Daily Bullets (Aug. 26): Treasuring Hunziker, Contributors Wanted Across from Tylan

Game week – let’s all start getting an extra hour or two of sleep every night to prep for Friday. That works, right?

Bullets Rundown

• Treasuring Hunziker
• Contributors wanted across from Wallace
• Hovland clinched his tour card

OSU Bullets

• These comments outlining the incredible job the radio voice of the Cowboys Dave Hunziker has done in Stillwater are spot on.

“He had a tough job following Bill (Teegins), because everybody liked Bill,” (Mike) Gundy said. “Bill was special. And he (Hunziker) came in and really, to a certain extent, was like the redheaded stepchild for awhile. Now he’s really taken that over. He’s really become kind of the face. Just kind of everybody’s favorite now.”

Hunziker says he was clueless to any trepidation from the fans.

“I think it would have been a lot harder at most other places,” Hunziker said. “People here are so thoughtful; they were very supportive. They’re so thoughtful here. A lot of people said, ‘Hey, we’re behind you.’” [NewsOK]

Those comments run parallel – I think Hunziker is being genuine when he raves about the people at and around Oklahoma State and that’s why he fits so well.

I think that’s why people like to follow OSU. Call me naive – folks just love good sports teams – but I think there are certain characteristics (#goodpeople namely) that fit OSU and those who follow it.

• Lining up opposite Tylan Wallace is a new name this year – South Alabama graduate transfer Jordan McCray. McCray appears to be leading for the starting role (per the depth chart released) and he provides the Pokes with some coveted experience. 

At 6-foot-6, 187 pounds, McCray has been lumped in with the “basketball team” – as Cowboy coach Mike Gundy refers to them – that will play the X-receiver position – along with Patrick McKaufman and C.J. Moore – opposite star receiver Tylan Wallace.

While McCray – who is not available to the media due to a program rule not allowing access to first-year players – is new to the OSU system, its the experience he has that is making him a viable option for playing time at a spot where Wallace is the only X-receiver with any significant playing time.

“We don’t know what we’re going to get there, because none of those guys have played,” Gundy said. [Newspress]

Prior performance is widely held in most fields to be the best indicator of future success – and McCray is the only one who has much to speak of. It’ll be fun to see what he can do with stronger quarterback play.

Porter mentioned in the latest podcast that OSU’s wide receiver depth may be overrated… Unless somebody on “the basketball team” emerges as a serious contributor, Tylan Wallace and the slot receivers could be in line for all the catches they can handle.

• So yesterday, Cowboy alum Viktor Hovland landed his PGA tour card for the 2019-2020 year… but there’s still a bit more work to do.

As of now, the Norwegian phenom’s 2019-20 tour doesn’t make him fully exempt, as he could be subject to periodic reshuffles which could keep him out of some events. However, the Boise Open was the second even in a three-event Korn Ferry Finals. If Hovland finishes the three-event stretch with the most points, he would be fully exempt. He is in third in the points race as it stands.

The Korn Ferry Tour Championship is next weekend at Victoria National in Indiana. [PFB]

• How do transfer quarterbacks perform at their new schools?

• The Good Lord only makes so many humans who can do stuff like this.

?@JamesWashington pic.twitter.com/dVMrTasp2d

— Pittsburgh Steelers (@steelers) August 25, 2019

• Tough break here for the Wildcats – but endings like this make football fun.

Folks, we already spoiled the season. Nothing is going to be better than this in any way. pic.twitter.com/jNDN0ut72m

— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) August 25, 2019

Non-OSU Bullets

• Why we need to embrace boredom

• Tramel blogged about his Seattle trip (before eventually heading to Corvallis, OR)

• Finished this fantastic read on marriage over the weekend – faith-based look at how to actively engage your spouse better