Daily Bullets (Apr. 22): Quarterback Crowd Starts to Thin

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

OSU Bullets

• The Pokes added a commitment yesterday from a four-star defensive back coming out of high school yesterday (PFB)

• Doug Gottlieb landed a first-team NJCAA All-American to help him rebuild in Green Bay (CBS Sports)

• Cowboy quarterback Maealiuaki Smith entered the transfer portal yesterday, and here’s Berry Tramel’s prediction on the quarterbacks before the transfer news broke:

That’s another reason why I say (Hauss) Hejny and (Garrett) Rangel are ahead of the pack. If you don’t have a ‘slinger, better have a runner. Or two, since the runners get nicked quite frequently, and they won’t receive the protection they received Saturday…[TulsaWorld]

• First 500 fans into O’Brate Stadium for tonight’s game against DBU get blackout t-shirts (X)

• Cowgirls added a new center for the next year: 

NEWS: 25′ Nigerian Center 🇳🇬 Favour Onoh is committing to Oklahoma State (@OSUWBB) & Head Coach Jacie Hoyt (@CoachJacie) sources tell @BTNScouting .

The 6-5 Center will bring physicality & size to the OSU squad! Big pickup for Coach Hoyt & ton of high level programs inquired… pic.twitter.com/5MT893oUNO

— BTN Scouting (@BTNScouting) April 21, 2025

Non-OSU Bullets

•  What most Americans remember about high school

• Thunder 2025 draft pick updates 

• John Piper answers a big (faith) question – will Heaven ever grow bored?

The stats on men’s basketball players that enter the portal at the Power 4/Big East level and the outcomes most likely are wild: 

At the highest competition level in this study (Tier 1), the Power 4 conferences and the Big East, 70% of student- athletes who entered the portal transferred down or did not find a new home. At the lowest competition level in this study (Tier 3), which was the majority of DI programs, 61% of student-athletes who entered the portal transferred down or did not find a new home. For those student-athletes, the only down transfer destinations are programs outside of Division I.

To put it another way, the study found that roughly 7% of the players who transferred out of a Tier 3 program found their way to a Tier 1 program. Only about 16% of Tier 2 transfer players moved to a Tier 1 league.

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