Daily Bullets (June 19): Gundy Brings the Leadership, Filming an All-Access Series

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OSU Bullets

• The kind of leadership and humility it took for Mike Gundy to make these comments is sure to impact the viewer.

“The way the players feel about me, and I upset them and broke their heart, that bothered me more than losing games,” Gundy said. “That’s the truth, but that’s why now, as humans, when we make mistakes, the only thing we can do is admit we’re wrong, own up to it, be humble, accept critical people, criticism, make it better and move forward.”  [ESPN via PFB]

I’m curious about what exactly the players want, as to how exactly Oklahoma State was mistreating players. I’m not at all interested in minimizing the negativity of the players’ experience, I just think that impacts how we all feel and think about the situation. When pressed for specifics on ESPN’s First Take, here was Chuba Hubbard’s response:

“I won’t go into complete specifics on exactly what we want changed as a team, but I’ll say this, we want a better experience for Black student-athletes and we want to encourage people to use their voice and use their platform for good. That’s the biggest thing.” [ESPN via PFB]

When someone is offended and hurt, their experience is both completely valid and subjective. Everyone wants all of the student athletes to have a great experience and regardless of what details are disclosed – I’m impressed by Gundy’s last video and I dearly hope Chuba and Co. start to have a better experience. The experience most of you reading had/have/will have in Stillwater.

• Austin Eckroat destroyed Oak Tree National and is coming back for another season of college golf

• Mike Gundy and Chuba Hubbard are filming an All-Acess series with ESPN

• A 2021 offensive line target is making his decision at 3pm today and Mike Boynton is after a late-add big man for the 2020 class

• Updated basketball team tracker:

#GraphicTracker2020

Likekele ✅
Flavors ✅
Ka. Boone ✅
Harris ✅
Anderson ✅
D. Williams ✅
Walker ✅
Ke. Boone
Cunningham
Moncrieffe
Pena
B. Williams
Anei ❌
Roessink ❌

— Marshall Scott (@Marshall_Once) June 18, 2020

• Hovland didn’t have to shake off much rust.

? Twitterless Viktor#okstate | #golfschool pic.twitter.com/DkB4jDx3j0

— Oklahoma State Golf (@OSUCowboyGolf) June 18, 2020

Non-OSU Bullets

• This NBA pod with Lowe and Simmons redoing the 09′ NBA Draft was a blast
• Fun faith-based post on why not to follow Google Maps