Daily Bullets (Dec. 16): Texas Bowl Talk, Is Javon Small a Star?

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

Three Thoughts

• USAToday has the Texas Bowl as the 13th-most intriguing bowl game – if it’s not a high-stakes game, you want matchups. Had Texas A&M linebacker Edgerrin Cooper not declared for the draft earlier this week, there could of been a high profile matchup between he and Ollie Gordon (USAToday + CBS Sports)

• A little bit depressing but it’s not crazy to think OSU is wasting Javon Small – you know what the Cowboys could use? A scoring big man . (O’Colly + ESPN)

Kalib Boone with the exclamation point for @TheRunninRebels 😤 pic.twitter.com/oG5raHTDDN

— CBS Sports College Basketball 🏀 (@CBSSportsCBB) December 14, 2023

• Watching Mike Gundy coach against Jimbo Fisher (for the first time since the 2014 season opener) would of been fun – is the unpredictability of the interim coached Aggies similiarly compelling? 

“We have no idea what they’re gonna do,” Gundy said. “We don’t have any idea what they’re gonna do. They play three down, they play four down. They play man, they play zone. The coordinator’s not there on either side of the ball…”

[PFB]

Two Quotes

• Hard to see Mike Gundy being wrong on this one – predicting contracts with players: 

"At some point, somebody smarter than me is gonna figure out that we have to have contracts, have to have transparency to move forward."

Mike Gundy looks into his crystal ball and sees big time CFB looking a lot like a Junior NFL soon. pic.twitter.com/psWiwVlBHb

— Cayden McFarland (@caydenmc) December 15, 2023

• Pretty solid finishes here: 

Oklahoma State Big 12 placements:

2010- 2nd
2011- 1st
2012- 4th
2013- 3rd
2014-7th
2015- 2nd
2016- 2nd
2017- 3rd
2018- 7th
2019- 3rd
2020- 3rd
2021- 2nd
2022- 5th
2023- 2nd pic.twitter.com/NZBDBUjCUS

— Zachary (@osuzack) December 15, 2023

One Question

• If you could add a player that plays at the level Nick Martin plays at linebacker at their respecitve position – what would you add in the portal? 

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• Five reasons not to follow your heart (faith-based)

Always have the difficult conversation. I still can't do it without tensing up and choking down the occasional stutter. But "how it goes" never actually mattered. It's the act itself, embracing discomfort to remind your subconscious that your self respect is unequivocally intact

— du (@thedulab) November 1, 2023