Signing Day 2023 Gets an Early Start Down Under with Hudson Kaak

STILLWATER – When Aussie Rules football veteran and ProKick Australia prospect for American football Hudson Kaak left his home country and the continent to make his official visit to Oklahoma State University he left Melbourne on Friday morning and arrived in Stillwater on Friday morning, actually right around noon.

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Hudson Kaak was really committed before his official visit.

When his visit was over he left Sunday around noon and arrived back in Australia after midnight Monday. It was Tuesday back home. We tend to forget about that old international dateline. It has come into play for Kaak again. The 6-1, 190-pound punter that can kick both tradtional and rugby-style is the first signee in the 2023 Oklahoma State class. 

Cowboys Director of Recruiting Todd Bradford was alone in the Oklahoma State football offices as coaches and staff took an afternoon to pack and get ready for the Cowboys departure Wednesday morning to the Phoenix-area for the Guaranteed Rate Bowl. Bradford was there to receive the scan over computer of Kaak’s NCAA Letter of Intent making him officially an Oklahoma State Cowboy.

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Kaak playing Aussie Rules football.

Kaak has played Aussie Rules football and hooked up with ProKick Australia, a company that grooms punters and kickers in Australia for duty in college and NFL football. Kaak is the No.3 punting prospect in this group of ProKick candidates. This is the same group that sent Tom Hutton to Oklahoma State.

Kaak will arrive in January in time to begin classes and be in the program for offseason and spring football. He is an older student-athlete, but not as old as Hutton, who finished his career when he was injured at Kansas State earlier this season. Hutton will be with the team at the bowl game as he says good-bye to his teammates.