How universities across the country and their athletic departments have innovated to the emptiness of campuses and the inability to get their have been a key cog in the competition against each other.
First, it was the virtual football recruiting visits that made waves soon after the coronavirus pandemic shut sports down. Oklahoma football waited until it had a finished product to roll out its virtual visit. Recruits have reported to multiple outlets how incredible those have been and the personalization of them.
Now, Oklahoma athletics may be the first to roll out a way for every person with an internet connection and recruit to get a virtual visit of every sports program, its facilities and the curricular side of sports in strength and conditioning, nutrition, medicine and academics.
The website is only1oklahoma.com. Someone interested can go to every sport and get of all the regular and extra things that come with being a student-athlete in a virtual fashion. A university spokesperson confirmed that the aim of this website was geared towards recruits and to highlight in one place the facilities and everything else Oklahoma has going for them.
The Sooners digital media department had a major hand in putting this together.
This website release came on the heels of the NCAA extended its mandated dead period through July 31—essentially ending any summer visits for potential student-athletes.
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