Daily Bullets (July 8): Let’s Talk Spencer Sanders Expectations, Two Pokes on All-Big 12 Team

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OSU Bullets

• A couple of Pokes made the preseason All-Big 12 teams. On a related note, pretty unimpressive that Tre Sterling wasn’t on there with KHP:

• Love this take on Spencer Sanders going into the season – particularly the part about “expectations”:

And after competing in 20 games the last two seasons, experience and reps should be an asset to (Sanders) instead of an alibi for errant decision-making. The expectation in Stillwater is that he’s primed for a leap. OSU’s title hopes in 2021 might hinge on it.

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• While the Detroit Pistons are doing their due diligence at the top of the draft, ESPN’s premier draft analyst has strong feelings about Cade Cunningham’s chances of going No. 1:

…(W)ould the Pistons really pass on Cunningham if the draft were tonight? I still think the answer is no. I would put Cunningham as the overwhelming favorite to end up in Detroit at that spot still, which, by the way, I’ve been told he would be very excited about. 

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• Carson and Colby talk Cowboy recruiting and the start of the Chad Weiberg era in the latest pod:

• Two former Pokes are registered for and still have a chance to qualify for the World Championships this month

• Absurd to me that this CFB analyst doesn’t have Mike Gundy as one of the top 20 coaches in the game

• Ten years from now, a good portion of us will remember that “best third down % in the country” number the same way we remember how the 2011 defense led the nation in turnovers.

• More “Oklahoma” than “Oklahoma State” but fun that ORU star Max Abmas is returning for another year at ORU:

Non-OSU Bullets

• Four hour workweek was an “overwhelming success” in Iceland – they’re just trying to recover from all the bad publicity from Mighty Ducks 2
• How to gain more from your reading

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