Oklahoma Target Micah Tease Commits to Arkansas

Oklahoma misplaced an enormous one on Monday.

Micah Tease, a 4-star athlete within the 2023 class from Booker T. Washington Excessive College in Tulsa, gave his verbal dedication to play school soccer at Arkansas.

He picked the Razorbacks over OU, Notre Dame, USC and Texas A&M.

The Sooners have been recruiting the 5-foot-11, 180-pound Tease as a defensive again ever since Brent Venables arrived and made his first recruiting journey up the Turner Turnpike.

However OU and Tease, who instructed SI Sooners this spring that he needed to play vast receiver, couldn’t attain an accord, and now he’s verbally dedicated to the Razorbacks.

He took his official go to to Notre Dame on June 10, then visited USC on June 16 and completed with Arkansas on June 24. He didn’t take an official go to to OU, however has been on campus and across the crew quite a few occasions — particularly being greatest pals with present Sooner and former BTW teammate Gentry Williams, who acquired an in-home go to from Venables the day after he was employed.

Tease mentioned in March that he’d largely been in communication with OU defensive again coaches Brandon Corridor and Jay Valai however mentioned he’d additionally talked to offensive coordinator Jeff Lebby and asserted that the thought of enjoying protection in Norman wouldn’t be a hangup for him.

“Wherever I can go and play,” Tease mentioned then. “That is sort of like my ordeal. I am not essentially targeted on like, I’ve to go right here and play protection. You understand, I am simply making an attempt to get on the sphere and work. That is how I take a look at it.”

Tease’s older brother, Myles Tease, was an OU walk-on in 2017-18 after transferring from Central Oklahoma.

It’s a tricky one for the Sooners, who misplaced 4-star tight finish Luke Hasz in January when he flipped his dedication from OU to Arkansas after which final week missed out on 4-star slot receiver Cole Adams to Alabama after getting in late on his recruiting.

“For me,” Tease mentioned in March, it’ll be undoubtedly a spot to (name) residence, a spot away from residence, you recognize, it’s not a transactional relationship, it’s a real bond between me and the teaching employees, the gamers. Someplace for my household (that) it is not laborious for them to at all times come up; undoubtedly someplace the place they will be capable to get there. Someplace the place my household can belief the coaches.”

As of Monday, three of the state of Oklahoma’s prime 5 prospects are headed out of state, per Rivals. Utilizing the 247 Sports activities rankings, it’s three of the highest 4.

OU might be thought-about a frontrunner for 2 still-undecided OKPreps prospects in Norman edge rusher Bai Jobe and Mustang athlete Jacobe Johnson, though Jobe could also be leaning towards Michigan State and Johnson has provides from Alabama, Michigan and Stanford.