For years Oklahoma fans have watched recruiting wins and losses and there\u2019s been a question that has always lingered.<\/p>\n
What would it be like recruiting as an SEC program?<\/p>\n
Now that the Sooners are landing prospects who\u2019ll only ever know life in the SEC perhaps that question can be truly answered. What\u2019s interesting is one of the first commitments to be very clear about his interest in being in the SEC is Oklahoma\u2019s newest commitment Mykel Patterson-McDonald<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n The interesting thing about Patterson-McDonald is that he\u2019s a local guy who is a Sooners legacy. But still, there\u2019s no denying what drew him to Oklahoma.<\/p>\n \u201c(I\u2019m committing to) the University of Oklahoma,\u201d Patterson-McDonald said. \u201cI made that choice because I felt it was the best place for me. It\u2019s close to home and it\u2019s an amazing program \u2013 it\u2019s a top 10 program, a top five program. That\u2019s what I want to be a part of. <\/p>\n \u201cI want to go and play against the best of the best in the SEC. They are taking that step my freshman year, the opener we play \u2018Bama and I want to be able to step on the field and play against the best team out there.\u201d<\/p>\n For the No. 7 player in OKPreps, according to On3 Industry rankings, there was a moment recently when it clicked. And for the Moore (Okla.) Westmoore product there was no doubt what pushed him to his final realization.<\/p>\n \u201cI had the moment about two weeks ago, knowing that I want to go and play against the best of the best. I want to play against the best people out there,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n Patterson said: \u201cI also am going to play against some amazing people as well, some great people as well. Some of the great teams playing against each other, that\u2019s something I\u2019d love to be a part of. [We can] go and get (a championship) together.\u201d<\/p>\n And though it\u2019s impossible to know whether Oklahoma staying in the Big 12 would have been surmountable for the Sooners, for Patterson-McDonald the SEC entry says not just a lot about the program but the man in charge \u2013 Brent Venables<\/a>. <\/p>\n \u201c(The move to the SEC) plays big, it boosted my interested, it let me know they want to go play against the best,\u201d he explained. That\u2019s what I\u2019m into and that\u2019s what I want to do. It shows me what type of head coach, coach V is. He has a lot of trust in his players to go out and play against the best people.\u201d<\/p>\n The timing of Patterson-McDonald\u2019s decision was largely about turning his focus to his senior season for the Jaguars. But it also was about him taking the time he needed to do his due diligence on the Sooners. He grew up with a special affection for Oklahoma but wanted to make sure that wasn\u2019t a deciding factor.<\/p>\n \u201cI had to make sure that I wasn\u2019t just going to go to the school because of the name and how big the program was,\u201d he said. \u201cI had to make sure it was the right fit for me and if it was good for me. If it\u2019s not good for me and I\u2019m not comfortable then that\u2019s not the place for me. I want to be comfortable and know I\u2019m taken care of.\u201d<\/p>\n Patterson-McDonald is Oklahoma\u2019s second in-state commitment joining friend, and Carl Albert star, Xavier Robinson<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n The post Defensive back Mykel Patterson-McDonald commits to Sooners<\/a> appeared first on On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For years Oklahoma fans have watched recruiting wins and losses and there\u2019s been a question…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Could the SEC Move Reflect Well on Brent Venables?<\/h2>\n