Daily Bullets (Aug. 4): QBs, QBs, QBs

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Bullets Rundown

• QB1?
• On the friendly competition
• The ? of keeping up

OSU Bullets

• For nothing going on with the QB situation, there is a lot going on.

Gundy said he hasn’t had a discussion with Sanders and Brown about a two-quarterback system yet. He also said he still isn’t entirely sure how it would work. The two have similar skills sets, so it would be unlike the most recent time the Cowboys used two quarterbacks: Mason Rudolph and JW Walsh in 2015. Walsh was essentially a red zone quarterback that season, as he was more of a runner than the strong-armed Rudolph.

“That’s one thing I don’t have a good answer to,” Gundy said. “You know how you avoid things like with your wife. You’re like, ‘Eh, I don’t want to get into that unless I absolutely have to get into that.’ That’s kinda what I’m doing right now.” [PFB]

Big shocker here, but I have many opinions on the Brown-Sanders situation. I’ll probably write on them later today, but the gist: If it’s close — and you just said it is many, many times — I don’t understand not playing Sanders.

• Scott Wright did a good job on the friendly competition between Sanders and Brown.

There’s a line between intensely competing with each other and disliking each other. There’s also a line between a friendly competition and a dogfight. It seems Sanders and Brown have found the sweet spot where they can scratch and claw and battle for the Cowboys’ most coveted job, but walk off the field not feeling contempt for the other. [NewsOK]

It doesn’t really seem like a Rudolph-Walsh situation where — again, from an outsider looking in — it appeared as if Rudolph was annoyed by the fact that Walsh (at times) shared a field with him (justifiably so).

• Bill Haisten wrote recently about the cost of keeping up, and it’s great.

This is a certainty: The cost of competing will increase every year. Salaries and the operations budget will increase every year. Oklahoma State faces challenges in fundraising and in ticket sales. If an OSU fan had a household income of $50,000 in 2006, it might be no more than $60,000 today, and yet the money required to maintain OSU football has spiked at a much more dramatic rate. [Tulsa World]

It’s a great point that if you’re relying on ticket sales and your fan base to fund your trajectory, the math just doesn’t work. This isn’t an OSU problem, though. It’s an “everybody but OU and Alabama and Clemson” problem.

• Speaking of … Kasey Dunn got ?.

 As Dunn enters his ninth season at OSU and is the longest-tenured of Gundy’s staff members, he received a $140,000 raise and now makes $550,000. Dunn also was given the title of associate head coach. Each year that Dunn remains on the Cowboy staff, he gets a stay bonus of $50,000.

“I needed to take care of Dunn so that everybody would quit trying to hire him,” Gundy explained. “I have to do what’s reasonable and to pay (assistants) what’s fair, but also not blow it out of the water. [Tulsa World]

Last year this would have ranked Dunn on par with Georgia’s run game coordinator and Virginia’s offensive coordinator. So yeah, probably worth it.

• I love Calvin Bundage — nobody loves Bundage more than I do — but I’m in “I’ll believe it when I see it” mode with him.

Gundy said that Bundage and the rest of the Cowboys have all been told about their discipline. A few players already have been called out in practice for not having their lockers clean. Gundy expects to see where the team discipline stands once fatigue starts to kick in over the next four to six practices.

Bundage is confident that he can keep it all under control once he gets back out there.

“I know once I get on the field I’ll be 100% and I’ll be the best Calvin Bundage I’ve ever been at OSU,” Bundage said. [Tulsa World]

• The only good response to Baker chugging a beer.

Cant shake the big knock against big 12 Qbs- to reliant on the shotgun https://t.co/ac6mq0CP8A

— PFTCommenter (@PFTCommenter) August 4, 2019

• This is a very good promo.

Sep. 7 | 6:00 p.m. | Boone Pickens Stadium

Be there. ?️ https://t.co/v2zCZzFfo6 #okstate #GoPokes pic.twitter.com/8owZRNyDaB

— Cowboy Football (@CowboyFB) August 2, 2019

• Lol at Gundy here.

?: Lines as long as long as the eye can see to meet @CoachGundy during Fan Appreciation Day! #okstate pic.twitter.com/Lzp3XuXbA1

— DevinLawrenceWilber? (@DevinWilber) August 4, 2019

• Vik might be too good.

"Gosh, that's a bad fist pump" ?

Viktor Hovland breaks down his impressive round of 64 (and less impressive celebration skills) with @Amanda_Balionis. pic.twitter.com/507yebEX6o

— GOLFonCBS (@GOLFonCBS) August 3, 2019

• Remember LD!

• Mike Boynton weighs in on the El Paso and Ohio shootings.

So the Mayor of Dayton, OH said the shooting there is the 250th Mass Shooting in the country, THIS YEAR! My Goodness. Get your politics out of here.. We need SOLUTIONS… and God. ??

— Mike Boynton (@thacoachmike) August 4, 2019