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Offensive guard Zach Hannon (Kansas City, Mo./Rockhurst) knew the Oklahoma recruiting situation going into his unofficial visit to the Sooners' campus, but he didn’t care.

Hannon, 6-foot-4 and 295 pounds, said he was determined to see the OU campus in the spring and his mission was accomplished Friday.

But like the other interior linemen before him, Hannon left the campus with a lot of interest but no offer from the Sooners.

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Offensive lineman Zach Hannon (Kansas City, Mo./Rockhurst) was beginning to think he simply wasn’t meant to see Oklahoma. Several times in the past, Hannon had invitations or plans to see what the OU campus is all about but things fell through every time.

So this week something like a little mis-communication wasn’t going to be enough to keep him from making the trip to Norman, Okla., especially since he can't make OU’s spring game on April 14 because he is taking the ACT.

Hannon, 6-foot-4 and 295 pounds, spoke with OU offensive line coach James Patton last week about visiting OU this weekend. Hannon initially thought it was to watch an OU scrimmage, but the Sooners are not practicing this weekend.

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Even if a recruit doesn’t know much about the Oklahoma Sooners, he knows about their winning tradition. That was all offensive tackle Jake Campos (West Des Moines, Iowa/Valley) knew of the program before making an unofficial visit last week.

Following the visit, though, it wasn’t the football program that had Campos the most excited. After his first visit, it was the campus that left him excited about the Sooners.

“It’s a beautiful campus. The architecture was incredible,” Campos said. “For my first visit, it was even better than I expected. The buildings are beautiful.”

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Offensive tackle Dan Skipper (Arvada, Colo./Ralston Valley) has seen his interest pick up recently. His first offer came in January and things haven’t really slowed down.

Despite several offers, Skipper still hadn’t heard from one of his top five schools: Oklahoma. Instead of waiting around, he took the initiative and searched for OU offensive tackles coach Bruce Kittle on Facebook and sent him a message. That got the ball rolling for what has been an eventful few weeks for Skipper and the Sooners.

“OU has always been in my top five. I started sending messages and emails to schools and seeing who would respond,” Skipper said. “When you think of major college football in the Midwest, you think OU. I’ve grown up a Big 12 guy, and the Sooners are always there.”

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Offensive guard Rob Boyd (Vian, Okla./Vian) was saying all the right things leading up to Oklahoma’s junior day on Saturday.

It was a big opportunity for a recruit from a small town in Oklahoma to get a chance like this. He knew that, but he was trying to not put too much pressure on the visit.

Boyd tried to act like getting an OU offer wasn’t in the front of his mind. But when he didn’t get the elusive offer from the Sooners, the reality started to set in for Boyd, and he let it be known how much he was hoping to get that look from OU.

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