Breaking: Sooners star man commits to Monroe, Louisiana….read more
General Booty is in Monroe, Louisiana, reporting for duty.
The former Oklahoma quarterback used Twitter on Wednesday to announce his transfer to Louisiana-Monroe.
Booty, the newest quarterback for ULM, played in two games during his two seasons at Oklahoma. He played in TCU’s 2022 thrashing of the Sooners and fielded snaps in the closing seconds of Oklahoma’s 2023 opener, a 73-0 sweep of Arkansas State.
Before coming to Norman, Booty competed at the JUCO level for a year, winning at Tyler Junior College in Tyler, Texas. In terms of throwing yards (3,410) and touchdowns (27), he led the NJCAA, and since his JUCO days, he has not recorded a passing stat.
Three-star prospect Booty attended Allen High School in Texas, a dominant high school that produced another Oklahoma quarterback, Kyler Murray. Following Liberty, ULM was the second FBS school to offer Booty a scholarship after he graduated from high school.
Reunited with the Warhawks, the redshirt junior is now part of a new coaching team that was brought in December with the hiring of Bryant Vincent, an interim head coach and former offensive coordinator at UAB. The Booty family had established themselves in Louisiana before General. Josh Booty, his father, was a quarterback for the Cleveland Browns before moving to Shreveport to play collegiate football at LSU.
With General’s arrival, the Warhawks now have six quarterbacks on the roster after finishing spring ball with five. Hunter Herring is the only one who competed in the spring who has thrown a pass at the FBS level. Herring started the Warhawks’ lone other victory of the season, a 24-14 triumph over FCS Lamar in Week 2, and he captained ULM’s double-digit Week 1 comeback victory against Army last year. With 121 passing yards, one touchdown, zero interceptions, and 68 rushing yards, he concluded the season 16-of-30.
Herring missed the rest of the season due to a broken collarbone he sustained in Week 2. Herring is anticipated to be ULM’s starting quarterback for the foreseeable future due to his experience with the playbook and position as the starter, although Booty may challenge him in fall camp under Vincent and his new coaching staff.
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COMMIT: Jeff Nwankwo, the No. 2 JUCO recruit, joins Oklahoma hoops
JUCO All-American On Wednesday, Jeff Nwankwo, who played for Oklahoma and Porter Moser last season and averaged 18.6 points and 7.6 rebounds per game, made his commitment.
For the program’s first SEC season, Oklahoma has added one of the best junior college transfers in the country to its squad.
The second-ranked JUCO talent in the country this cycle, Jeff Nwankwo, declared his commitment to Oklahoma on Wednesday. Nwankwo’s choice follows a visit to the campus of Oklahoma this week and comes only three days after he withdrew his commitment to play at Cal. After committing to Cal last month, the program announced his addition on May 3. However, on Sunday afternoon, Nwankwo resumed recruiting.
Porter Moser and his team wasted little time in getting to work bringing Nwankwo, a native of Oklahoma City who attended Putnam City North High School, back home. The athletic wing, OU’s sixth transfer addition this summer and second in as many days, was a JUCO All-American at Cowley College in Kansas during his previous season. After adding Duke Miles of High Point, Kobe Elvis of Dayton, Brycen Goodine of Fairfield, and Jadon Jones of Long Beach State, the Sooners welcomed big man Mohamed Wague of Alabama on Tuesday.
After declaring for the NBA Draft last month, forward Jalon Moore left the door open to potentially return to the Sooners for his senior season. As of right now, Oklahoma has filled 12 of its 13 available scholarship spots. However, Moser and his staff have been working to rebuild OU’s roster heading into Year 4 as Moore goes through the pre-draft process and gets feedback. This comes after OU lost three seniors, including Le’Tre Darthard and Rivaldo Soares, and saw five players leave via the transfer portal, including wing Otega Oweh and starting guards Milos Uzan and Javian McCollum.
The departure of Oweh has left a vacuum on the wing, which Nwankwo should assist fill. Nwankwo, a 6-foot-6, explosive wing, averaged 18.6 points, 7.6 rebounds, two assists, and 1.9 steals per game at Cowley last season. He was a key member of the team that helped the program go 28-6 overall and advance to the NJCAA tournament’s second round. Last season, Nwankwo had a 48.9% field goal percentage, including a 37% 3-point shooting percentage on 5.4 attempts a game.
It represented a considerable improvement in productivity from his first season at Cowley, when he averaged 10.7 points and seven rebounds per game in 19 outings for the Tigers after an injury sidelined him for much of the fall semester. Following the 2022–2023 season, Nwankwo joined with Marist, then returned to Cowley to start all 34 of the team’s games the previous season.
Before spending two years at Cowley, the 6-foot-6, 210-pound player spent one season as a football player for the Tulane Green Wave at Tulane University. Formerly a three-star prospect coming out of high school, Nwankwo was a wide receiver at Tulane in 2021, albeit he did not play for the team while on a redshirt.
Nwankwo, a standout football player and All-District basketball player at Putnam North, made the decision to return to the hardwood, where in his two years at Cowley, he displayed his athleticism and impressive ceiling. He was named to the NJCAA First Team All-America team the previous season, and he still has two years left to be eligible to play at Oklahoma.
