Riley really is a steaming pile..

Kids should have committed to the school not the coach, but with the logic you’re spitting, the opposite must hold then, if OU poaches a big name coach, that coach shouldn’t accept any recruits from whichever school gets poached, he shouldn’t leave until the season is officially over, etc etc, it’s a business, it sucks but we’ve all been poached before, hell, Sark poached your OL coach and ST coach last year, you think LSU is going to turn away any commits that want in with BK in BR? Nope, I expect if OU gets a Brent V, a few Clemson commits to follow, which is par for the course, you gonna call OU unethical if that happens too?

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Lincoln Riley should be held financially responsible for the cost of every decommitted recruit.

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I’d say clearly true for the Cali kids he recruited at OU that are now joining him.

Jesus Christ.

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Kids should have committed to the school not the coach

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It's wild how many of Oklahoma's players/recruits are only their for Riley. None of em got loyalty.

Didn't even bother waiting to see who Oklahoma hires to replace him.

A lot of people disagree with you, but I understand what you are saying....and somewhat agree.

Riley went out and purposely targeted a lot of players from California with what appears to be the intent to go to USC all along, using Oklahoma's money, efforts and time to recruit for USC.

Proving that is what happened is another story, though. They (Oklahoma) do seem to have an abnormally large group of players following the coach to his new school.

It appears as if Riley did not want to start from scratch recruiting once he got to USC. He can look at the class committed to USC now and tell the players he does not want to look elsewhere, and then bring in the players he recruited to Oklahoma to USC with him.

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How many recruits/players are USC bound from OU?

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I think 4-5 have announce so far. Some from the 2022 class and 1 or 2 from the 2023 class.

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Yikes!

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Yeah. Some 5* and 4*...RBs, QB's,....al from California.


Kobie McKenzie (2022 4* LB)
Treyaun Webb (2023 4*)
Brandon iniss (2023 5* WR)
Malachi Nelson (2023 5* QB)
Raleek Brown (2022 5* RB)
Demetrius Hunter (2022 OL 4*)
Derrick Moore (2022 4* DL)
Makai Lemon (Ath 5* 2023)

So it is more like 8 commits lost.

It’s rough up here right now, but I remain optimistic. We’ve had decomits from 2022 and 2023, we’ve got some guys in the transfer portal. However, I’m not overly concerned about the guys in the portal to this point. They are all highly rated guys, but guys that didn’t do much this year. Also, none of the portal guys seem to be heading to USC. It is my belief that there is a good chance that the new head coach will bring a few transfers with him aswell. I liked Riley and he was getting some highly recruited guys, but I also felt that the product that he was putting on the field had regressed year after year. This gives us an opportunity to get a guy in here with a focus on defense. Which IMO is what we’ll need making the move to the SEC

Teams will fire coaches whenever they want. Players will leave schools now whenever they want. I have no problem with coaches leaving when they want