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Oklahoma Loses Original 2022 Commit Kobie McKinzie

2022 linebacker Kobie McKinzie added to the wave of prospects decommitting from the Sooners on Sunday night.

John E. Hoover

Linebacker Kobie McKinzie, the first player to offer a verbal commitment to Oklahoma in the 2022 class, has decomitted from the Sooners.

McKinzie, from Cooper High School in Lubbock, announced his decision Sunday night on Twitter.

He’s the latest OU pledge to decommit after Sunday’s news that Oklahoma head coach Lincoln Riley shockingly took the opening at USC, effective immediately.

The news is doubly bad for Oklahoma: it’s starting to sound like most of Riley’s coaching staff will join him at Southern Cal, which explains the sudden wave of decommitments. And National Signing Day is less than three weeks away, Dec. 15. More decommitments are expected before then.

McKinzie originally committed to OU on Feb. 24, 2019, with the intention of reclassifying to the class of 2021. Instead, he will graduate with the 2022 class. He had planned to graduate early and enroll at OU in just a few weeks.

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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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