It’s not football season yet — still a month and a half off — but it is very much recruiting season with July one of the most active months in the calendar for the Oklahoma football program in recent years for landing commitments.
Some college football recruiting analysts have ruminated that the Sooners’ impending move to the Southeastern Conference — where college football and football recruiting is considered next to godliness — could hurt Oklahoma’s traditional recruiting effort.
That thinking, in my opinion, is seriously misguided. Oklahoma football is a national brand and, if anything, the move to the SEC should help the Sooners by extending the footprint, irrespective of the talent-rich environment and highly competitive nature of recruiting within SEC country.