Sooners add pair of DBs
Published: 7/24/2008 12:29 PM
Last Modified: 7/24/2008 12:29 PM
Oklahoma has added a pair of Texans to its growing 2009 recruiting class -- Marshall's Darius Jones and Mesquite's Marcus Trice. That gives Bob Stoops 16 verbal commitments and bolsters a class that will undoubtedly be among the nation's top 10 when National Signing Day rolls around next February.
Still, we invite Sooner fans to proceed with caution.
Richard Cirminiello of CollegeFootballNews.com recently re-examined the top recruiting classes from 2004. At the time, OU's Rhett Bomar-Adrian Peterson crop was tabbed as the nation's seventh-best class.
Upon further review, the Sooners would be ranked No. 19.
"If not for the heroics of Peterson, arguably the best back in school history, the Sooners would have no business appearing in the top 20," Cirminiello writes. "The nation's seventh-ranked class four years ago, Oklahoma was pretty ordinary after Peterson, largely because of the dismissal of Bomar before the start of the 2006 season. It was a devastating blow for a school that felt it had its franchise quarterback for another three seasons.
"Hits: RB Adrian Peterson, S D.J. Wolfe, K Garrett Hartley, CB Marcus Walker, and T Branndon Braxton.
Misses: QB Rhett Bomar and LB Chris Patterson."
-- Guerin Emig
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Guerin Emig
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