Announced on twitter he will be Continuing his football career at Tulsa. Excited to see what this young man can do.
Grayson Boomer
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Wow. Good surprise. Let’s hope our OC is not too stubborn to use him for more than an extra blocker.
Frankly, I never expected to see him here so I didn’t pay much attention to his recruiting. Does he have the speed to be a Charles Clay-type H back, if Monty would miraculously adapt some?
Frankly, I never expected to see him here so I didn’t pay much attention to his recruiting. Does he have the speed to be a Charles Clay-type H back, if Monty would miraculously adapt some?
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He’ll have the 2020 season to get healthy, and then I’d expect him to start or play some sort of 1-2 punch with Kainer. Remember, Kainer is arguably the best Juco tight end in the country and will be a bigger receiving threat while Boomer’s specialty is as a mobile blocker who is unproven as a pass catching threat due to his size and specialty in high school.
Assuming this ESPN recruiting profile info is correct (http://www.espn.com/college-sports/football/recruiting/player/_/id/227590/grayson-boomer), he has the most impressive offer sheet I think I’ve ever seen for a TU player. Anyone know if there is anyone else that we’ve had that could top it?
I have doubts he will be playing in a game for our present OC.
Boomer is a bit of a “tweener” at this point. Not really fast enough to be a down the field receiving threat and not big enough to be a superior blocker. OSU wanted him to move to left tackle. Boomer wanted to play TE. Thus the transfer. I would expect him to be eligible next season. I don’t think OSU will have a problem with immediate eligibility considering the circumstances of his departure.
I’m sure our incompetent AD will screw it up. He’ll probably be eligible in 2024.
Petera Wilson of the 2014 class is the first to come to mind. Had offers from Alabama, LSU, Ohio State, Florida, Florida State, Tennessee, UCLA, USC and more.
I am surprised our HC/OC isn't getting higher rated skill players for the high powered offense we run.
In golf. And we don’t even have a men’s golf team.
Welcome to TU Grayson!
May you have a great career as a Golden Hurricane!
May you have a great career as a Golden Hurricane!
Wilson was a weird deal and one of those things that makes people discount rivals scouting and evaluations. He was unranked and unrated, then got evaluated, jumped like 100 places, then was re evaluated and went back to unranked. He was a good player. I’m glad we signed him. He had no business at Alabama and recruiting hype is all that would have sent him there. I doubt we sign him if his recruiting hadn’t dropped off considerably at the end.
Wilson was one of those players who peaked early in his Junior year. Those early offers weren’t there when he committed to TU. Some kids develop early while some continue to develop as they mature. Glad we were able to grab him. Good player.
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That’s why offers don’t matter. Kids we get to commit in June don’t have the offers that kids who commit in February “have.” It’s the same thing almost every year. You either get them before anyone else can or you get them after other schools have passed. But suddenly the ones in February look like the real deal because of those offers. The June sleepers are never sexy but I promise they’re worth it.
Tell me more about sleeping with sexy.
Signed,
barrister.
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barrister.
Welcome to TU, Grayson!
Now to utilize the tight ends we have...
Now to utilize the tight ends we have...
Don't get me started....
They cut it for cost. And wanted a 10 million endowment to bring it back.
Stinks. Its not a costly sport... I bet you could run it for 300k and 4 scholarships. I would coach it for minimum wage. (Although you might get what you pay for.)
They could always make men’s golf a club sport, kind of like bowling was in the 1970s when we bowled against OSU, ECU, NEOSU and ORU.
It’s 4.5 scholarships for men’s golf. When they cut the program in 2016 they said it would save $520,000 per year and they needed to cut $500,000 annually.
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The irony is that we need tackles more than we need TEs. We've got some talent coming in that may keep him off the field at TE. He could end up a slightly undersized tackle eventually anyway.
If we're going to be restarting men's programs I don't think Golf is on the top of many people's lists anyway. Baseball would be much better (although we all know it can't / won't happen)
Golf would just be much cheaper. I contend that a good men's golf team more than pays for itself in the long run especially if the alums have success in the tour. I guarantee OSU gets more money back from merchandise sales and alum donations than they spend on the program not too mention exposure for the school.
The alumni of the program weren’t supporting it anymore to the extent necessary to make it viable, much less the alumni at large buying merchandise. OSU is a different situation altogether in terms of infrastructure and even degree course offerings related to the sport. It make sense over there. It doesn’t make sense over here and distracts from our ability to prepare to beat them in football and basketball which absolutely does matter.
Wish I had enough money that throwing down a cool $20 mill donation wasn't fantasy for me.
I tried to donate $20 mill once. But only if we changed the Golden Hurricane to the Fightin' Coleys. They weren't interested after that.
I ain’t ever seen a Coley that wasn’t a fighter.
I read that another ex Collinsville player, OU’s Levi Draper, has entered the portal. He’ll have two years to play somewhere else.
He’ll likely have 3 yrs because of his injury situations at OU. Believe he missed the first 2 seasons due to injury. Here’s hoping he can stay healthy and that he remembers playing football with the Boomers. We’ve done well with Ou transfers and if our AD could get his act together Draper might be a candidate for immediate eligibility
It may be incorrect, but the World Is reporting that Draper appeared in every OU game over the past two years.
Levi is originally from Owasso but transferred to Collinsville at a young age.
My daughter cheered for his team way back in Mighty Mites. Even as a 2nd grader, you could tell that he would be playing for a long time.
My bad on that. Apparently I misread the blurb about him transferring. His injuries were mentioned a lot BUT not mentioned is that he played in 28 games, mostly on special teams while at OU. The clarification I heard was that he couldn't crack the 2 deep at MLB on defense.
So, hopefully 2 years out of him and not having to sit.