Rivals250 DL: Best Time I've Had

As a Rivals250 defensive lineman with offers from Alabama, Oklahoma, Texas, Texas A&M, Florida State, LSU, and numerous others it's safe to say that Bobby Brown knows something of sports fame. It's also safe to say he has been around numerous others who know even more than he does. Last weekend during his Oklahoma official visit, his first of his five allotted officials, he met someone who he knew had plenty of sports fame.

But being around Oklahoma's star quarterback, Baker Mayfield, he came away surprised with Oklahoma's vocal leader.

"Being around Baker, he is funny. He is real cool, real funny, he is laid back. You wouldn’t expect him to be like that with all the publicity he gets but he handles himself very well," Brown offered.

His time around Mayfield was just one of the Sooners players that made his time in Norman, with his mother, memorable.

"It went great, I had, the best time I’ve had in a long time," he said. "I hung out with Peanut (K'Jakyre Daley), Isaiah (Thomas), and Tyrese (Robinson). Isaiah is real funny.

"It wasn’t even really the football aspect; we were just talking, relaxing like we were regular friends. Like I went to OU and we were just chilling."

Though he enjoyed his time around the Sooners players he also spent ample time around the Oklahoma coaching staff, notably lead recruiter Calvin Thibodeaux, defensive tackles coach Ruffin McNeill, and Lincoln Riley.

The second-year Sooner assistant laid out his plans for just how the nation's No. 11 strongside defensive end could fit into Oklahoma's new multiple front.

"I was around all of them but mostly I was around coach Thibs and coach Ruffin, coach Riley, and (Eric) Striker," he explained.

"Just point blank (Thibodeaux talked about) the way they could use me and how much he cares about me as a person and how he is going to treat me and coach me. I got to know him better on a personal level with his family and it was just great.

"He told me that he would be playing me as a 3-technique, 4-technique and let me be versatile and just play football within their scheme."

With Oklahoma's head man Brown says their conversation was far more about just increasing the comfort level between one another than it was about any recruiting pitch.

"We really didn’t have a regular conversation, I talked to him about how things have been going and all of that. We really just kicked it," the nation's No. 184 overall player said.

Brown, with one official down, says he still has plans to take his four available official visits and it seems that his trip to Norman was made largely based on some other possibilities falling through.

"Well at first I was going to go to Florida State but the hurricane moved the game back. So, I knew I wanted to do something this weekend and didn’t know if I wanted to go to somewhere close or far. And I thought, I want to go to OU again so I went up there," he said.

"(I know I'll visit) Florida State, Alabama, and I want to go to LSU and more than likely either probably Texas or Texas A&M. Use an official (for one) and then an unofficial (for the other).

"Alabama is the one that is set, it's the weekend of October 21-22."

The nation's No. 6-foot-5, 270-pound defensive end, who has been invited to the Army All-American bowl in San Antonio next January, says that Oklahoma has made a clear mark in his recruitment.

“A little bit, nah, a lot," he said of Oklahoma's improved impression.

Tomorrow's SoonerScoop will have a lot more on Brown and the Sooners.