
47:05
guys, these are absolute dudes. And another another Brandon Hall, just go
47:08
ahead and bring in in, uh, you know, just a safety role
47:12
and uh throw him in with a bunch of other dudes. It's you can't
47:15
you can't help it. I mean, it's it's when you've got such quality
47:19
kids just coming in over and over and over again. And plus uh you
47:22
know, you got uh you know, Bogo and Powers already on deck.
47:27
They are gonna, you know, they're gonna take in this guy and they're
47:29
gonna work with him too. And so you know, you're you're, you're,
47:32
you're nice. And he's throwing out highlights with the caveat that Hey he's
47:36
got an ankle spring and he just took it to th house. No right,
47:44
and so yeah, so this is the safety is this is the safety
47:46
to just commit it. And I just no clue. He's just he's just
47:51
out of nowhere. Right, we beget these random commitments with you know,
47:54
I'm not complaining about right, if he can play, if they feel like
47:58
that he can add value to a little bit of not any competitive depth,
48:00
but you know, good guys for like you know, practice and all of
48:05
that. You gotta have good bodies in order to be successful, especially in
48:07
the SEC, because that's the one thing that happens at the SEC is you
48:12
lose bodies fast. But you need guys that you could train against and all
48:14
of that. Yeah, I did not see that coming. But hey,
48:20
welcome to the foe. Guys, what was the fall? We appreciate your
48:25
service. We want you here, welme in a nation. So what I'm
48:30
Jason, see you in here Hall of Fame. Emmy Jones of course he's
48:37
Yeah, Emmy Jones is trying to get himself another race, and he's gonna
48:42
have me advocating like crazy for him once again, just because of that.
48:47
And then of course Marcus Harris, he's another wide receiver that we're looking at.
48:52
I just pull him up, actually pull him up now, Coop,
48:55
do we need to go ahead and pay hmm Jones more money? And Timmy,
49:00
I'll pass away the collection plate. Everybody toss it in there. And
49:06
but yeah, also, yeah, if you guys see, if you guys
49:07
see any of the shirts, the bread vitibles and stuff like that, you
49:10
know, hit up Jay, hit up myself. Let us know, you
49:13
know, we've got some more stuff. Do we have the the shirts available
49:17
for purchase? Jane. We had a couple of people saying, yeah,
49:21
yeah, yeah, it's it's on the it's in the description below. Just
49:25
go to the merch shop buy them up. Yeah, we've always got the
49:30
shirts available. They're on a print on demand, so they're available. Got
49:34
some more designs coming soon to add for the football season, face some retro
49:37
fields or whatnot. But yeah, shirts there ready for you all. Let
49:42
me get Marcus Harris's film up at a matter day. He is from California,
49:52
another you know, California, California wide receiver, feels that we have
49:55
this thing for these Cali kids. And he's actually really good too, So
50:01
let me go ahead and add that for y'all's enjoyment. I mean, do
50:07
you think that while you're pulling that up, do you think that Lincoln Riley
50:13
sees these types of things, like my disdain for Lincoln Riley, like he's
50:17
gotten what he's deserved. Everybody thought he was going to be off to the
50:21
NFL. That luster has disappeared, dissipated quite a bit. And yeah,
50:25
I mean, I just got to think that he sees all these Cali guys
50:29
going back out there, and all the garbage that he dropped about recruiting Mecca
50:32
and all that junk. I mean, it just continues to make me laugh
50:36
just because it's I mean, when you have a school with tradition, you're
50:40
going to draw and then when you have a program set up like this,
50:45
it's just it's just these guys want to come out here. I mean,
50:49
the pipeline doesn't seem to be stopping Florida and Calli kids. They don't mind
50:52
coming to Oklahoma now, they really don't. And it seems to be something
50:57
that we're trying. And the good thing is is we recruit not only Okay
51:00
Prep, but we we do the nationwide piece. Of course, Texas is
51:04
one of our biggest hot beds because you know, we own the northern part
51:06
of it. But we're we're going for the Florida's right. Like as we
51:10
all know, Breventables loves his Florida linebackers. You know, he inherited Stutsman,
51:15
but he brought in you know, Lewis Carters of the world. He
51:16
loves players, especially for Tampa Catholic, Right, that's the school that he
51:21
talks. He praises the most epl came from there, right him and Lose
51:24
Carter You they they're heavy in that area. Same thing with California. Uh.
