Daily Bullets (Apr. 27): Reasons for Mike Gundy’s Best Spring Yet

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Scores

Men’s Golf: Pokes in 2nd through Day One

OSU Bullets

• Liked this comment by Mike Gundy about having his son (freshman quarterback Gunnar Gundy) out there with him:

“If a parent says they wouldn’t enjoy being around their child four hours a day in a working environment,” Gundy said, “I would have a hard time believing that. I’m enjoying (Gunnar) being out here.”

[TulsaWorld]

• Bill Haisten sorted through Mike Gundy’s remarks about why the spring was his best one yet

• This tidbit from the spring game about the quarterback play sticks out – Shane Illingworth threw some dimes. Marshall caught the same vibe about the sophomore as well.

Sophomore Shane Illingworth started out a bit slow, but made some high-quality throws, including a contested 25-yard back-shoulder fade to Jaden Bray for the game’s first touchdown. Illingworth later hit redshirt freshman Rashod Owens for a 61-yard bomb. The ball was almost overthrown, but Owens made a great grab with his stretched-out arms.

[Go Pokes $$$]

• Pokes made the cut for a guard in the transfer portal from UGA

• Here’s a Q&A with a 2023 Texas quarterback that the Pokes offered early

• Lots of young receivers got reps this spring – something that should payoff in the fall

• Paul Finebaum speculates College Football Playoff will expand – and expand soon

Non-OSU Bullets

• The pandemic shrank social circles – this piece proposes to keep it that way
• Spotify turns 15 years old – and how it changed the music industry
• Here’s a pretty solid graduation gift guide
• Broke my heart to see that this writer for The Ringer has cancer

“My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.”

Ernest Hemingway