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Mike Farrell, Recruiting Director
Baker goes too far
Just when I was really warming up to Baker Mayfield as the fiery leader of the Sooners, he took it a bit too far. Yes, we get it that you were under-recruited as a high school player and yes we understand that the chip on your shoulder is largely because of being disrespected. But do you have to use the national stage of the College Football Playoff to call out TCU for allegedly stringing you along during your recruitment a few years back? Sorry Baker, but that happens all the time, it’s a business and it happens.
If, as you say, you put all your eggs in the TCU basket because you thought they were going to offer you, then that’s on you. Deal with it. It’s a massive mistake for any recruit to put all their hopes on one school and to call out TCU at this stage is something he could have avoided.
And for Gary Patterson to fall into the debate and call out Mayfield’s father as being arrogant is also ridiculous. The bottom line in recruiting is that sometimes when things don’t work out, that’s the best thing that could happen. If Mayfield had been given a scholarship at TCU, he could very well be sitting on the bench or have transferred someplace less desirable than Oklahoma, where now he has a chance to win a title and stuff it in everyone’s face the right way –- by his play on the field.
Mike Farrell, Recruiting Director
Baker goes too far
Just when I was really warming up to Baker Mayfield as the fiery leader of the Sooners, he took it a bit too far. Yes, we get it that you were under-recruited as a high school player and yes we understand that the chip on your shoulder is largely because of being disrespected. But do you have to use the national stage of the College Football Playoff to call out TCU for allegedly stringing you along during your recruitment a few years back? Sorry Baker, but that happens all the time, it’s a business and it happens.
If, as you say, you put all your eggs in the TCU basket because you thought they were going to offer you, then that’s on you. Deal with it. It’s a massive mistake for any recruit to put all their hopes on one school and to call out TCU at this stage is something he could have avoided.
And for Gary Patterson to fall into the debate and call out Mayfield’s father as being arrogant is also ridiculous. The bottom line in recruiting is that sometimes when things don’t work out, that’s the best thing that could happen. If Mayfield had been given a scholarship at TCU, he could very well be sitting on the bench or have transferred someplace less desirable than Oklahoma, where now he has a chance to win a title and stuff it in everyone’s face the right way –- by his play on the field.