51:31
We we have a tendency of stats. Some guys up from there,
51:34
you know, lone Star High School. That's when Marvin Uh, that's where
51:37
MEM's came from. And as well as now writer mix. We like,
51:42
that's what we like to do. We like to like to recruit nationwide.
51:45
That's very big in the philosophy of this staff. It's say, if we're
51:52
gonna win national championships, we can't just do it here. But looking at
51:53
him, Marcus Man five to eleven, roughly six feet, I think he's
52:00
one thing to show me. One of his deals showed he's about six feet.
52:02
We'll figure out whatever his combine actual height it is. But he's a
52:07
good route runner, gets open, can jump, finds high point the ball
52:10
pulls it in. I see why Emma Jones was going after him because you
52:15
had him on the list. You have I think many choice as well as
52:17
Andrew marsh coming next week. Like Emmett's on a role in pulling in elite
52:24
wide receiver play if we can get if we how many wid receivers can you
52:32
have. It makes me think about like Ohio State and what they're doing and
52:35
all these wide receivers, Like how many great wide receivers can you have?
52:37
Right? At certain point we gotta figure out something, right, Well,
52:42
I mean theoes Trajan Bridges. You can get all the stars you want,
52:49
and between injuries and just stuff that doesn't happen, I mean you you always
52:54
want to take it. And yeah, I mean because you just got to
52:58
think. I mean, there's going to be Look at Jamison Williams. Jamison
53:00
Williams leaves Ohio State because he is behind I mean first round draft picks galore
53:07
right, and so he goes to Alabama and he shows out and he becomes
53:10
who he is. Now, if you can quit the gambling and everything that,
53:14
you know, it's a different story. But but you you want to
53:17
take these guys, if these guys want to come here, you want to
53:20
take the people who who if they want to be here, let's let's let's
53:22
oblige. Let's let's bring him in and let's go. Because you know,
53:27
this is a quarterback driven league. When you have the quarterbacks in the fold
53:30
that we already have and the ones coming down the bike guys are going to
53:36
flock to it. They're going to go and especially when you know, if
53:38
if Marcus Harris pulls up and he's like, yeah, let me see what
53:42
this is about, and he sees O'Neill out there dropping bombs, he sees
53:45
the Sperry family there, he sees Jackson Arnold, he sees Hawkins. He
53:50
talks to these players, and you're just like, I mean, where where's
53:53
the weakness at quarterback? At that point, you just have like stud after
53:59
stud after stud. So let's let it roll and just bring in the guys.
54:02
And if you I personally believe this, I'm want to say something semi
54:07
controversial because when we got a specific defensive back and he chose US over Alabama.
54:19
This is a few years ago. This guy transferred out and let latromacutchem,
54:24
I didn't believe it. I didn't believe it. And I thought I've
54:27
always thought, man, did he not go to Alabama because he kind of
54:30
knew and so he came here. And I thought that that's how we got
54:35
some of the bigger in defensive recruits. Was we got guys who just I
54:40
don't think that they really wanted to step up and that's the previous regime.
54:45
Now people want to come and play for Venables. They want to play for
54:49
Baits, they want to play for Chavis, they want to play for Ali,
54:51
they want to play for Coach Hall, they want to play for Vallai.
54:54
They want to play and they know that this is no longer just an
54:59
absolute you with best on defense. You are a dude, and you are
55:02
You've got to be a guy to come on this defense and actually show up
55:07
and be a player. So now these guys that are committing wide receiver,
55:12
safeties, defensive backs, linebackers, defensive lineman. Here soon these guys want
55:16
to come and they know what's in front of them and they're ready to compete.
