It’s that day of the year that every college football recruitnik works so hard to prepare for. It is also that day of the year that grown men have fits over what an 18-year old kid decides to do with his life. Don’t be that guy, please.

While some Oklahoma Sooners fans have been cautiously nervous about NSD, the class has turned out to be a decent one. They unfortunately didn’t get a couple position players they needed and a could-have-been Sooner legacy, Justin Manning signed with Texas A&M. Which was announced around a month ago; his brother is Demarcus Granger.

All-in-all, the day has turned out pretty well so far. Just think Sooner Nation, you could be a fan of USC, where the recruits have jumping ship like the boat is on fire.

Just stating the obvious here when I’m looking at the signess, but pretty stoked about Keith Ford (4* RB), Hatari Byrd (4* DB), D.J. Ward (4* DE) and Cody Thomas (4* QB).

As it sits right now half way through the day, it looks like Oklahoma will finish with a Top 15 class for 2013.

Here is how it has shaped up so far (via SoonerSports.com):

Early Signee	Jed Barnett	P	6-2	215		Camas, Wash. (Laney College)
Early Signee	Dannon Cavil	WR	6-5	205		San Antonio, Texas (James Madison HS)
Early Signee	Quincy Russell	DL	6-4	315		San Antonio, Texas (Trinity Valley CC)
Early Signee	Ahmad Thomas	S	6-1	205		Miami, Fla. (Miami Central HS)
Early Signee	D.J. Ward	DE	6-2	245		Moore, Okla. (Southmoore HS)
7:28 a.m.	Ogbonnia Okoronkwo	DE	6-3	220		Houston, Texas (Alief Taylor HS)
7:29 a.m.	Keith Ford	RB	5-11	208		Cypress, Texas (Cypress Ranch HS)
7:33 a.m.	Jordan Smallwood	WR	6-2	190		Jenks, Okla. (Jenks HS)
7:36 a.m.	Christian Daimler	OT	6-6	270		Houston, Texas (Stratford HS)
7:42 a.m.	Austin Bennett	WR	6-0	170		Manvel, Texas (Manvel HS)
7:47 a.m.	Matthew Romar	DL	6-3	268		Port Arthur, Texas (Memorial HS)
7:52 a.m.	Charles Walker	DL	6-3	280		Garland, Texas (South Garland HS)
8:04 a.m.	Stanvon Taylor	CB	5-11	175		Tulsa, Okla. (East Central HS)
8:09 a.m.	Dominique Alexander	LB	6-2	195		Tulsa, Okla. (Booker T. Washington HS)
8:11 a.m.	Josiah St. John	OT	6-6	305		Toronto, Canada (Trinity Valley CC)
8:29 a.m.	Dionte Savage	OL	6-5	345		Flint, Mich. (Arizona Western CC)
8:39 a.m.	Cody Thomas	QB	6-5	220		Colleyville, Texas (Heritage HS)
8:48 a.m.	Matt Dimon	DE	6-2	252		Katy, Texas (Katy HS)
9:17 a.m.	Hatari Byrd	S	6-1	195		Fresno, Calif. (Central East HS)
9:39 a.m.	Jordan Evans	LB/KR	6-3	210		Norman, Okla. (Norman North HS)
9:59 a.m.	Kerrick Huggins	DL	6-3	289		Dallas, Texas (Skyline HS)
10:08 a.m.	K.J. Young	WR	6-1	182		Perris, Calif. (Citrus Hill HS)
11:21 a.m.	Dakota Austin	CB	5-11	167		Lancaster, Texas (Lancaster HS)

This a look of the new generation of student-athletes that will be donning the Crimson and Cream.

Godby HS TE Laith Harlow

After a long day of waiting patiently by the computer, paying attention to every last tweet, text and update from the University of Oklahoma, signing day came to a close.

