The 5-Star Pick is In for Sooners
The momentum has been building for weeks, Oklahoma and Michael Fasusi have seemed to be circling each other. From the time that Fasusi left his Sooners official visit on June 14 there has been considerable chatter that they had pushed themselves to the top of his list. The nation’s No. 3 offensive tackle, and No. 12 overall player is set to make his decision in just a few days.
The 6-foot-5, 299-pound prospect held the Sooners near the top of his list for months, arguably years. But through the spring there was little talk about Oklahoma. The rumors swirled and circulated around Texas and Texas A&M. But now as we sit less than four days from his decision, it seems that the Sooners may be ready to close on one of their most crucial recruitments in memory.
And though many wrote off Oklahoma’s chances in the spring, Fasusi was always adamant about his feeling for the Sooners.
“I would put OU very high on my list, there’s a reason they are in my top 7 of course. It’s always love when I go there. And this time, I just I felt more of that love,” Fasusi said back in April. “Watching their practice, I love what I saw, I love their culture, their staff, the brotherhood. It’s a player-led team. They are still high on my list. I don’t see them coming down any time soon.”
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The Pick is in for the Sooners
For some time in recent weeks the Scoop staff has talked about feeling things were truly leaning Oklahoma’s direction. But over the past 48 hours several key conversations have taken place and SoonerScoop.com recruiting editor Josh McCuistion is ready to enter in his prediction for Oklahoma to reel in one of the highest-rated offensive lineman in school history.
On3 Recruiting Prediction Machine (RPM)
Though On3 expert predictions are a key part of the On3 RPM, they are far from the only information the RPM takes into account. Take a look at a breakdown of all that the algorithm considers as it calculates a school’s likelihood to land a prospect. In this case Oklahoma currently stands as a 62.6-percent favorite for Fasusi.
How did that number come about? Here’s an idea of On3’s considerations.
- Insight and inputted predictions from industry experts:
- On3 National Recruiting Insiders
- On3 Fan Site Recruiting Insiders
- Industry experts with proven track records (Outside of On3 staff)
- Visits (by the player and by coaches):
- Official Visits
- Unofficial Visits
- Coaches Visits
- Sentiment, analyzed by machine-learning:
- Social sentiment from the athlete
- Media sentiment
- Data of previous related outcomes:
- Geographic Data
- Coaching Staff historical data
- State historical data
- High School historical data
Fasusi A Highly Valued Talent
Fasusi currently has an On3 NIL Valuation of $848K. The On3 NIL Valuation is the industry’s leading index that sets high school and college athletes’ projected annual value (PAV). The NIL valuation does not act as a tracker of the value of NIL deals an athlete has completed to date. It rather signifies an athlete’s value at a certain moment in time.
