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Top Prospect Bai Jobe Puts Oklahoma in Final 3

The state's top prospect has long been impressed by the culture at OU, and on Tuesday, he laid out how he feels about the Sooners.
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Top Prospect Bai Jobe Puts Oklahoma in Final 3
Top Prospect Bai Jobe Puts Oklahoma in Final 3

Bai Jobe, one of the top college football prospects in the country and the No. 1 recruit in Oklahoma, gave the Sooners some good news on Tuesday.

Jobe, a 4-star member of the 2023 recruiting class, according to 247 Sports, dropped his top three schools on Twitter, and OU is there with Alabama and Michigan State.

Jobe, a 6-foot-4, 215-pound edge rusher from Community Christian School in Norman, said he was “thankful for everyone that (has) offered me the chance to live my dream. Recruiting allows for many relationships & it isn’t easy.”

Jobe also holds offers from Arkansas, Baylor, Georgia, Miami, Michigan, Oklahoma State, Penn State, TCU, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Washington and others.

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John E. Hoover
JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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