Daily Bullets (Mar. 30): Gundy on Greg Richmond, Lutz’s Seeding as a Coach

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Scores

Softball: Texas 2, Cowgirls 1 Baseball: Cowboys 2, WV 1

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Three Thoughts

• Cowboy forward Eric Dailey, Jr. has entered the portal – it’s hard to tell if the struggle of the Mike Boynton era was bringing in the wrong (non-Cade) players or not developing them but a new coach will need to discern (PFB) • With Steve Lutz emerging as the candidate, fun to revisit his placement as a No. 12 seed in this bracket (Sellout Crowd) • Mike Gundy’s answer on why he chose to move on from Greg Richmond was insightful:

“We just needed a change there,” Gundy said. “In my 20 years as a head coach, I haven’t had to change coaches much. I feel like I’m responsible for coaching the guys I hire here, and they’re responsible for coaching the players. Every once in a while, we need to change. Greg Richmond is a great football coach and a great human being. We just needed a change. It’s one of the most difficult things to do in my position. I haven’t done it a lot because I feel like I’m responsible for them.” [O’Colly]

Two Quotes

• Just hearing about this guy’s history makes it easier to be up for his hiring:

Steve Lutz who will be hired by OSU has been a HC for 3 seasons winning his conference tournament all 3 years and was named Southland coach of the year in 2023. Before that he served as an asst. under Matt Doherty at SMU, Greg McDermott at Creighton, and Matt Painter at Purdue pic.twitter.com/pgA66nOlzg

— Dustin J (@405pokefan) March 28, 2024

• One freshman is killing it in the weight room for the Cowboys:

“We got a freshman — Armstrong (Nnodim) — crazy strong,” linebacker Nickolas Martin said. “He’s like 17, 18, like 280 [pounds]. I think he like power cleaned like 365, something crazy.” [PFB]

One Question

• Which is the bigger OSU “what if” – what if Matt Holliday played for OSU or if Jackson Holliday had played for OSU?

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