Daily Bullets (July 19): Pokes in the Draft Update, Pac-12 Merger Off the Table, NBC Talks Ongoing?

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

OSU Bullets

• While this is a terrific argument for a Big 12/Pac-12 merger based on both conferences’ needs, news broke last night that the Big 12 has ended the conversation with the Pac-12 about leagues merging.

The general consensus is that the Big 12 will be poaching Pac-12 teams at this point.

I’ll take a lap and note this was my comment yesterday on the Bullets :): “It seems like the best thing for the Big 12 is to add four to six Pac-12 teams, namely some schools that are the best teams in their states that bring TVs”

• Another interesting realignment update: it’s rumored that the Big 12 is in the conversation for Notre Dame’s “shoulder programming” (games on either side of Notre Dame’s games on NBC) – here’s the original report

• MLB Draft Update:
– Cowboy signee Jackson Holliday went first overall
– Cowboy pitcher Justin Campbell went late in the first
– Here’s where everybody else went

Also – the Stillwater Regional games against Arkansas just keep getting more epic. 15 pros through ten rounds in those games!

• OSU added a four-star athlete yesterday via a current commit adding a fourth-star

• Moussa Cisse gives OSU one of the top-20 frontcourts in college basketball

• Some leftover quotes from Mike Gundy’s comments at Big 12 Media Days

• Spencer Sanders was named to the Maxwell watchlist

• Center field has been filled in for the new turf at Boone Pickens Stadium:

Non-OSU Bullets

• Lego is releasing a set that’s Office-themed
• Most relaxing vacation spots in the US
• How to fail at most everything and still win