Daily Bullets (Mar. 31): Let’s Talk Different CFB Start Dates, Boynton Adds a Guard

March is over after today and it’s easily been one of the “maddest” in US history. 

Bullets Rundown

• The idea of starting CFB another time
• Boynton adds a veteran guard
• Great Les Miles’ quote after Nebraska-win

OSU Bullets

• This unique idea for timing the college football season would sure be interesting.

Michael Smith of Sports Business Journal reports that one of the scenarios for playing college football in 2020 consists of moving the season to July, August, and September.

The decision to accelerate the season would be driven by concerns that the American coronavirus epidemic could subside in the warmer months and return in the fall. An abbreviated college football season played in the summer months could be the best, and only, way to get a college football season accomplished. [Yahoo Sports]

Fourth of July for the opener? Labor Day against the Longhorns for a trip to JerryWorld? Best. Summer. Ever. 

• Death, taxes, and Mike Boynton adding high octane-offensive grad transfers

• This Les Miles quote from 2002 after the first win over Nebraska since 1961 is one for the annals.

“It becomes a nice memory for the coaching staff and the players,” Miles said. “It becomes a great point where having done something new and different at Oklahoma State, they write their name down in the history books as the team that changed that tradition of losing to Nebraska.

“The people who might appreciate it most are those people who have had to bear the length of that tradition through time, where good Oklahoma State teams finished just short of that goal. Today we didn’t.” [Pokes Report]

•  The NCAA voted to give an extra year of eligibility to spring athletes – this was one of the more interesting points: that this bonus year won’t count against scholarships

Worth noting that returning seniors will not be counted against usual scholarship numbers. So schools are basically being extended the opportunity to go above the usual limitations and do what they can afford. https://t.co/uH1lWmjGCA

— Pat Forde (@ByPatForde) March 30, 2020

• This would be a great throwback uni set for homecoming one year.

So to pass some time, a @CowboyFB running back who I enjoyed watching and believe to be underrated, no. 25, Andre Richardson. Wonder what became of him? #okstate #GoPokes pic.twitter.com/QJQoC3hO68

— Doug Shivers (@casdas29) March 30, 2020

Non-OSU Bullets

• Enjoyed Berry T. on neighborhood walks
• Finished another lap through this John Grisham novel over the weekend – not as good as the first in the series (“A Time to Kill”) but still really good
• This is one of the better sixth-man debates in recent NBA history

Liked this excerpt from an NYT piece about getting some fresh air during the pandemic – made me go Matthew 6 about the sparrow.

Here is the alternate world we need right now, one that exists far beyond the impulse to scroll and scroll. The bluebird bringing pine straw to the nest box she has chosen in a sunny spot of the yard, like the chickadee bringing moss to the nest box under the trees, is doing her work with the urgency of the ages. She has no care for me at all. [NYT]