Sooners in reach of highest-ranked recruiting class in recent memory

At the top of May, Oklahoma soccer recruiting commitments for the class of 2023 stood at three and was ranked forty first in the nation by the faculty soccer recruiting employees at 247Sports.

The Sooners added 5 extra in the month of June, and since July 1, Oklahoma has been on a recruiting roll, touchdown 12 verbal commitments to develop the class measurement to twenty. The newest 247Sports class rankings have Oklahoma occupying the No, 6 place and with a number of elite, uncommitted prospects believed to be leaning the Sooners’ method.

Some school soccer recruiting consultants imagine Oklahoma shouldn’t be executed climbing up the rankings, and will a number of elite prospects that they’re focusing on in the end land in the Sooners’ camp, a top-five rating is definitely in vary. The final time OU produced a top-five recruiting class was in 2010. In 2003, Rivals ranked the Sooners the third finest class in the nation.

Lincoln Riley’s final three recruiting lessons earlier than leaping ship at OU for USC ranked tenth, thirteenth and sixth, respectively.

While there have been some considerations earlier in the spring concerning the Sooners potential to draw and get commitments from high prospects as they’ve been in a position to in the recent previous, these considerations have shortly evaporated after the recruiting advances of the previous couple of months. No one actually questioned Venables potential to draw high defensive recruits, however may he additionally recruit to the Sooners’ energy offensively? That too has been answered affirmatively.

Of the 20 verbal commitments Oklahoma has in the fold as of this date, 9 are offensive gamers, eight are defensive and there are three commits rated as athletes. According to 247Sports, two of the Sooner commits are rated as 5 stars, together with QB Jackson Arnold, who was the MVP of the Elite 11 camp this yr, together with 10 four-star commitments.

Among the highest prospects Oklahoma is hopeful of incomes dedication bulletins from in the approaching months is four-star defensive again Makari Vickers, out of Tallahasse, Florida; four-star, defensive lineman Jordan Renaud, out of Tyler, Texas; four-star huge receiver Anthony Evans, from Converse, Texas; and five-star defensive finish David Hicks, from Katy, Texas, who the Sooners are in a decent battle with to land the highest defensive finish in the class.

Oklahoma is clearly trending in the appropriate method on the 2023 recruiting path, and Venables has vowed they’re removed from executed.