Tag: Spencer Rattler

Anonymous coach on Oklahoma: ‘Lincoln (Riley) has shown he’s the real deal’

It’s that time of the year when magazines begin to release their preview of the upcoming season. Anonymous coaches spoke about Oklahoma.

It’s that time of the year when magazines begin to release their preview of the upcoming college football season.

Lindy’s, Athlon’s and Phil Steel’s magazines are still the rage of the offseason when they hit the shelves at book stores. In those, rankings of teams, players and anonymous coaches give out what they think of their opponents.

Athlon’s magazine is the first to hit the shelves. In that, some coaches gave their opinion of Lincoln Riley and Oklahoma.

“Their performance in the playoff game was a total aberration,” one coach said. “I think any coach in this league would tell you that. Nothing about that game really matched up with the improvement they’d shown last year. I think the personnel killed them. Too many injuries and too many suspensions. Grinch did a phenomenal job with them last year up until that point. Don’t judge them on that game.”

Oklahoma lost to LSU 63-28 in the 2019 Peach Bowl. Impact player Ronnie Perkins and major contributors Rhamondre Stevenson and Trejan Bridges were out. Starting safety Delarrin Turner-Yell broke his collarbone in the practices leading up to the game.

The Sooners will be returning to form offensively in 2020 with presumed starter Spencer Rattler, not to say that 2019 was off from the norm—Oklahoma had the No. 2 best SP+ offense in college football behind LSU. Alex Grinch will be in year two commanding the offense, and Riley has had more success in his first three years than every coach since 1894.

Yes, 1894.

“If you assume that Lincoln is automatic at finding ways to score points, you measure Oklahoma’s quality by how long it will take Grinch to get them up to speed on defense,” another coach said. “You have to consider them a conference title contender every single season. Lincoln has shown he’s the real deal.”

Oklahoma is set to begin its 2020 campaign on Sept. 5 against Missouri State at home.

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Opendorse says Spencer Rattler is worth $769,300 in potential yearly NLI earnings

The conversation about name, image and likeness has ramped up. And with that, so have athlete marketing firms. Spencer Rattler is worth …

The name, image and likeness conversation for NCAA student-athletes ramped up throughout the coronavirus pandemic. As the NCAA took a harder look, so did marketing firms.

It started around the NFL Draft when one marketing firm floated the idea that Trevor Lawrence could make near $500,000 based on his social media following and influence. That micro conversation about college football’s biggest star turned into a macro conversation on Wednesday.

Opendorse, an athlete marketing firm founded by two former college football players, released data on selected college athletes. The internet burned down as Texas’ Sam Ehlinger had the biggest potential earnings despite less social media following than those listed below him.

Opendorse co-founder and CEO Blake Lawrence took to Twitter after criticism of the released data. The formula in which Opendorse uses isn’t media value—the regular centralized data marketing firms typically use that takes a handful of variables to come up with a value to give to potential advertisement suitors for a social media post or live advertisement.

Lawrence, in a response to one of my tweets, says, “… it is based on the actual amount that professional athletes (with similar following, engagement rate, etc.) get paid for promoted posts, based on 10+ years of primary transaction data captured through Opendorse.”

After the pushback, he shared data for three of Oklahoma’s prominent student-athletes. Lawrence says expected starting quarterback Spencer Rattler is worth $769,300 in potential earnings per year.

How media value and potential earnings is found remains to be in the eye of the beholder. A big conversation taking place for the NLI rights of student-athletes is a centralized system for media value so that there is not a major discrepancy in how the data will be presented to student-athletes.

Regardless, the commonality rings the same—these prominent student-athletes are worth a ton of money.

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Oklahoma 2020 player card: No. 14 Charleston Rambo

Sooners Wire will be creating player cards for readers to be introduced to the 2020 roster. Here is the No. 14 Charleston Rambo.

There is a ton of momentum to having a 2020 college football season these days. No definite signs, yet, but the season would start less than 100 days from now.

Sooners Wire will be creating player cards for readers to be introduced to the 2020 roster.

Here is the No. 14 for Oklahoma.

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Name: Charleston Rambo

Number: No. 14

Year: Redshirt junior

Position: Wide receiver

Hometown: Cedar Hill, Texas 

Height/Weight: 6-foot-1, 179 pounds

There is no one who will benefit more from having Spencer Rattler at quarterback than Charleston Rambo.

The former four-star recruit according to Rivals took a redshirt year in 2017 as a freshman. Rambo finished as the No. 97 best player in the country and the 18th best wide receiver in the 2017 recruiting class.

His coming out party came on the long touchdown from catch from Kyler Murray in the 2018 Orange Bowl after an injury to Marquise Brown. In his first year in a prominent role in Oklahoma’s offense, Rambo caught 43 passes for 743 receiving yards and caught five touchdowns last season.

Rambo will move into an important role as Oklahoma’s only experienced Z-receiver with Jadon Haselwood and Trejan Bridges (for the first five games) out for 2020. His production dropped in 2019 when Jalen Hurts’ production through the air did after halfway through the season.

