In honor of yesterday's national signing day, and to point out how stupid and ridiculous and over-hyped high school football recruiting is on a micro level, we're counting down the Top 10 Recruiting Fails of the Bob Stoops era.
Earlier today we revealed the 10 - 6. Here's the top five:
5. Justin Johnson | RB | 2008 | Rivals Stars: 4 | National Rank: 136
Who Was He? Just to illustrate how stupid these recruiting services are, Scout.com listed Johnson as the "best player" in Oklahoma’s 2008 recruiting class, ahead of such players as Landry Jones and uh…uh…man that highly rated recruiting class sucked! No wonder OU struggled this year. The players from that class should have been seniors or red-shirt juniors this past season. Only three or four of them are what you would call good to decent players. Ouch.
Where is he now? Johnson didn’t last long at OU. He transferred to Abilene Christian University, where he also didn’t last long. He then transferred to Division III McMurray University where he played for Hal Mumme. He had 818 yards on 162 carries.