OU stayed the course with Tank Carrington, and it paid off

Tank Carrington committed to Florida State in June, and that was that. The Seminoles had been the only official visit destination over the summer for the 6-foot-2, 272-pound defensive tackle. His recruitment seemed pretty cut-and-dried, and definitively over. But Todd Bates never gave up the fight. And in the end, the Sooners' revered defensive tackles coach won.