Daily Bullets (Aug. 5): Welcome to the League, Four Corners

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

A new face on the site – we’re excited to add Dekota Gregory in Kyle Boone’s slot, I like to think of it like Utah replacing Texas A&M.

One more note – today is Big 12 Media Day, you can tune in here (for free) at 1:15pm CST and hear from Mike Gundy, Chad Weiberg, and Cowboy football players

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Three Thoughts

• What a big day for the Big 12 – the league announced the official additions of the University of Utah, Arizona State University, and the University of Arizona (PFB)

• A timeline of one of the wilder days in college football history (PFB)

• Something (or the “thing) that helped seal the deal: Oregon and Washington committed to the Big Ten (PFB)

• It’s easy to get excited about Kendal Daniels on the backside of this defense (PFB)

• Two tweets that highlight aspects of the new league:

• Not ideal but plenty of rivalries
• This is the capital of parity in college football – could have five different winners in five year

• Former Cowboy Josh Sills was acquitted of rape and kidnapping this week (CBS Sports)

Two Quotes

• Mike Boynton chats about his last available scholarship:

“We’re always recruiting,” Boynton said. “When we get to 13, we’re not gonna stop recruiting. We won’t be over 13, but we won’t stop checking on leads or whatever. There’s a couple of guys that we’ve checked on here over the last couple of weeks. We won’t do anything before we leave for this trip but certainly once we get back we’ll have to make some pretty hardline decisions because school will start. That’s kind of your cutoff with where you are.”

[PFB]

• Pretty slick OSU Nikes for sale:

Now available in store and online!#okstate #gopokes

🔗 https://t.co/wqcmGS91Dc pic.twitter.com/w6ucI63HvO

— OSU Student Union (@OSUUnion) August 3, 2023

One Question

• Berry Tramel hones in on this – did Cowboy Football’s talent coming in match the talent going out through the portal?

Most Viewed of the Week

• No. 1 Arizona Board of Regents sets meeting for Tuesday

• No. 2 Kyle Boone’s PFB Goodbye

• No. 3 Arizona’s application accepted by Big 12

• No. 4 Projecting OSU’s offensive depth chart

• No. 5 Top five Mike Gundy quotes from fall camp day one

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Non-OSU Bullets

• A taxonomy of lousy male friends
• Sounds like something from Wendell Berry but solid take on rest (faith-based)

Like this idea:

Once a year we should all be beginners.

Pick something new and suck at it.

– Builds resiliency
– Sparks creativity
– Restores empathy

Nothing teaches like starting from zero.

— Dave Kline (@dklineii) August 3, 2023

This may be the darn cutest thing you see all week:

This video starts great and gets better and then peaks and then peaks again. pic.twitter.com/st2hVhF2CG

— Thinkwert (@Thinkwert) August 3, 2023