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Oklahoma State Adds Kema to the Commitment List as He'll Sign Dec. 21

December 19, 2022
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STILLWATER – Isaiah Kema looked good on national television this past Saturday playing center for the Gold Team in the 2022 U.S. Army All-American Bowl. Kema, out of Wolfforth Frenship High School just outside of Lubbock, Texas, visited Oklahoma State last weekend and contacted the OSU staff on Sunday and told them he was committing to the Cowboys over Texas A&M, Kansas, and Nebraska among others. Kema was also a first-team All-State player team as a junior.

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Kema at the U.S. Army Bowl in Frisco, Texas

Kema said he felt very much at home at Oklahoma State as the program has had a number of Polynesian culture players and they were comfortable with him going on the two-year LDS mission. Kema visited Oklahoma State with his mother and his sister. 

He is 6-4, 298-pounds and has played primarily center and guard for the powerful Frenship program. Watching him play he is a leader on the offensive line and is capable of doing about anything. He is bull run blocker but also has the quickness and punch to pass protect. He is a wrestler in high school, which has served him well in leverage and being quick and balanced on his feet. That may be the most fun thing to watch with Kema is his ability to block on the run and pull down the line of scrimmage even from the center position. 

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Kema on his Oklahoma State visit.

For those that are wondering, the NCAA Letter-of-Intent that Kema will sign on Dec. 21 is only good for one-year and Kema will be able to go to any school he wants following mission, but the statistics show that players coming back from mission go back to the school they signed with 92 percent of the time. 

Kema seems like a very loyal young man. The mission is a good thing as he will come back needing to work to get back in football shape but he will be an older, wiser, and more mature person and all of that benefits a college football player. 

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Oklahoma State Adds Kema to the Commitment List as He'll Sign Dec. 21

4,365 Views | 10 Replies | Last: 1 yr ago by CaliforniaCowboy
CaliforniaCowboy
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interesting, sort of like the old days of sign and place at a JUCO...

I'm just wondering with the new rules on class size, how does this affect the number of kids we can take in the class?

and/or, I'm a bit lost in how transfers count or don't count towards a class...

I'm guess that transfers don't count against the 25, so we have plenty of room with the few HS kids we're bringing in? Is that correct?
CaliforniaCowboy
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straight from the horse's mouth....

"I liked the coaches a lot especially coach (Charlie) Dickey, the o-line coach," Kema told 247Sports Director of Recruiting Steve Wiltfong recently. "It felt like home on my visit and I just got along with everyone very well. It seemed like they already had a great culture in place and they also had very nice facilities which is always good."
CaliforniaCowboy
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so... apparently the transfers DO count against the class size of 25.

do we still have "count backs"? If transfer kids show up before Summer or Fall (like now, or for Spring classes) can some of them count back to the empty spots vacated by the transfer outs?

CaliforniaCowboy
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I was able to find some information. for the 2022 class, that class could be 7 more than 25 to allow for transfers.

At the October 2021 meeting, the NCAA granted a waiver to the 25 limit, but I haven't found anything about this current 2023 recruiting class

NCAA waiver will help football teams replace transfers
Oct 6, 2021

Looking to address the growing number of transfers, the NCAA Division I Council approved a one-year waiver Tuesday that will allow college football teams to sign up to seven players to replace those that leave.

Current NCAA rules state a team can sign no more than 25 players to a scholarship in any year. That includes incoming high school prospects and college transfers. The waiver will allow teams to sign 25 players, plus as many as seven transfers not high school players to replace those who transfer out in the first term.
NJAggie
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That was last year. They've now changed the rule to let you take 50 over a two year period from HS & Portal. Still can't exceed 85. So we can take more this year and it will impact how many we can take next year.
CaliforniaCowboy
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NJAggie said:

That was last year. They've now changed the rule to let you take 50 over a two year period from HS & Portal. Still can't exceed 85. So we can take more this year and it will impact how many we can take next year.
thanks.....

we only have 15 pledges so far, so we're below the 25 limit... but signing isn't over until February.

I'm just scratching my head wondering how signing a deferred player like this with zero obligation impacts our "signing". (this year and next)
TUSKAPOKE
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Welcome to OSU!!! Good luck on your mission. GO POKES!!!
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CaliforniaCowboy said:

NJAggie said:

That was last year. They've now changed the rule to let you take 50 over a two year period from HS & Portal. Still can't exceed 85. So we can take more this year and it will impact how many we can take next year.
thanks.....

we only have 15 pledges so far, so we're below the 25 limit... but signing isn't over until February.

I'm just scratching my head wondering how signing a deferred player like this with zero obligation impacts our "signing". (this year and next)

I don't think it does.
NJAggie
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The kid doesn't affect that he'll hold it for the year, but when he doesn't report that slot goes back in the pool. We really don't see him affecting anything until he actually enrolls.
CaliforniaCowboy
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NJAggie said:

The kid doesn't affect that he'll hold it for the year, but when he doesn't report that slot goes back in the pool. We really don't see him affecting anything until he actually enrolls.
because we can have 50 over a two year period?

So he'll block a slot for this year and we can only take 24 others, and if he doesn't use it (goes on Mission), then we can take 26 next year (if we have room in the 85)?

It will be interesting to see how many spots we have available on Feb signing day.
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