Daily Bullets (Dec. 20): Most Exciting Assistant, Will Mestemaker Pick the Pokes?

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

Three Thoughts

• Reportedly (not by the university), another coach has been added to the OSU staff – if you’re giving out grades, defensive coordinator Skylar Cassity feels like the assistant coach with the most excitement given his turnarounds (PFB) 

• Bummer to see the one (really) familiar face on the Cowboy Basketball roster out for the season (PFB)

• Will Drew Mestemaker follow Eric Morris? He’s on “lists” of most, if not all, schools that need to replace their QB1. This article points out familiarity and reasonable expectations with NFL upside as the reason he should pick the Pokes:

However, there’s something to be said for familiarity and walking into a program that has reasonable expectations but can still showcase you to NFL teams. Mestemaker already knows Morris’ system, so there’d be no learning curve in the summer. He’d also be taking over as the starting quarterback for a team that went 4-20 in the last two seasons, so even five or six wins would be a massive improvement. [Yahoo Sports]

Two Quotes

• Love how Steve Lutz is getting after these guys:

“We’ve always spent a lot of time in the film, but this is now bone on bone, man on man, who’s gonna stop the other person?” Lutz said Tuesday. “That’s where we’re at. All the schemes and all the vernacular that we use, it doesn’t matter if you don’t guard the basketball. It doesn’t matter if you don’t go box out your opponent and get the dang ball. It doesn’t matter, so we’re back to the basics of the physical, every possession, grind-it-out defense. That’s where we’re at.” [PFB]

• Also, love these Big 12 summaries of basketball games:

One Question

• How would you grade the new OSU coaching staff so far? (see it at the bottom of this article)

Non-OSU Bullets

• Sign me up for the Nate Bargatze movie

Love this aspirational Charlie Munger quote: 

“I have what I call an ‘iron prescription’ that helps me keep sane when I drift toward preferring one intense ideology over another. I feel that I’m not entitled to have an opinion unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who are in opposition. I think that I’m qualified to speak only when I’ve reached that state…

“That is probably too tough for most people, although I hope it won’t ever become too tough for me… This business of not drifting into extreme ideology is very, very important in life. If you want to end up wise, heavy ideology is very likely to prevent that outcome.”​

 

Macaulay Culkin on SNL must have been fun: 

Macaulay Culkin’s 1991 cold open from SNL spoofing HOME ALONE 👏 so good pic.twitter.com/iwY5Z4ND55

— Todd Spence (@Todd_Spence) December 19, 2025