Daily Bullets (Mar. 31): Pokes Beat Sooners with Walk-Off, Boynton’s Salary Among Peers

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Scores

Baseball: Pokes 5, Sooners 4

Walkoff WIN! @caeden_trenkle with the clutch hit to give #okstate a Bedlam victory#MakeItHappen #GoPokes pic.twitter.com/yYX8JYNlYb

— OSU Cowboy Baseball (@OSUBaseball) March 31, 2021

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OSU Bullets

• One of the big questions around Mike Boynton’s extension is this – how does he now compare with his peers on the payscale?

This season, by nearly $500,000, Boynton was the Big 12’s lowest-paid coach. Even at $3 million, he still would be eighth on the 2020-21 ranking of Big 12 salaries.

However, the move to $3 million is a sweet milestone for Boynton and an important commitment statement from OSU.

[TulsaWorld]

• Pokes beat the Sooners with a walk-off – storybook stuff from O’Brate:

? WALK IT OFF @caeden_trenkle ‼️

BEDLAM BELONGS TO THE COWBOYS AS WE WIN IT IN A WALK OFF VICTORY 5-4 ?#MakeItHappen #GoPokes pic.twitter.com/3By8DGqeKZ

— OSU Cowboy Baseball (@OSUBaseball) March 31, 2021

• This is the key to unlocking anxiety around the seven-year extension:

I saw some Travis Ford PTSD folk saying the 7 years were too many, but I think the 7-year, $3 million per is a great sweet spot.

[PFB]

• How the Cowboys can get better from the three next season

• Pokes are after another touted center for the 2021 class – a recent decommit from a Big East program

• Pretty fun to see Boynton’s old players congratulating him on his new deal

• Three OSU wrestlers will be competing for Olympic spots this weekend

• Speaking of Olympic wrestlers… We would all probably dislike AJ Ferrari if he went to another school but instead we can just delight in him trolling the Sooners ha:

The champ @mrfasttwitch with quite literally the greatest ceremonial first pitch of all time. pic.twitter.com/N20pVoxVtO

— Jared Gallagher (@jaredgallagher) March 30, 2021

• Pro Day coming up tomorrow in Stillwater – should draw a crowd:

Path to the draft starts Thursday. Pro Day 2021#LetsRide | #GoPokes pic.twitter.com/0OZrH0Vv5D

— OSU Cowboy Football (@CowboyFB) March 30, 2021

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Non-OSU Bullets

• Finished this non-fiction read on a New England town raising loads of Olympians – some solid parenting insights in there

• Bitcoin is all grown up

• With Easter coming up, I’d recommend this Bible for toddlers and up a couple years – ours are engaging with it pretty well