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Daily Bullets (Oct 17) – Figuring Out What Works Best, Seeing What $5M Buys

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By Ground or By Air

With college football offenses (in general), the idea is to take what the defense is giving you. Is Oklahoma State doing that?

(Justice) Hill is averaging 16 carries for 97 yards per game. He has 112 rush attempts, 27 fewer than he did at this point a year ago. The thought in the preseason was he would be the focal point of the offense, but too often he is underutilized. He finished with just 11 carries for 41 yards against Kansas State. He had 12 carries in the loss to Texas Tech earlier this season.

Mike Gundy said after Saturday’s loss that OSU saw more opportunities in the passing game, but just didn’t execute.

“The receivers were open, right? Most of them,” Gundy said. “So they’re good plays. You know what I’m saying? We can’t just shut down one way or the other. So if there’s open receivers and we don’t hit them, then when you go back and evaluate what you’re doing, you say, OK, that’s a good play.” [TulsaWorld]

I sort of harped on this yesterday but how many times can defenses bait OSU into throwing and see drives fizzle out with that 54 percent completion rate? Usain Bolt could give me lane one in the 400 meter and the end result won’t change – I’m not fast.

That’s the thing – Yurcich, Stitt, and Co. have to come up with a more creative ground attack that can absorb more of the offensive usage as opposed to leaning on the passing game.

Deci$ion$, Deci$ion$

I’ve long held that Mike Gundy isn’t paid $5m a year to win 12 games at Oklahoma State – he’s paid $5m to win seven or eight on bad years and knock on the door for ten wins on good years. It’s time for that theory to be tested and to see what OSU is getting for it’s money.

As there is no game this weekend, Gundy has extra time to put a microscope on his team and consider options.

Will his response involve Sanders?

Or will the coach stubbornly stand pat with a determination to make the status quo click at higher levels?

Either way, there’s a $5 million burden on Gundy to come up with something substantially better than the Texas Tech, Iowa State and Kansas State performances. [TulsaWorld]

I’ll be first in line to say Gundy deserves that money, I’m just super intrigued to hear what someone who’s paid more than 90 percent of his peers does when faced with an adverse situation. He’s paid to make great decisions and I’m curious to see what that looks like.

OSU and NCAA Notes

Week Seven of college football was off the rails….Makes sense in the middle of a down year but surprised not to see Yurcich mentioned for jobs like this….Bama’s Tua Tagovaiola is making history….Text messages show Bill Self was working with the shady Adidas guy

You could kind of see Wallace coming for this list – but Justice Hill being beat out by Sermon (not Rodney Anderson) is sort of an indictment on the OSU offense.

Smart was obviously an apparel merchandising major at OSU.

My goodness – Charlie Weis thinks that’s impressive buyout money.

This could be really fun – would love to see KU/Nova. OSU at St. John’s for Boynton would be sweet – so many good basketball schools to pick from.

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