Daily Bullets (July 21)

Big 12 media days

Bob Bowlsby: “At the present time, I don’t think there’s critical mass for expansion. We spend at least a little time in every meeting talking about it. But until that majority shifts, it’s a purely academic conversation.” (NewsOK)

The Big 12 will also not mandate non-con schedules. (NewsOK)

Gundy talks at 11:50 today. You can follow along here. We will also have some sort of coverage. (Big 12 Sports)

Here’s the new slogan which sounds good but is also ripe for Kansas jokes.

Big 12 2015: "Every game matters" pic.twitter.com/M7UpY0GTDB

— Bob Przybylo (@BPrzybylo) July 20, 2015

The NCAA will distribute nearly $20 million for cost-of-attendance costs which sounds great until you break it down. (Yahoo)

This is crazy (and awesome).

Best nugget I've got from #Big12FB Media Days: David Beaty says his dad was one of the men around Lee Harvey Oswald when Oswald was shot.

— Guerin Emig (@GuerinEmig) July 20, 2015

Gerald Tracy is at media days and wrote down some notes. Good recap. (CRFF)

Crootin

OSU swiped somebody from Alabama and OU because Glenn Spencer is a boss. (PFB)

Shots heard across the nation, "Pistols Firing" from Collinsville, OK. Cowboys got better today. #WTIB

— Glenn Spencer (@Glenn_Spencer) July 20, 2015

He grew up an OU fan. (PFB)

Why Nick Starkel’s fanny pack is important. (PFB)

Dana doing Dana things

Dana said he’ll drink 1,000 Red Bulls before the end of the season. (CRFF)

Video via LGG

By an act from above … Red Bull girls showed up at #Big12MediaDays as Dana Holgorsen walked by. #Eers pic.twitter.com/GEHgSchJzA

— Nate Feken (@TheGreat_Nate) July 20, 2015

New contact rules

Big 12 limits days of contact per week to two days (which OSU has been doing for years). (NewsOK)

Bowlsby: “We believe it’s the right step, and we hope it will become the national rule,” Bowlsby said during his annual address to the media. “Even if it doesn’t, we think that that’s the right way to conduct our practices.” (NewsOK)

Ubben makes a good point here on this rule.

What we've learned today about the Big 12's new official contact rule: It's mostly cosmetic. Scoring easy PR points at almost no cost.

— David Ubben (@davidubben) July 20, 2015

Open Championship

Jordan Niebrugge finished in the top 10 and racked up the lowest score ever for an amateur at the Open at St. Andrews. (CBS)

He and Fowler were looking sharp.

Rickie Fowler and Jordan Niebrugge are showing off their #okstate colors at the Open today. pic.twitter.com/toDCJnBKhd

— Pistols Firing (@pistolsguys) July 20, 2015

I wrote about Spieth’s loss. (CBS)

More stuff I’m reading

“The ideal toy for a child is not a toy at all but something they’ve appropriated for play.” (Kleon)