Top WR prospect cancels OSU visit
By Scott Wright
Former Oklahoma State assistant coach Trooper Taylor came in as an ace recruiter, and though he never landed the big fish from the recruiting sea, Taylor did make players who wouldn’t generally look at OSU to consider the Cowboys.
Meet Rueben Randle.
Ranked by Rivals.com as the No. 1 prospect in the nation at any position, the receiver from Bastrop, La., had scheduled a visit to Stillwater this weekend. On Monday, Taylor took a job at Auburn, and on Thursday, reports surfaced that Randle had decided not to visit OSU. Instead, he has scheduled an official visit to — you guessed it — Auburn.
Sources have confirmed the reports, so it looks like OSU will have to look elsewhere for another receiver in the 2009 class.
The top candidate in that group is Cobi Hamilton from Texarkana, Texas, who is expected to visit this month.
In coaching news, there’s nothing new regarding positions being filled, but Robert Matthews’ future continues to be a mystery. OSU’s current recruiting coordinator is a candidate for a promotion, either to an on-field position or the vacant director of operations position. But his wife and former OSU women’s golf coach, Laura Matthews, is among the candidates and has interviewed for the same position at Oregon. Laura Matthews resigned during the fall at OSU.
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Recruiting college athletes is big business. Some safeguards should be set up to prevent college coaches from visiting with other schools about new jobs until after signing day. I do wish OSU’s three coaches well in their new positions. They did gtreat jobs at O-State, but I predict that all three will wish they were at OSU next year. Good luck to Gundy in his search. A lot of college coaches would like to assist at State and get paid like we pay them. Beside, you get to live in Stillwater and wear orange.
Besides, you get live in Stillwater and wear orange? No wonder they all skip town, Osu will never be as good as Ou or Texas.
Hey jimmy, what are you doing looking at an OSU comment page? seems to me like it’s more OU paronina about the up and coming cowboys, is norman really any different or any better than stillwater?
what a great tradition OU has, one that deserves respect, but, the cowboys are coming, gunning for you and the rest of the big 12, and maybe the balance of power will change. change is always a constant in college football, jimmy, you should know that, look at your own history, want gary gibbs back ?, blake ?, how about another vodka schenelleberger? so get ready to sulk,
is it 5 in a row now? why yes it is, but no one celebtates
this, 98% of poke fans wanted OU to win for state pride
and for conference recognition. so loser of 5 big games in a row, sit down and be quite, for a change. I doubt if you even graduated from OU, most obnixous sooner fans did not.
remember it’s a college game, played by kids. by the way,
congrats to sam bradford, won the heisman against us, what a classy young man.
Only people who have little education or lack of brain power would want to talk about ou and Texas in the same context when ou last game is…. Besides who on earth will dare to say never as good as ou and Texas, be specific before your talk garbage. You must be a high school kid talking like a …. Get educated jimmy, stop using your brain between your butt.
Some time is a good thing that things happened, otherwise, we wouldn’t able to get good people in and not desire people out. All in all, things happened for the best of Cowboys.
Absolutely classless move by Taylor and/or Luper to screw over OSU with Randle.