Daily Bullets (June 10): Wait, How Many Scholarships is OSU Losing?

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OSU Bullets

• While PFB is still claiming it’s making an interpretation, after talking with OSU’s compliance office and the NCAA, we’ve got a grip on what the basketball scholarship for OSU actually is.

So you could feasibly distribute the following number of scholarships over the next three seasons to satisfy this penalty.

2020-21: 13 (of 13) scholarships
2021-22: 11 (of 13) scholarships
2022-23: 12 (of 13) scholarships

The differentiation here is massive. Losing three scholarships per year — which is how I originally understood it — is completely devastating. Losing three total scholarships is a big deal but far less devastating. [PFB]

It’s a huge difference – losing nine (individual year-long units) scholarships would be a much larger effect on a program. Three (total) is doable.

• Do yourself a solid and go listen to this NCAA Basketball podcast where Mike Boynton chats about the recent allegations

Good ‘N Plenty pod with Oklahoma State’s Mike Boynton:https://t.co/HYCCkVEwJb

1:05 The postseason ban is “a bridge too far”

8:41 Why no appeal?

15:41 Fears of recruits getting poached from OSU

35:23 Black head coaches in NCAA basketball

— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) June 8, 2020

• Did Mike Gundy have the best off-season in college football?

If you can ignore Mike Gundy’s foot-in-mouth moment earlier this spring, nobody in college football has had a better offseason than the Cowboys. Both All-American running back Chuba Hubbard and wide receiver Tylan Wallace made the shocking decision to skip the NFL Draft and return to school, fortifying what already looked to be one of college football’s most experienced rosters.

Throw in a few likely starting transfers (offensive guard Josh Sills, cornerback Christian Holmes) and Oklahoma State has everything it needs to make a run at the CFB Playoff.  [247 Sports]

Note that 247 says “Oklahoma State has everything it needs to make a run at the CFB Playoff” – get me to August, plz.

• Good news – grad transfer Ferron Flavors is staying with the Pokes

Cowboys Confirmed to be staying

– Isaac Likekele (Twitter)
– Donovan Williams (@OColly)
– Rondel Walker (O’Colly)
– Ferron Flavors (@GoodmanHoops)

I’d assume the other returning players are also staying, but not confirmed. #okstate

— Chris Becker (@bhris_cecker316) June 10, 2020

• Cowboy wrestler-turned-MMA fighter Daniel Cormier is taking on Stipe Miocic for the third time

• Easy answer here: his name rhymes with “Schmooba”

Which returning rushing leader is going to have the biggest year? ? pic.twitter.com/jL6Fu2QxMH

— FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) June 8, 2020

Non-OSU Bullets

• The end of minimalism was hard for me to read (I’m a tidy guy)
• Really appreciated these (faith-based) thoughts on marriage
• Why Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” was such a big deal

Why Dubai’s man-made islands are empty:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riETCR7FnZE&w=727&h=409]