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Oklahoma 2020 player card: No. 7 Spencer Rattler

Lincoln Riley’s first ‘organic’ quarterback is expected to take the reigns over in 2020.

There is a ton of momentum to having a 2020 college football season these days. No definite signs, yet, but the season would start three and a half months from now.

Sooners Wire will be creating player cards for readers to be introduced to the 2020 roster.

Here is one of two No. 7’s on Oklahoma’s roster: QB1.

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Name: Spencer Rattler

Number: No. 7

Year: Redshirt Freshman

Position: Quarterback

Hometown: Phoenix, Arizona

Height/Weight: 6-foot-0, 191 pounds

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Lincoln Riley’s first ‘organic’ quarterback is expected to take the reigns over in 2020. Rattler was a five-star quarterback coming out of high school, the first such signing for the Sooners since Rhett Bomar in the 2004 class, per Rivals.

Rattler took a redshirt year, sitting behind Jalen Hurts. Although redshirted, Rattler saw live snaps in three of the allotted four-games to retain his redshirt season.

Against South Dakota, Rattler gave Sooners fans plenty to be excited about as he went four-of-four through the air for 50 yards including a touchdown and another 15 yards on two rushes. After going two-for-four for 23 yards against Texas Tech Rattler did not see another live snap until the Peach Bowl against LSU.

While the game was well in hand, getting College Football Playoff snaps can only bode well for the Rattler’s future.

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Spencer Rattler’s potential name, image, likeness worth at Oklahoma is over six figures

There is no bigger conversation aside from the return of sports that the NCAA is tackling than the name, image and likeness proposition. 

There is no bigger conversation aside from the return of sports that the NCAA is tackling than the name, image and likeness proposition.

Since Ed O’Bannon sued the NCAA over his name, image and likeness being used for profit in NCAA basketball video games, the definition of student athletes and employees of the university has been black and white and one the NCAA has balanced carefully.

Oklahoma’s Spencer Rattler came to Norman, Oklahoma, with a huge brand. After one season, Rattler has the biggest following of Sooners players with 314,000 followers on Instagram and near 47,000 followers on Twitter. The NCAA is heating up the name, image and likeness conversation, which has one athlete marketing company proposing that someone like Trevor Lawrence could be worth near $500,000 based on his brand.

“Blake Lawrence (CEO, Opendorse) crunched some numbers for Yahoo Sports in a phone interview on Wednesday and concluded Trevor Lawrence could make more than a half-million off of social media endorsements alone this season,” reported Yahoo! Sports. “Trevor Lawrence has nearly 500,000 Instagram followers and 81,000 Twitter followers. He came up with the monetary answer by calculating the engagement rate on each feed. For an Instagram post, Trevor Lawrence could make $16,000. For a Twitter post, it would be about $1,100 per post. He estimated 12 interested local businesses and 50 total posts.”

The word media value was not used and is one that is complex and the reason behind the value mentioned. Max media value is the most money a person can make if the entire image on an advertisement is sold. That includes the 100 percent visibility of brands in an image, 100 percent engagement of an image and many other factors. The max media value of a potential advertisement is hardly ever met.

Lawrence has over 500,000 Instagram followers and 81,000 Twitter followers after starting as a true freshman and leading Clemson to a national championship. He played in a second year, too. Rattler is not far behind, and the former five-star quarterback from the 2019 class hasn’t started a game for Oklahoma yet.

The conversation of student-athlete compensation with their name, image and likeness is still strong and it is something that could be implemented by the 2021-22 NCAA sport season. If it passes, Rattler is going to be worth way over six figures for his second season as the starting quarterback for the Sooners.

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Oklahoma among teams on the brink of ‘greatness’ per CBS Sports

With an 0-4 College Football Playoff record, Oklahoma has the talent to get there, but can they overcome the proverbial hump?

With an 0-4 College Football Playoff record, Oklahoma has the talent to get there, but can they overcome the proverbial hump?

CBS Sports writer Ben Kercheval says the Sooners are close.

Oklahoma is on a list of six teams that are believed to have rosters that can take home a national title during the current four-year recruiting cycle. Other teams that are listed include Texas, Florida, Penn State, USC, and Texas A&M.

With a blue-chip ratio of 62%, the Sooners are closer to a national championship than some Oklahoma fans may think. Getting matchups against LSU, Alabama, Georgia, and Clemson in the College Football Playoff has not helped the Sooners chances. However, Oklahoma’s semifinal opponent is 1-3 in the national title game (2019 LSU).

With Spencer Rattler presumably taking the reigns this upcoming season with offensive weapons like Kennedy Brooks and Charleston Rambo and Alex Grinch in year two of a defensive renaissance, and a consistent development of highly ranked recruiting classes, the Sooner’s immediate future looks bright.

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Top five quarterbacks Texas will face in 2020

Even with an improved defense, UT is going to have some challenges with these talented QBs. Here are the top five QBs UT will face in 2020:

Outside of Sam Ehlinger, the quarterback play for the Big 12 is full of talent going into the 2020 season. To win in the conference, quarterbacks must be the driving force of the offense.

