Daily Bullets (Oct. 6): How Corndog (Surprisingly) Got to Stillwater

Late night for me so shorty Bullets today ahead of the Iowa State game.

Duffie’s Role in Crootin Corndog

Good stuff here by Jenni Carlson on how Tim Duffie (of all people!) helped get Corndog to Stillwater.

But Duffie’s previous experience with Bushland recruits being hardworking, team-first players who also happened to be really good, he felt good about taking Cornelius’ name to offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Mike Yurich.

Cornelius is part of this team, though, because of a cornerbacks coach who wasn’t scared to speak up, because of a recruiting pipeline that had first been built from the Texas Panhandle to the Colorado Rockies, because of unexpected prologue to an already unbelievable saga. [NewsOK – $]

How Hard is Selecting Playoff Teams?

Good column here by Hallie Hart on participating in a mock playoff picking. It’s not easy, obviously, and this paragraph is sort of the crux of why CFB is both so great and also why there has to be a merit-based system to give us an eight-team playoff.

It’s almost like completing a logic puzzle, one of those problems where Mary has to stand in line behind Joe but in front of Tom, and Sarah is first in line, and you have to put them all in order. This is more difficult because there isn’t one correct way to rank 25 teams. The team that won more games had a significantly weaker schedule than the one that lost four. The team that had the strongest offense among four might have ranked lowest in the defensive categories. Where were we supposed to put UCF, a team that won its conference championship but had a fairly easy path to the title in the American Athletic Conference? [O’Colly]

OSU and NCAA News

OSU loses to Texas Tech in soccer … Gundy has no answers for home woes … Why Berry is Picking Iowa State … Good stuff here on Jenkins’ move to left tackle.

This is awesome.

Former #okstate and NFL player Shamiel Gary has settled into motivational speaking across the country along with writing children's books in his post-football career. Here's why he chose to pursue motivational speaking. pic.twitter.com/9lAuPgngeJ

— Harold R. Kuntz (@HaroldRKuntz3) October 5, 2018

This is also awesome.

Great morning out here @BostonGolfClub with Mike, Drama, Bob and @Morgan_Hoffmann — so inspired by what he’s done with the #MorganHoffmannFoundation. ⛳️? pic.twitter.com/6PF8zQgo2E

— Mark Wahlberg (@markwahlberg) October 5, 2018

Preach!

The original Big 12 was the best, most well-rounded conference that suffered from a fatal lack of self-esteem. All four teams that left had it better in the Big 12 than they do elsewhere.

— Zach Barnett (@zach_barnett) October 6, 2018

Yo.

#okstate pledge Xavier Player will be on campus tomorrow. https://t.co/ZvSG2J2rTn

— Kyle Boone (@PFBoone) October 5, 2018

What You Missed on PFB

• A path to a relevant November exists for OSU
• New pod is up, ISU picks are in
• Good stuff here from Goose on the biggest key to today’s game
• On Enoch Smith filling the Darrion-shaped void at DT
• What’s right and wrong with OSU’s special teams in 2018
• Comparing the careers of Barry and Justice

More Stuff I’m Reading

This on customer service is awesome.