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Daily Bullets (March 29)

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Holder Cares

A detail of athletic directing overlooked sometimes.

He hears what is said about him. Some of it is good. The rest of it, an overwhelming majority, has been less than friendly in the past week. As he went through them late at night, he said the most complimentary of the bunch went on to describe him as a “shriveled up, old fossil.”

That drew a smile from the Oklahoma State athletic director and hearty laugh from those in attendance at the introductory news conference for new men’s basketball coach Mike Boynton on Monday, but it undercuts the amount of flak Holder has taken not only in recent weeks, but also seemingly every time something goes awry.

“You’ve got to have pretty thick skin sometimes with some of those emails, but I promise each and every one of you that felt strongly enough to send me your thoughts, I read every one,” Holder said. “I responded to every one.” [O’Colly]

In a university with over 240,000 plus graduates, there’s bound to be some characters that reach out. But responding to scores of concerned fans is a good look. I remember last year hearing that Gary Patterson (TCU football coach) replies to students emails and being sincerely impressed.

You can’t make everyone happy (though the Boynton hire felt like the Regents and Holder were Swiss Family Robinson-isolated), responding to each individual email is impressive after being on the job 12 years.

______ = a Winner

Asked some very direct questions by Guerin Emig, Holder responded to general sentiment of cheapness towards the basketball program.

“I don’t measure a leader by the amount of money you spend or the numbers of zeroes on the paycheck. That doesn’t define a leader for me,” Holder said. “If it did, just go to whoever’s got the most money in college athletics and they should dominate everything. Unfortunately it doesn’t work that way. Look at the Final Four or the Elite Eight or the Sweet Sixteen. Some of those programs were seeded very high in the initial seeds for the tournament. It’s just a starting place.” [TulsaWorld]

The whole “it’s not the size of the dog, but the size of the fight in the dog” line may be true. Cinderella doesn’t play football but most every year in March she appears.

But capitalism reigns and money goes to where it’s earned. Cuonzo Martin (an ace recruiter) got $3m to take over at Mizzou. Underwood got the same. Will Wade was getting $1.5m at VCU before LSU paid him off. Mike Hopkins will start out at $1.8m at Washington and Archie Miller is getting $3.35m per year at Indiana.

Going the assistant route is essentially going to the minor leagues and hoping the guy develops as opposed to being a buyer on the trade deadline for a veteran. We’ll know this time next year if it was a bad thing but fundamentally founded are accusations that the Oklahoma State basketball program went cheap with coach no. 20.

And I’m starting to worry Holder may never get this whole basketball coach thing.

OSU and NCAA Notes

What each Big 12 football team wants to avoid this spring….ESPN ranked the Pokes top ten football players for 2017….LSU looking at adding a beer garden in the stadium….Match ups to watch in the Final Four this weekend….Tramel answers loads of questions on Holder in this mailbag….How did Gonzaga get its name?….Baylor’s new offense: K-State meets Oregon?

And then there was TCU: the Frogs beat a dude named Tacko Fall last night to advance to the NIT championship against Georgia Tech on Thursday night.

 

Everyday Guys => Regular Guys?

Honorable mention All-American seems good but being mentioned with all those lottery picks is super impressive.

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Other Stuff I’m Reading

WSJ ran a piece on Tim Keller and identity theology….I love how the NBA has so many narratives: Denver from the cheap seats….Easy, Chipotle.…There’s a disconnect between hiring requirements and job responsibility

This Russ cotton shot from a couple nights back was great:

 

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