A mixture of younger and older signal callers have taken over, ranging from a redshirt freshman like Spencer Rattler, all the way to juniors and seniors such as Brock Purdy and Charlie Brewer.

Getting ripped to shreds in the passing game last season, the Longhorns ranked ninth in the Big 12 last season. Even with an improved defense, Texas is going to have some challenges ahead facing these talented quarterbacks.

Related: Game-by-game prediction for the 2020 Texas Longhorns football season

Here are the top five quarterbacks Texas will face in 2020:

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Early 2020 Oklahoma football projection: Sooners to live by the close game once again

The football season remains an unsure thing, but the days, weeks and months are getting closer to the football season or not having one.

The football season remains an unsure thing, but the days, weeks and months are getting closer to the football season or not having one at all.

Oklahoma football in 2019 was as much of an unknown as Oklahoma football has been since the turn of the century. Lincoln Riley brought in a different style of quarterback in with Jalen Hurts from Alabama and a new defense with Alex Grinch.

Riley adjusted his offense—running a ton of 11 (one fullback or tight end, one running back and three wide receivers) and 12 personnel (two fullbacks or tight ends, one running back and two wide receivers), which was completely different from the offenses from 2015-18. Grinch’s defense was known for havoc and disruption in the front, and that is what he brought to the table. Besides interceptions, sacks, tackles for loss and passes defended were all up.

Now, Oklahoma heads into a season with a Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray-esque quarterback in Spencer Rattler, who is the presumed starter in 2020. The offense should revert right back to the Murray and Mayfield offenses while the defense continues to build depth and build on the strides made in 2019.

Across the USA TODAY college wires, we are projecting the 2020 season despite the uncertainty of the upcoming season. Sooners Wire is working through the schedule for Oklahoma in 2020 and have some projections.

All games are on Saturday and times are to be determined.

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Spencer Rattler a mainstay inside top-4 of Heisman odds for 2020

There has been no bigger buzz for the first year of a player in Norman since maybe the days Adrian Peterson walked around Oklahoma’s campus.

There has been no bigger buzz for the first year of a player in Norman, Oklahoma, since maybe the days Adrian Peterson walked around Oklahoma’s campus.

Spencer Rattler is the talk of town despite not starting a game for Oklahoma quite yet. The former five-star and No. 1 quarterback out of the 2019 class has provided a glimpse of what he could become in a game against South Dakota and then replacing Jalen Hurts against LSU in the Peach Bowl.

The potential under Lincoln Riley of Rattler being more aligned to Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray rather than Hurts has been felt in the sports gambling world. Back in Jan., odds started to come out for the 2020 Heisman—Rattler was found in fourth by multiple sports books. Another oddsmaker placed him at fourth on Thursday.

That’s higher than senior and fourth-year starter Sam Ehlinger at Texas. Higher than all-time Oklahoma State running back Chuba Hubbard, and just behind Ohio State’s Justin Fields and Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence.

Rattler will have plenty of weapons at his disposal in 2020. Former five-stars Theo Wease and Trejan Bridges (after five games due to suspension) will be lined out wide. Tight end Austin Stogner became a key cog to Oklahoma’s offense at the end of 2019 and Bill Bedenbaugh returns four starters off his offensive line.

Mayfield and Murray won the Heisman Trophies in 2017 and ’18. Oklahoma has had seven Heisman Trophy winners in its program history.

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Oklahoma among 10 most talented rosters for 2020 season, per 247 Sports

247 Sports gave which schools have the most talented rosters heading into the 2020 season. By no surprise, the Sooners made the list.

Oklahoma is a blueblood and a perennial Collge Football Playoff contender, but the Sooners haven’t been able to get over the College Football Playoff semifinal hump.

247 Sports gave which schools have the most talented rosters heading into the 2020 season. By no surprise, Oklahoma made the list.

Barton Simmons, 247 Sports’ director of scouting, gave high praise to Lincoln Riley’s squad.

“If you think the latest Heisman Trophy finalist’s departure from Oklahoma means a dip in production, I’ve got bad news for you,” Simmons said. “Oklahoma’s rising sophomore class has the best set of offensive talent in the country in the class of 2019 and that’s led by the top quarterback in Spencer Rattler. The offensive line recruiting continues to plug along as well and defensive recruitment has improved to help current standouts like Jalen Redmond. The talent is still flashy in Norman.”

Charleston Rambo will have to step up into the role in place of CeeDee Lamb. The door is open for guys like Marvin Mims or Theo Howard to take on the role that Jadon Haselwood’s ACL tear leaves vacant. Defensively the departure of Kenneth Murray will sting, but this is where Alex Grinch will have to shine.

The Sooners were the only Big 12 team to make the list. Texas A&M, Florida, Georgia, LSU, and Alabama represent the SEC. Ohio State and Penn State lead the way in the Big 10 while Clemson and Oregon are solo representatives of the ACC and Pac-12.

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