Cache

On next week's recruiting report, here's what you can look forward to.

This Thursday night, I'm gonna be down in Cache, America, watching Oklahoma wide receiver target Kenyon Sweat.

Our producer Andrew West, an alumnus of Elgin High School, noted rival of the Cache Bulldogs, is quite unhappy about this.

I think he'll learn to like young Mr.

Sweat, but the territorialism is still at play there.

He is now pointing out in my ear that Elgin did defeat Cache decidedly, handily-

That-

... earlier this season

It was at, uh, Crater.

Or was it Eagle Park in Cache?

Okay.

It was in Cache.

Yeah.

So we did go.

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He came from 14 years of meth addiction, being shot twice, losing his daughter to the state and eventually finding his way into a Christ-centered rehab program in Cache, Oklahoma, where he stayed for 17 months and started over from nothing.

When he got out, went to work doing maintenance at a nursing home, fixing toilets for a living, and then a friend showed him how to get a real estate license.

Three and a half years later, he became an icon agent at eXp, top 250 nationally, 47 transactions closed in 2025.

My insurance was like, hey, you're good to go after two weeks.

And I was like, no, I'm not good to go.

So I called down to Adult and Teen Challenge in Cache, Oklahoma.

Lauren Scheffler was a program director and he said, I've got a bed for you.

A Lawton, Oklahoma native and Lawton-Eisenhower graduate, Whiteley played his college baseball at Hutchinson Community College before finishing his playing career at Cameron University.

Whiteley then began his coaching career in his hometown before taking his first head coaching position at Cache High School.

In 2017, Whiteley arrived at Carl Albert as an assistant baseball and football coach.

He spent four years learning under longtime Titans head coach Tim LaValle, along with fellow assistant Tony Borm, before taking over the program.

I was kind of that guy that, you know, was charting things and doing that stuff.

And, you know, I think that's, Something, too, when you said, you know, things you learn, I think there's a lot of things you can learn from different types of charts, you know.

You know, from the charts that we did at Cache to when I come up here and started working with Coach LaValle, I think there's a lot of things different that we did as far as just charting stuff that, you know, I picked up on as well.

But, yeah, I mean, it's changed some.

In a lot of cases, that's not true, even these days.

And I had a very insightful conversation with Kenyon Sweat last night, the speedy wide receiver from Cache, Oklahoma, who was in town over the weekend.

And that interview is posted in its entirety at Soonerscoop.com for subscribers over there.

But I think the most poignant thing he said, and this is a tremendous example of a kid who runs toward the fire.