Daily Bullets (Dec. 3): Stability in Stillwater, Chuba Hubbard is Used to Earning Your Approval

Is OSU… Iowa?

Bullets Rundown

• Stability in Stillwater
• Chuba is used to earning your approval
• Boynton’s Cowboys back in the top-25

OSU Bullets

• When you think about the success that Mike Gundy has found in Stillwater, it’s not predicated by a regular shuffling of the coaching staff. He swaps coordinators every five years or so, giving folks time and putting them in a good situation for the most part.

At Oklahoma State, Mike Gundy has changed coordinators with regularity, but it’s rarely because he’s wanted someone gone. He’s lost several coordinators to other schools, but he’s only fired three coordinators, all on the defensive side. Vance Bedford was let go after the 2006 season, Bill Young after 2012, Glenn Spencer after 2017.

Three ousters in 15 years looks minuscule after what Herman did Sunday in Austin. [NewsOK]

I think Texas would love to have that kind of stability but as teams struggle to find success, a coordinator’s head has to roll to create a longer runway for a head coach.

• Chuba Hubbard sort of had a longer runway way into consideration for recruiting as Canadians seem to be given a second look only when it’s merited. Not unlike the way he had to really turn your head as a collegiate runner before he was considered for  big awards.

And the numbers were too absurd to ignore forever. Across three high school seasons, Hubbard rushed for 6,880 yards and 82 touchdowns. Playing Canadian football—on larger fields with 12 players per team rather than 11—he averaged more than 15 yards per carry.

He made his debut for the under-16 Football Alberta team in 2015 against Team USA at the Dallas Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium. That, coupled with a junior season in which he scored 40 touchdowns and accumulated more than 3,200 rushing yards, finally generated recruiting interest. [Bleacher Report]

• Mike Boynton’s Cowboys have climbed into the Coaches’ top 25 for the first time in a while.

The last time the Cowboys were ranked in the Coaches Poll was also the last time they started 7-0 in 2014-15. That was Travis Ford’s penultimate year, but that group didn’t climb into the rankings until the Week 9 poll in mid January. [PFB]

• Great insight from Grayson Boomer on why he’s leaving Stillwater

• There are plenty of Pokes on this All-Big 12-team:

Here is the Team of the Year in the Big 12 on offense!https://t.co/l6TBMX7iQr pic.twitter.com/53IVXziAOq

— PFF College (@PFF_College) December 3, 2019

• This is one of those Bo Pelini at Nebraska scenarios where a school is a lot worse off without a coach than they are with him.

Source close to #Washington's Chris Petersen tells me he has no health issues or family issues that caused the decision. The season wore on him, and he needs a chance to step away. His new administrative role should focus on leadership development for coaches and others.

— Adam Rittenberg (@ESPNRittenberg) December 2, 2019

Non-OSU Bullets

• Stop trying to raise “successful” kids
• Finished this somber fiction read about a British guy who isolates himself but learns to connect with others. Melancholy but good.
• A brief history of the crockpot