55:20
And that's where you want to be as a program. Yeah, you
55:22
gotta competition and iron shoppers, iron all the cliches you got behind that that's
55:29
critical, right, That's critical for success in the SEC as we all know
55:34
of it. Right, So all right, we're gonna wrap this up.
55:37
Last thing, I was watching Oklahoma Breakdown. I think they had an interview
55:39
today with Lane Johnson. Everybody's talking about it. That will be my listening
55:43
for tomorrow at the gym tomorrow morning. If he says anything controversial, of
55:47
course I will talk about it. But they did want Andy Staples at on
55:53
three. He has his own show, the Andy Staples Show. He does
55:57
every like every morning at like eight o'clock. He's and something like that.
56:00
Anyway, and Coop ain't watched it. If you all haven't watched it yet,
56:07
not gonna be spoiling too much. I want you to go watch it.
56:08
I'll make sure to put in the description below. But I put out
56:10
a video earlier talking about one of the experts kind of giving an idea of
56:15
what they thought about, you know, Oklahoma and the SEC and all of
56:17
that. And there was two things that jumped out to me that Andy spoke
56:21
about. There's a long list of things he talked about in there about Oklahoma
56:24
and Texas is really good. But two things. One talked about Jackson Arnold,
56:29
and he said, of course, you know, with Jackson Arnold,
56:30
you only got one game of tape, but you saw good things out of
56:34
him there. And you also see him being a true freshman, which to
56:37
me makes me feel good, right. I like that people recognize that,
56:40
oh, he made a true freshman mistake, meaning that they recognized that he
56:45
shouldn't do that same thing as a sophomore, So that kind of gives him
56:47
a little bit of grace. But you saw really good things that could turn,
56:52
you know, look really good long term for Oklahoma. But what he
56:55
said, he said one thing that jumped out to me, Coop, I
56:58
don't want to get your thoughts on this. He said that just about every
57:01
coach he talked to, Jackson Arnold was the quarterback they wanted out of that
57:05
class. And that class was a good class. Right, you had number
57:08
one, hat Arch Manning or whatnot. Everybody has their opinions on him.
57:12
He had Arch, you had Nelson, You had Dante Moore, you had
57:16
Nico Yama Liava, you had Dayden Rashata in that class, right, Elia
57:23
Holdenstein Over there at Alabama, you had a list quarterbacks in that class,
57:29
and a lot of them all said they wanted Jackson Arnold. That jumped out
57:34
to me because it kind of confirms what we've all been talking about about our
57:38
confidence and Brinvivnable's confidence about him going forward. Other teams want this is the
57:45
quarterback. The other teams want it. They felt like he's probably the one
57:47
with the most likely the highest floor as in. He's gonna be successful regardless.
57:52
The question is is how successful and how great will he be? He's
57:57
gonna be good no matter what, at least at the collegiate level. Can
58:00
he be pro level to where he leads Oklahoma to the promised lane? How
58:07
excited did you give an ahirt that coup Staples knows what he's talking about?
58:12
Right? He really does actually like Andy Stables now and I and again,
58:19
Andy Staples is looking at stuff from a national perspective, right, so you
58:22
feel still all the guys that we've always seen who put out the Lindy's magazines,
58:29
none of those guys dig dig dig dig dig dig dig on every aspect.
58:37
So I don't necessarily think I mean, obviously Texas is going to be
58:39
heading into the you know, SEC a little bit more assurance on the offensive
58:45
line, but I don't think they touch our defensive line. So I mean
58:50
it's a split right there. You can't lose I mean, you're your top
58:52
two, you know, producing guys who helped you be what you haven't been
58:58
in god knows how long, and so you can't lose those guys and all
59:01
of a sudden be like, oh we're gonna roll two more guys in here,
59:04
and they're just gonna be fine. So but Staples, he sees these
59:08
things. He sees the program. He's been around, a lot of these
59:12
guys are starting to come around, Paul Feinbaum. They're talking, they're seeing
59:15
the setup. Now, you know what My coach, my baseball coach Kansas,
59:22
was from Missouri and he always said, you know what, from the
59:23
show me state, So you can't tell me, You're gonna have to show
59:27
me. And so it is time to show me. It is going to
59:30
be time for oh, you to show the rest of the people so they
59:34
can start believing how we believe that being said, I mean, you get
59:39
a national perspective from a guy like that, and he says the things that
59:44
he did, you feel pretty good that it's not just crimson colored glasses that
59:49
are, you know, tainting our vision. Yep. Agree. And another
59:55
thing that that Andy jumped into was about ou in Texas going into the SEC
1:00:00
Right, of course, it's like everybody else, everybody's giving the Texas hype
1:00:04
and his reasoning. I actually when he said it, I was like,
1:00:09
there's a little contradiction here, but I get what you're trying to say,
1:00:13
right, he pointed out, you know, are refresh on the trenches in
1:00:19
comparison to Texas. You know, Texas bringing back all the offensive linemen.
