Tyler Patmon, Josh Furman, Lenzy Pipkins and now Adrian Baker and Aaron Cochran fall under the same tricky umbrella: graduate transfers who might be coveted but can’t be pursued.
“You gotta be careful,” defensive coordinator Glenn Spencer said. “Can’t recruit ’em. Can’t scout ’em.”
As it happens, fifth-year graduate transfers don’t go through any sort of recruitment process, which means guys like Baker and Aaron Cochran, an offensive lineman from Cal, all come to Oklahoma State organically.
When Patmon was looking to come to OSU from Kansas, his dad gave Spencer a call.
“Hey, my son is looking for a place to go,” Spencer said he remembers Patmon’s dad saying.