Daily Bullets
Daily Bullets (Oct 17) – Figuring Out What Works Best, Seeing What $5M Buys
By Ground or By Air
With college football offenses (in general), the idea is to take what the defense is giving you. Is Oklahoma State doing that?
(Justice) Hill is averaging 16 carries for 97 yards per game. He has 112 rush attempts, 27 fewer than he did at this point a year ago. The thought in the preseason was he would be the focal point of the offense, but too often he is underutilized. He finished with just 11 carries for 41 yards against Kansas State. He had 12 carries in the loss to Texas Tech earlier this season.
Mike Gundy said after Saturday’s loss that OSU saw more opportunities in the passing game, but just didn’t execute.
“The receivers were open, right? Most of them,” Gundy said. “So they’re good plays. You know what I’m saying? We can’t just shut down one way or the other. So if there’s open receivers and we don’t hit them, then when you go back and evaluate what you’re doing, you say, OK, that’s a good play.” [TulsaWorld]
I sort of harped on this yesterday but how many times can defenses bait OSU into throwing and see drives fizzle out with that 54 percent completion rate? Usain Bolt could give me lane one in the 400 meter and the end result won’t change – I’m not fast.
That’s the thing – Yurcich, Stitt, and Co. have to come up with a more creative ground attack that can absorb more of the offensive usage as opposed to leaning on the passing game.
Big 12 Passing Efficiency Leaders (Conference Games Only) #B12C pic.twitter.com/VfcJqk3X1J
— Cullen Clark (@Cullen_B12C) October 15, 2018
Deci$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.
Kyler Murray is your All-Big 12 QB at the midseason mark – for the full team, offense, defense and the second team ???https://t.co/sbqvwlcnWQ pic.twitter.com/geBZG0Exac
— PFF College (@PFF_College) October 16, 2018
Smart was obviously an apparel merchandising major at OSU.
Arriving for #KiaTipOff18 in #NBAStyle…@smart_MS3 pic.twitter.com/xgvhnn9y09
— NBA (@NBA) October 16, 2018
My goodness – Charlie Weis thinks that’s impressive buyout money.
"I'm not ruling out a change at the end of the season even though he (Malzahn) has a contract that has at least 38 million dollars in buyout money…from what I've been told, there's not much concern there when it comes to the money" – @bmarcello pic.twitter.com/jjhYUemqxz
— Paul Finebaum (@finebaum) October 16, 2018
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.
Source: The Big East and Big 12 have officially agreed to an annual "challenge" between the two conferences, starting during the 19-20 season. Official announcement expected soon.
— Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) October 15, 2018
Yesterday on PFB
- Kyle C. with Mike Gundy’s checklist for the bye week
- Five storylines to watch with the upcoming Cowboy basketball season
- Predictions on Marcus Watson’s upcoming commitment
- Thoughts on the recent Cowboy wrestling recruiting victories
- See what Chris Carson and the gang are up to in the recent NFL update
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- Not to be too much of a hondo but I agree young men should play a team sport
- Why you should eat dinner at 2pm
- Inside a $30m plan to make American soccer great (period)
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