Husker recruit Freeman to visit Oklahoma
BY MITCH SHERMAN
WORLD-HERALD BUREAU
LINCOLN - Nebraska quarterback recruit Josh Freeman said Sunday he's "still 100 percent committed" to the Huskers despite planning a visit this month to Oklahoma.
Freeman, the 6-foot-6, 230-pound senior at Grandview High School in Kansas City, Mo., who pledged to NU in June, said nothing has changed about his plan to start school at NU in less than two months.
At the urging of OU coaches, Freeman said he will watch the Sooners host Oklahoma State on Nov. 26.
"We just want to check it out," he said.
His father, Ron Freeman, will also make the trip to Norman. In addition to the Oklahoma campus, they want to see OSU wide receiver Seth Newton, a friend of the younger Freeman. Newton is a redshirt freshman from Girard, Kan., whose father played football at Pittsburg State (Kan.) several years before Ron Freeman.
The Sooners recently intensified their interest in Freeman as they try to add depth behind redshirt freshman starter Rhett Bomar. OU has received an oral commitment from QB Sam Bradford of Oklahoma City among its highly rated class of recruits.
Freeman said he has not told the Nebraska coaches of his planned trip but that he would have no problem sharing the information with recruiting coordinator Scott Downing.
The Huskers are not known to have pursued any quarterbacks for the recruiting class of 2006 since Freeman committed more than five months ago. Freeman, after enrolling at NU to start classes Jan. 9, would begin practice in March.
The burning Saturday of Harrison Beck's redshirt would ensure that Freeman enter next season as the only freshman quarterback on scholarship.
Freeman completed his senior season Wednesday in Grandview's 40-13 loss to Lee's Summit West in a Class 4 Missouri sectional game. He said he finished the year with 2,894 yards passing and 32 touchdowns.
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SIDE NOTE: Fat Travis said that he saw Freeman wearing a Mizzou shirt at the NU-Mizzou game.