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Daily Bullets (July 28): Is the Oklahoma State QB Battle for Real?

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Heading up to Oklahoma today for some mini golf with the #squad on Sunday and some actual golf with the OSU coaches on Monday. Looking forward to both and expect to be well over par on both days. Apologies to the PGA Tour, but I am not living under par in any way.

Bullets Rundown

• On Dru and Spencer
• More on Dru and Spencer
• Charlie Dickey can recruit

OSU Bullets

• Robert Allen says the QB battle in Stillwater is real.

Coach-speak? I thought it might be. Sanders is taller, faster and more athletic, has one of the strongest arms to come through Stillwater, so I thought all along that surely it will be Sanders. However, I’ve watched a couple of the summer workouts. I have run into and spoke with some of the players and with Gleeson. I have compared notes with other observers. Folks, this is a competition. [Go Pokes]

I don’t think he’s wrong. In fact, I’m worried he’s right. It’s not that Dru Brown is lousy or wouldn’t be good for OSU. It’s that I think Gundy is smart, and if you’re smart you’re going to play the younger guy if he’s even close to as good as the older one. So that’s disconcerting for the future of OSU football.

• The QB features were interesting: Sanders | Brown. My biggest takeaway from Sanders was him bringing up last year and how he knows people wanted him to play but he felt like it was important to develop as a leader for that season. My biggest takeaway from Brown was probably the appeal to QBs looking for a quick bounce into … what … pro football? Life after football? It’s one of several, but it’s one of the best in terms of schools that can tout big-time offense.

• Here’s a nice little recruiting nugget that portends for a good future with Charlie Dickey.

About a year ago, Pullen met Dickey during a visit to Kansas State, where Dickey previously coached. Dickey said he envisioned Pullen as a center or a guard but imagined him practicing each O-line position so he could fill in for someone if needed. Pullen said he appreciated this blueprint for his future, which he also expects to follow as a Cowboy.

“He and Coach Dickey hit it off in the recruiting process very early on,” Anderson said. “And I think if Coach Dickey would have went to anywhere else in the country, Trent would have been right there. Their relationship’s second to none.” [NewsOK]

• Berry Tramel wades into the Tyreek waters and does it well. I don’t know if we’re allowed to talk about Tyreek or not yet, but boy is it easy to sidle up next to some pretty gross behavior when the person participating in that gross behavior runs a real 4.3.

Of the many words you can use to describe Hill’s return, “comfortable” would be at the bottom of many lists.

Perhaps the Chiefs will be fine. Perhaps Hill, who is playing for a lucrative contract extension, will be on his best behavior. Perhaps their electric style will find a way again to overshadow their character concerns. But they won’t always be comfortable to watch. They won’t be fun and carefree. Their problems are much heavier now, and at the same time, their potential greatness seems quite fragile. [NewsOK]

• I’m with Guerin Emig. How do more CFB programs not show highlights of other games? This seems like it should be a very basic thing. It has to be a licensing issue, right?

Schools run scores of other games on video and ribbon boards, but they should do better than that. They should show highlights, and lots of them. The timeout official steps onto the field? That’s a cue to show big plays from big games. Cut the audio so the public address announcer can thank game sponsors. Put the highlights in a corner of the board so the university’s commercial still gets main play.

Just so long as fans feel they’re not missing out on the rest of college football. So long as fans aren’t bored to death by the tedium of media timeouts. [Tulsa World]

• Mark Immelman — my sometimes-podcast co-host — weighs in on Matthew Wolff.

• These are kinda sick, right?

Non-OSU Bullets

• Klosterman on how he chooses books.

• Adrian Peterson in debt (!) after making $100M in his career.

• I’ve been way into the whole Kawhi thing, and this on him and the league was great.

• Can Harden and Westbrook thrive together in Houston?

• Also great: One of my contemporary faves who turned into a MLB superduperstar, Troy Tulowitzki, has retired.

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