The Oklahoma Sooners football program has to be on cloud nine right now.
Sure, a lot of bad has happened over the last few weeks, with defensive coordinator Zac Alley taking a job to go to worse programs with pretty much the same role, just a bit more freedom. And then, of course, there is the fact that the transfer portal killed them. They lost over a quarter of their roster to the portal, and have slowly started to recover from it by adding more players, even if they are from Kennesaw State.
But all of that is beside the point.
On Thursday, as the Oklahoma Sooners’ women’s basketball team lost to the Texas Longhorns in a great game, but one that saw them fluster late in the game, the Sooners’ football program was getting themselves a win. The Under Armour Next All-American game happened just an hour or so before the basketball game.
And in that game, five-star plus offensive tackle Michael Fasusi put on a show.
The Under Armour Next All-American game is exactly what you think it is — all of the best players in the country playing against each other before they go to college. Fasusi, the Sooners’ biggest recruit for the 2025 class, was in the game, and he showed out.
He actually won the On3 MVP award, as he was not only the best player during the game, but the whole week as well, where he battled in one-on-ones, and was a player that absolutely stood out.
The Sooners needed this news badly, as they were a team that started to lose some recruits, and really were in a bad place as a program in terms of how the fan base was feeling. Not many were insanely happy about this top-15 recruiting class, either, but this certainly helps.
Fasusi stayed loyal on signing day when a lot of people thought he may flip to Texas A&M or the Texas Longhorns . He stayed, and he showed that the Sooners could have an anchor in the future.