Oklahoma ended up with 26 commits spread out in 11 different states. Six of the commits are JUCO transfers, the other nineteen are high school athletes, that will be making the trek to Norman during the Summer.

You may be looking at this and saying, didn’t she say 26… 6 JUCO’s and 19 HS players do not equal 26.

Let me introduce you to Laith Harlow.

Harlow, a TE out of Tallahassee, FL has been a long time commit of the Sooners. Rumors starting rolling that the reason that Harlow’s LOI was so late coming in yesterday was because they were discussing the possibility of a medical hardship. The medical hardship would not count against scholarships Oklahoma receives a year, which is 85. Though it would immediately take away his eligibility.

His LOI was faxed into to Norman, but his name was not on the official release from the school later on during the day. Stoops was also very careful to skirt the Harlow issue during his press conference yesterday.

Harlow is overcoming an extremely severe back injury, and had to have surgery. Some are saying that he will never play football again. By Stoops not pulling his scholarship offer, he would be allowing Harlow to attend the University of Oklahoma, still on scholarship and still able to be a member of the Sooner family.

Bob Stoops could have pulled the kids scholly, not have to worry about filing a medical hardship and get on with his day. Instead he is still giving the kid a chance. Pretty classy move considering that most head coaches would have just turned their head and forgotten about it.

He picked Oklahoma over Alabama last May, and I’m not sure he would be in the same situation if he would have rolled with the Tide.

Good luck to Harlow, and hopefully we will have good news of a recovery process soon.

It’s Christmas in February! Today is National Signing Day and the commits are rolling in this morning.

Check out what who has pledged to the crimson and cream so far today:

Ride Schooner, Ride will be updating throughout the day with live updates on new recruits coming to Norman. Keep checking back for more news.

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And that’s a wrap for signing day 2012 in Norman. Just got done watching the live Stoops presser and he was as optimistic as I have seen him in quite some time!

Hopefully this is a sign of great things to come in 2012.

Tomorrow is National Signing day for the college football world. What that means is that we get to see who will be coming on to join the Sooners for the 2012 season, and help Oklahoma continue on for the Chase for Eight.

As I reported last week, we have six players who are already enrolled in school, and will get to begin Spring ball with the team in a couple months. The six include:

Wednesday, I will be doing a live update on the site with each player who signs his NLI with the Sooners. Coverage starts at 9:00 AM.

Ever wondered what a National Letter of Intent looked like? Wonder no more, click HERE to see what exactly the players will be signing tomorrow.

These kids have big decisions to make tomorrow, and I know some of them are on twitter. Sooner Nation needs to remember that tweeting a potential player asking him to commit to Oklahoma in the next 24 hours is wrong, and just plain creepy. I doubt an 18 year old boy is going to base his life changing decision on you telling him where to go. It’s also against NCAA rules to do so. If you are a Sooner Club member, guess what, you’re a booster and the NCAA frowns on boosters recruiting players, right? Don’t be that guy who ruins a kids career. Let’s also not attack players who DON’T commit. It’s their choice, not yours and if they don’t want to go to Oklahoma, that’s their loss. Move on and get familiar with the kids who do sign.

Everyone excited yet?

Photo credit: Rivals.com

Monday night, Dorial Green-Beckham will give Sooner head coach Bob Stoops an in-home visit.  This will be the last real shot at recruiting the highly sought after WR stud.

National signing day is just a little over a week away and would be a HUGE get for the Sooners if he does end up committing. Never heard of DGB? He is the No. 1 recruit in the country right now and has been offered by 2o + schools, including Oklahoma, Texas, Mizzou, Alabama and Arkansas.

He has made official visits to Arkansas and Texas. Being that he is from Missouri, he may stay close to home and end up sticking with Mizzou as his choice.

With as many transfers and decommits as of late, this is very optimistic news, though he hasn’t made an official visit to Norman, an in-home visit is just as good. Bob will be bringing Jay Norvell with him, which could be crucial.

More on this once we get official word.