Daily Bullets (Nov. 18): Surviving a Tough Season, Where to Look for Replacements

Thanks for stopping by – here’s your daily dose of Oklahoma State sports news.

OSU Bullets

• All the ways OSU fans are surviving a miserable season (ESPN)

• OSU’s Thanksgiving weekend game had its kickoff time announced yesterday (PFB)

• Berry Tramel advises OSU to check out the new cradle of coaches, the American, to fill it’s coaching opening – GoPokes 247 had some solid nuggets in their latest update on the coaching search:

…(H)ead coach Alex Golesh becomes more available and is expected to be the top candidate, GoPokes has learned. (GoPokes 247 $$$)

• What a weird world it must be for college athletes playing in 2025 – just listen to starting tackle Grant Seagren/current transfer portal entrant:

“While I am in the portal, I got an agent for that whole process,” Seagren said. “I haven’t had a single conversation really with any teams or anybody like that. The goal is to always come back. It’s kind of like having car insurance — just because you have it doesn’t mean you want to go wreck your car.”

It’s the biggest sign of the times in the modern landscape that, essentially, free agents are playing on teams…” [PFB]

• First step was made in the coaching carousel yesterday with James Franklin getting the job at Virginia Tech (ESPN) 

•  You can get access to Mike Gundy through the website Cameo again: 

Pay me and I’ll talk to you guys. Love it. First official news from @CoachGundy and it’s this. pic.twitter.com/PF0yDxSdBG

— mfa6677 (@mfa6677) November 17, 2025

Non-OSU Bullets

• A cure for writer’s block: writing on baseballs

• Falling asleep is like plunging off a cliff