Oku on NU: "I haven't heard from them"
David Oku told the Journal Star on Monday night that people should not read too much into the fact he moved to Lincoln to finish high school, and that he hasn't been in contact with Husker coaches in some time.
Enrolled at Lincoln East as of Monday, the highly-touted running back recruit said East is "a better school for me."
"Coming here also gives me extra classes that my other school (Carl Albert High School in Midwest City, Okla.) wouldn't offer me," he added.
He does have a girlfriend who goes to UNL, but he said he moved here because he thought the school would better prepare him for college.
"It had nothing to do with an emotional thing with a girlfriend. ... That had nothing to do with it. I've heard the craziest things, that she's pregnant and all this. No, no. I came here because of school."
On the topic of football, he said his coming here shouldn't lead people to think he's signing with Nebraska. All indications are that Nebraska has halted its recruiting of running backs for this class.
"I haven't heard anything from them," Oku said. "I heard reports I moved down here because I wanted to go to Nebraska. If that's the case, I would have signed my letter of intent. Don't get me wrong, Nebraska's a great school. But I haven't had contact with coaches or anything."
As for other potential schools?
"I don't have a leader at all, anything like that. My whole thing is I'm focused on school. I'm really not too worried about football right now. ... Recruiting's been dead really."