U40: 5 stars will be everywhere in Norman this weekend

Oklahoma Sooners Unofficial 40

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🗓️ 11 April 2018

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

The spring game is set for Saturday with plenty of festivities, but the centerpiece of this weekend won't be passes thrown or tackles made, it's going to be the never-ending arrival of five-star recruits, Rivals100 and Rivals250 visitors. It's the first official visit weekend of the year and Lincoln Riley is looking to close on some massive recruits for the 2019 class. The Sooners are putting everything they've got behind this weekend. How far could they climb up the Rivals Team Recruiting Rankings if they're able to close on a couple of five stars this weekend? Everything you want to know about the huge weekend coming up. And we talk about some spring game stuff too. The rundown follows below: OPEN - Lincoln Riley announces the key names to know will only play the first half Saturday 0:04:00 - Josh says this is the biggest recruiting weekend in 18 years. 0:07:15 - Riley bringing in the big gun former Sooners to make this weekend extra special 0:11:20 - Sooners could be banged up going into the spring game. Expect some big names to be out. 0:14:15 - OU finds itself ahead of the curve in recruiting with so many schools cancelling their spring games. 0:17:15 - Jay Hayes, a Notre Dame grad transfer is coming on an official visit this weekend. 0:22:45 - Cody Ford says he's a tackle now 0:29:45 - Some of what we expect in the spring game personnel wise 0:36:45 - We touch on the baseball team playing well 0:41:30 - Our take on the attendance Saturday 0:47:00 - The retirement of Allan Trimble at Jenks 0:53:15 - We start breaking down the recruiting visitor list for this weekend. You have 3 5-star WRs in town 0:58:10 - Sidetracked - Kansas/Adidas scandal hits. Eddie turns evil 1:04:00 - How 7-on-7 is walking the same dangerous line as what is happening in hoops right now 1:20:00 - Back to the visit list. Trejan Bridges an ACT test taking casualty? 1:21:30 - Josh not giving up on OU and Derek Green? 1:23:15 - What can come out of Isaiah Spiller coming back to Norman after decommitting? 1:25:50 - Safeties will be flooding into Norman this weekend 1:34:10 - What constitutes a successful weekend for the Sooners in recruiting? 1:37:45 - Where are the Sooners in RB recruiting 1:41:00 - Marquise Brown races the Scoop staff? Eddie still needs his ass kicked by a middle schooler Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It'd be exciting for our fans, you know, I think this is, you know, where it's not a complicated
0:04.7	scoring system for our fans that can come and follow it just like they would in a game, get some of the
0:09.1	exciting situations and competitive situations that you really want.
0:13.6	So, and I think it's adding for recruits,
0:15.9	you know, and that it's gonna help create a better atmosphere,
0:18.5	be more game-like.
0:19.9	So we're gonna do that the first half,
0:22.2	see how the first half goes see how the first half goes.
0:23.8	The first half, the game will end after the first half as far as the competitive parts.
0:29.2	And then we'll come back out and still get plenty of work done.
0:31.6	Fans will stuff, plenty of see in the second half,
0:33.2	but we're going to declare a winner and loser
0:35.4	at the end of the first half.
0:37.4	News team, assemble!
0:43.0	Assimble! It's time for the unofficial 40 from Sooner Scoop.com.
1:03.0	Featuring site publishers Carrie Murdoch and Josh McQuistion,
1:07.8	along with videographer Eddie Radosovich. It's the unofficial 40 on Souder Scoop.com.
1:17.0	All right, welcome back in. It is time for another edition of the unofficial 40.
1:24.3	I am your host, Carrie Merock, joined by my co-host as usual, Josh McQuishin and Eddie Radosovich.
1:30.3	And here is the sooner as you get ready for their spring game coming up over the weekend.
1:35.0	You just heard from Lincoln Riley to open things up and it was kind of a jarring thing if you missed it, which I think Josh did because I screwed up the audio for him
1:46.3	Here was Lincoln Riley talking about the format of the game and how it's all going to go
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