Answer: OU has few players that are actually leaving OU this season. OU has a lot of young players this season that are coming back.

Someone crack a window in here...it's getting stale.

Picker, just because its a "Mock Draft Board" does not make it a reality. Report something like this after the draft....not before.

A seemingly simple question: OU has a top five or top ten high school recruiting class every year.

Yet it has a pretty lousy pro draft record.

Could the cause be coaching?

Norsemustang makes a good point. You can't be "young" every year; Sooner fans are beginning to sound the way the OSU Aggie fans used to sound with their "wait 'till next year" mantra. The last time Oklahoma State beat the Sooners by anything like the 34-point buggy-whipping they dished out last November was on November 24, 1945 when they won 47-0. That game resulted in the Sooner coach, Dewey "Snorter" Luster getting a pink slip and it began the Jim Tatum - Bud Wilkinson era. In short, Oklahoma doesn't lose to Oklahoma State like that without serious consequences. Where are those consequences today? The sports press is silent and the relatively literate segment of the OU fan base remains relatively unheard; only the money guys...the behind-the-scenes donors, are forcing some changes. Martinez is gone (never should have been hired), Venables is finally gone, and Stoops brought his little brother home for moral support. And what of those "blue chippers" that are hitting I-35 south? Those within the program proclaim that "Bobby is just cleaning house of the guys who didn't want to be there; he's ridding the program of those with "Character issues", while others might ask why these character issues weren't weeded out before matriculation. Stoops' inability to win with quality recruiting classes is beginning to mirror that of Mack Brown, who also hauls in the great athletes year after year without recompense on the scoreboard. Bob Stoops once commented "If I can't win a national championship with guys like Peterson and Bradford on the roster I must not be a very good coach." Hmmm...maybe he had a point.

Sorry Pick, there are only a few sources to rank recruiting classes, ESPN is one of those. Next time do your own homework and pick whichever rating system you'd like. You'll find, whichever rating service you use, there is nothing factual in your statements.

Nice job deflecting though....keep up the good work and you might end up at ESPN someday!

Where are the pro all stars from OU?

It has always been thus. Our wishbone quarterbacks were either shunned or picked in mid-rounds and converted to defensive backs...our best running backs have been "Archie Manninged" to mediocre teams and wasted (or injured)...bottom line...our best coaches have always produced the best results from the fine talent at hand in order to perform on the platform at hand...generally speaking, college football; specifically speaking, the Big 8/12/?.

Norse hit the nail squarely on the head. The coaching in Norman is a trouble spot. Guys who once played for Proctor in the secondary have been apoplectic for years while watching the Sooners play. The players are perpetually out of position, the wrong players are on the field (how many times have we seen linebackers trying to cover wideouts?), and when the play ends, our defenders get up slowly and amble back to the LOS. No hustle. It'll be interesting to see whether Stoops lite will have any positive effect on the field. If what most certainly will happen happens--i.e. if our secondary continues to look like N. Tx St -- Stoops has any number of built in, tried-and-true excuses to fall back on (e.g. injuries...youth...lack of depth...). We'll see...