Daily Bullets
Daily Bullets (Aug. 28): Overlooked Element of the QB Battle, Cowboy Back Hangs up his Cleats
Bullets Rundown
• Cowboy Back retires from the game
• An overlooked variable in the QB battle
• Easy travels for the Hubbard family
OSU Bullets
• It was released this week that freshman Cowboy Back Grayson Boomer would spend the year recovering from a torn ACL – also noted was the end of Cowboy Back Jake Ross’ career.
Junior Jake Ross’ time at Oklahoma State has been marred by injuries, and the Coweta native has left the team.
The 6-foot-6, 240-pound Ross joined the Cowboys in January 2018, after transferring from Northeastern Oklahoma A&M.
Ross was limited by injuries through spring and redshirted last fall. He remains in school at Oklahoma State. [NewsOK]
How disappointing for this young man – on the bright side, there are few places in the country you can enjoy being a student than Stillwater, right?
• A lot of time has been spent parsing out who’s better between Dru Brown and Spencer Sanders – but there is another variable more often overlooked in the equation.
If (Mike) Gundy, who knows a thing or two about offensive football, professes faith in (Sean) Gleeson, perhaps we all should. Perhaps we should refer back to the fact that Gleeson played more than one quarterback at Princeton, and that he didn’t do it to be, in his word, “gimmicky.”
“It wasn’t something where we were trying to fool people,” he said last month. “It was because we had quarterbacks who were talented and worked their tail off and deserved an opportunity to get on the field, just as if we were playing two tight ends at the same time.” [TulsaWorld]
• The (Chuba) Hubbard family will be just a hop, skip, and a jump away from home when the Pokes suit up Friday in Oregon… relatively speaking.
You see Chuba’s mother Candace Hubbard will only have to travel a little over 17 hours and 1,046-miles to get from Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada to Oregon State. That’s opposed to a 28 hour trip covering 2,751-miles if she and her husband were to travel to Stillwater for a home game. If Chuba sticks around for his senior season in 2021 then there is a slightly closer opportunity with the return game to Boise State. [GoPokes]
• The “Week 0” game is a massive win for TV companies – I’d be all for OSU playing in it. Give me Boise or Arkansas a week early.
• PFF’s analytics look solid to me – Chuba and Tylan are just phenomenal college football players.
The Cowboys have a chance to make some noise in the Big 12. pic.twitter.com/LmDLrDt7KK
— PFF College (@PFF_College) August 27, 2019
• TCU’s QB situation is fascinating and seems like a very viable path for the OSU situation to follow. The Frogs named the grad transfer senior the starter but planning on mixing in the talented freshman – under an assumption the freshman will take over during the course of the season.
My guess is that it's not even a competition but that they're leaning on Delton to help them through the early games while they ease Duggan into the starting role. At which point Delton becomes the back-up and perhaps Wildcat trigger-man. https://t.co/GT90NsTTdC
— Asst to the Minister of Culture (@Ian_A_Boyd) August 27, 2019
• Major whiff on my part here earlier this week – OSU sports with the spot-on “Parks and Recreation” (tv show) reference here:
Coming soon to a H̶a̶r̶v̶e̶s̶t̶ ̶F̶e̶s̶t̶i̶v̶a̶l̶ game day near you… ?
Bullet’s sidekick, BB, will be part of the Pistol Pete’s Partners experience! #okstate #GoPokes pic.twitter.com/JV4b5qfYsi
— Oklahoma State Athletics (@OSUAthletics) August 26, 2019
Non-OSU Bullets
• Some solid thoughts on leadership here – I’ll struggle to implement listening more than talking but will be working on it
• Really good faith-based look at wisdom and the skill of “living in the future”
• After reading one of his books, George Plimpton’s “participatory journalism” is such a cool concept that can’t possibly be emulated today
• Just because you won doesn’t mean you did a good job
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