Daily Bullets (May 14): How Eric Morris Closed Drew Mestemaker to the Pokes

Thanks for stopping by – here’s your daily dose of Oklahoma State sports news. 

OSU Bullets

• ESPN did a piece looking at OSU’s wild process of rebuilding the football roster – so many nuggets.

Let’s start with how Eric Morris closed on his star quarterback: 

“All right, two things,” Morris told (Drew) Mestemaker.

He reminded his star pupil what they’d just accomplished together. In Mestemaker’s first season as a college starter with North Texas, he led the nation in passing yards, operated the No. 1 scoring offense in FBS and achieved a 12-2 record, the best in school history.

“And two? Don’t break my heart.”

Morris hung up. [ESPN]

• Cowgirl Golf is headed to the NCAA Championships after finishing third at the Chapel Hill Regional (Clippd)

• Inside the Big 12’s bid to use private equity to close the gap with the Big Ten/SEC:

The Big 12’s bet is that by the time its media rights reach the open market, it won’t just be selling television inventory. With RedBird Capital infusing capital into the conference, the firm has deep ties across broadcast media and entertainment — the Big 12 expects to market a portfolio of conference-controlled commercial businesses alongside its games. [CBS Sports]

• Pokes are bringing in a defensive back for a recruiting trip this weekend to add some depth (PFB)

•  Josh Holliday got hot yesterday talking about teams cancelling games for purposes of skewing their RPI (PFB)

Non-OSU Bullets

• The Silicon Valley freshmen being groomed to rule

• Slang dictionary by Websters