Oklahoma secondary coach Kerry Cooks was thrilled to get a chance to be reunited with defensive end Grant Blankenship.
Blankenship recently transferred to Oklahoma and will have to sit out this season.
Cooks recruited Blankenship to Notre Dame when he was an assistant with the Fighting Irish and was instrumental in bringing him to Norman.
“Once everything was legal for us to communicate, we communicated,” Cooks said. “I got him in touch with our D-line coach (Calvin Thibodeaux) and DC (Mike Stoops), had him and his parents come up here and laid it all on the line for him—the vision we thought for him.