Stinks/doesn’t stink: All-SEC Title Game, OSU Hoops and Offseason QB Uncertainty

Your favorite column created for the sole purpose of determining whether the week’s hot topic stinks or does not is back, talking an all-SEC title game, OSU hoops and more.

Let’s do it.

All SEC title game

This is one I debated pretty heavily with in my head.

On one hand, Oklahoma losing in the national semi’s was so, so gratifying. But on the other hand, an all-SEC title game will have the insufferable SEC truthers coming out of the wood works in full force.

So then the question becomes: Which can I not stand more?

OU in the title game would’ve been brutal. But unfortunately, I’ve got nightmares of the “It Just Means More” commercial narrated by Clay Travis on loop in my head thanks to Clemson and OU laying eggs in the first round of the playoffs.

That is … not ideal. An all SEC title game isn’t either.

Verdict: Stinks

OSU Hoops

With a 10-2 non-league record, I was one of a handful of people ready to jump ship on the Pokes for 2017-18.

To be more specific: I don’t think this team is very good.

It has nothing to do with my thoughts on Mike Boynton (I’m all in!), but more to do with the sting of losing Jawun + Forte and the inevitability of a decline/rebuild under a new coaching regime.

But gosh darn, this team might not be as bad as we all think. And how can you not love this?

Always appreciate Mike Boynton’s candor. No different tonight. “I think everybody’s surprised that we don’t look horrible. I think that’s kind of like, what everybody’s waiting, like, why does this team not suck? I don’t buy into that. I think we’re pretty good.” #okstate pic.twitter.com/pcvcIRGk15

— Mark Cooper (@mark_cooperjr) December 30, 2017

Maybe OSU goes winless in league play (I doubt it), and maybe it squeezes into the NCAAs (I also doubt it), but this team isn’t near as bad as what myself and many others pegged. If this is the worst team in the Big 12, then this might be the deepest the league has ever been.

Verdict: Doesn’t stink

Offseason QB uncertainty

For the first time in what feels like eons, Oklahoma State enters the offseason with a question mark at quarterback. No mas Mason Rudolph.

Is this good, or bad?

It would be ludicrous to say OSU won’t miss No. 2 sorely next season, and we as fans would take him back in a heart beat. But I, for one, am thrilled for a new Spencer Sanders era.

We (generally) knew what OSU would be under Mason Rudolph. But what will OSU be under Taylor Cornelius? What about Keondre Wudtee? Or Spencer Sanders? No one has any idea. Maybe they all stink and OSU wins 4 games in 2018. But maybe, just maybe, OSU catches lightning in a bottle and OSU’s offense clicks in a way it never did under Rudolph.

That’s an insane thing to say. But the beauty of uncertainty is that it allows you to dream. I’m thrilled about the past, but ready for the future — even if QB1 isn’t etched into stone for 2018.

Verdict: Doesn’t stink