1:00:22
I get it, they're protecting their quarterback. That's actually a very good thing
1:00:24
to have moving into no matter where you're at. And the way that they
1:00:28
were able to push around Alabama when they played them, They're like, Okay,
1:00:30
that's kind of what's helping them is those people are returning even though Oklahoma
1:00:35
did push them around, right, he said, even though y'all Oka woman
1:00:38
did push them around. That's why you see a lot of that hype with
1:00:43
it there. Returning to quarterback who's been there now on his third year,
1:00:45
and an offensive line with with a potential first round draft pick in banks in
1:00:51
which Oklahoma last year had Tyler Goeid in first round, right, and you
1:00:54
had Walter Rowski drafted later. He kind of talked through that. But the
1:00:58
thing that jumped out to me too about the comments around Olahoma. He was
1:01:01
like, this is one thing to remember when it comes to Oklahoma is that
1:01:07
no matter where Oklahoma goes, they figure out ways to end up at the
1:01:10
top. You know, uh, you know, the swack the Big Eight
1:01:20
Big twelve right whatever the current conference, current initu iteration of it is right
1:01:27
now and whatnot. But no matter what, Oklahoma's always found a way to
1:01:30
end up at the top. And he's like, so, I'm not worried
1:01:32
about Oklahoma. There may be some bumps in the road, but I have
1:01:36
no concern there because Oklahoma's always found a way. You can tell that leadership
1:01:42
there from Jokistick Leon and everyone around that understand what needs to be done to
1:01:46
be successful no matter where you're at. And then bringing in a coach like
1:01:50
Venables, of course, who has won a national championship against SEC schools from
1:01:53
a school that was not in the SEC, basically said yeah, Okhoma's gonna
1:02:00
figure it out. May take a year. But at the same time he
1:02:05
was bagging on Vegas's spread number. He's just like, yeah, that's an
1:02:08
absurd number. I don't even understand where that came from, just because of
1:02:14
history has proven it. Oklahoma's always figured it out. And so I thought
1:02:16
that was very intriguing, and I thought that was probably the most thoughtful way
1:02:21
of explaining the Texas love and the Oklahoma peace. And he's just like,
1:02:23
yeah, y'all gotta figure out your offensive line, which I agree, we
1:02:28
just gotta prove it. I think it's figured out, but we just have
1:02:30
to prove it. And I agree that the proof is more so in the
1:02:35
putting. You gotta kind of show that you got it. You can't.
1:02:37
You can't just rely off of hearsay all the time. Sometimes you go go
1:02:40
on the field and do it. And we did that. Like with the
1:02:43
wide receiver room, we were concerned about the wide receiver room and then boom,
1:02:46
they showed out and you're like, oh, okay, no, So
1:02:49
the new coach that came in, we don't need to be concerned anymore.
1:02:52
The new coach knows what he's doing. He did a really good job of
1:02:53
making things happen. Now he just gotta let old Faithful the beaten Bow do
1:02:58
what he does best and get us an elite offensive line next season, and
1:03:02
hopefully it's someone that looks like they're going to get drafted in the first round.
1:03:06
If we do that, everyone's going to shut up about concerns with Oklahoma.
