The wanted man

When you're the top junior college offensive lineman in the nation on the board, the pressure to make a decision can be intense. The pressure is magnified even further when you're being recruited by Bobby Bowden and Bob Stoops. But the end is near and a decision is forthcoming for four-star junior college offensive lineman Brandon Walker of Coffeyville (Kan.) Community College.

Walker will announce his decision to world Friday at 8:15 a.m. cst on Rivals Radio (http://rivalsradio.com). It's a decision that he's still wrestling with now, even though he's less than 48 hours from making his announcement.

"I don't think I know what I'm going to do," Walker, who is 6-foot-3 and 315 pounds, said. "Right now it's still about 50-50 between Oklahoma and Florida State. Tonight I'm going to pray on it, tomorrow I'm going to think about it, and then Friday I'm going to announce it on Rivals.com."

Walker said he's hoping to have all of his friends and family back home in Detroit listening to the broadcast, and there will be hundreds of Seminole and Sooner fans waiting on the big news. The announcement itself will be exciting, but making the eventual choice has been agonizing.

"Everybody in Coffeyville has an opinion and they're telling me about it," he said. "Since we're closer to Oklahoma, I get a lot of people telling me I should go to Oklahoma. I have to do what's best for me, though. They'll support me no matter what I do, but there's no question they want me to be a Sooner."

Walker went over the positives of each school one more time, talking about the Sooners first.

"Kevin Wilson has been recruiting me for a while, and he's probably built the best relationship of all the coaches recruiting me," he said. "He's just expressed they have a major need for offensive linemen and I could go down there and play right away. He's also done things the right way and made it clear to me that I'm an important guy for them.

At Florida State, Walker is being recruited by Kevin Steele, Rivals.com's 2005 recruiter of the year, and Mark McHale. Florida State also has plenty of positives that impress the nation's No. 12 juco player.

"They're also low on numbers, and they're talking about me coming in and playing right away," he said. "I want to be somewhere where I can play right away. Florida State has also got the warm weather, the ladies, and they're one of the all-time best programs out there."

Wilson from Oklahoma visited with Walker on Tuesday and the Florida State coaches were originally set to visit with him earlier this afternoon. But he did get a message on his cell phone telling him that Bobby Bowden will now visit with him on Friday morning before he's set to announce.

Walker, though, dismissed talk that the visit is a clue as to where he's leaning toward.

"I think he's just trying to get the last word," Walker said. "I wouldn't say that it's a clue as to what I'm thinking. I know the Florida State coaches said they knew I was announcing Friday morning, but I guess that was when it was best for them to get the head coach out there. I don't know if it'll make much of a difference, because I should have my mind made up by then."

Now the world just has to wait and see what that decision will be.