1:03:12
And we also were nervous about the wide receiver with the reports coming through
1:03:16
that a certain slot guy was the one that was showing out and he didn't
1:03:22
show up, So you weren't even excited about the guys who ended up producing
1:03:29
with arel Antony looking like a number one guy now fully fully believe that andrel
1:03:34
Antony is is guys. I will say this, if you got some extra
1:03:37
coins around, by the Jaden Gibson stock, Like I just continue to say,
1:03:44
by the Jaden Gibson stock. I mean, when we were down on
1:03:45
the field after the spring game, that guy, he just had an aura
1:03:50
about him, like he was like he knows that it's coming. It wasn't
1:03:52
cocky, it wasn't flashy. I mean he was just confident. And we
1:03:58
already know who Anderson is, Burks, we know what we have. You
1:04:01
know, a lot of excitement with him, and so yeah, I mean
1:04:05
you continue with each one of these receivers, they blew up. This coaching
1:04:13
staff is great. We're still great. I mean we still have three of
1:04:16
our starters on offensive line. You feel really really good about it. It's
1:04:20
how does a gel and how does how do you? How do you fill
1:04:24
that in? I still maintain our off first line offensive line is going to
1:04:28
be really really good. We just walk. We walk a thin line with
1:04:32
injuries and unless they happen short term into the year because you start getting Effett
1:04:39
back, you know, you get Gary Hatchett, you know, in full
1:04:43
and full health, you get epl and all the newvies in with a with
1:04:47
some time underneath their belts, and hopefully they're going to have some time early.
1:04:50
So I think it's overblown. Jason said it in here. You know,
1:04:55
the only thing I really just have no damn clue about is the kicker.
1:04:58
And that's really the only thing. And you know what, I'm not
1:05:00
gonna waste time on our podcast talking about the kicker at yet. You know,
1:05:03
I will handle that. They got a job to do, go out
1:05:05
there and kick the dad gun ball. You got a special teams coach,
1:05:09
and you've got a good competition, so you just don't know right now.
1:05:12
So I think that if if you think about the offensive line, you just
1:05:16
got to trust in a dude who is really good at coaching and great pieces
1:05:21
that are already there. Yep. And that's where I'm at. That's where
1:05:26
I why I don't have the same concern as most when it comes to that,
1:05:29
because he's proven to us enough times that yeah, yeah, if he
1:05:38
gures itself out right, and I totally get the thought process around the overblown
1:05:43
piece, but we would be considered overblown too if we return, you know,
1:05:46
five offensive linemen from last season, right, we would be if Geiden
1:05:49
came back, right, and you know we had four more offensive linemen starting
1:05:58
that. If basically this line here and it had already been here a year,
1:06:02
our height would have beenough. Just up as hot. It makes sense,
1:06:05
there's logic behind it, and it's all because continuity really helps when it
1:06:11
comes off to the line. Now, execution is gonna be the question.
1:06:14
And I hope that they continue to do not to do max protect against us
1:06:16
and we let came Willard run through all of them because I think he really
1:06:21
is gonna He's gonna be nasty on the line him and dominate with Dejon and
1:06:27
you bring the young pup. Look, man, I'm already salivating. All
1:06:30
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1:06:46
words, just hang in. I mean this is the beginning of official businesses.
1:06:53
I mean, like, what were two weeks in and all this excitement.
1:06:57
You know, you look back at the twenty five class and you're like,
1:07:00
oh, you know this is gonna be a good one. We talked
1:07:00
about the offensive line. You see these pieces come through. Now the twenty
1:07:04
six class is going to start filling out. You've got a commitment of the
1:07:08
twenty seven class. I mean, there's not a lot that you can just
1:07:11
absolutely just be down in the dumps about. So uh yeah, I say,
1:07:15
don't don't get too all cut up in in hype and everything like that.
1:07:17
Sit back, relaxed. The off season is the off season. Guys
1:07:20
got to do it on the field. So so just uh just put the
1:07:25
smile on. And I mean here in the next couple of weeks, we're
1:07:27
gonna have some fireworks. Yes we are so alright, and figuratively literally and
1:07:32
figuredly we will catch all of y'all on the other side. I'll be easy pigs.