Daily Bullets
Daily Bullets (Sept. 1): The Future is Present in Stillwater
It’s official: OSU has its QB1.
I was in and out of CFB world on Saturday, but my overwhelming thought about Friday evening and everything that’s taken place with the Pokes in the last week is that I haven’t felt like an OSU team was going to be this fun in a really long time. Rudolph’s teams were always good, but I’m not sure they were ever as fun as this one seems like it’s going to be. Same with Chelf and Walsh. You might be able to go back to 2011. Again, quality does not equal fun, and this one could still go 5-7, but it’s going to be a ride to get there.
Bullets Rundown
• Berry: OSU has its guy
• Cox: But beware of the Oregon State boost
• Jason McEndoo does Jason McEndoo things
OSU Bullets
• Berry says OSU has found its guy. That seems like an obvious thing to write — and it is — but Berry does it well, per usual.
Some day, we’re going to learn to stop believing coaches. Sure, Brown played – the final 1:19 of the game, after Sanders completed 19 of 24 passes for 203 yards and three touchdowns, while also rushing for 109 yards on 13 carries. No fooling. If Gundy had gone to a platoon Friday night, there would have been rioting in the Stillwater streets. [NewsOK]
• Good stuff here from Kyle Cox on what we learned (and didn’t) on Friday in Corvallis. I think this is easy to blaze past (for me) considering how thrilling the offense was, but it’s a good reminder (especially in light of Boise last year).
This really was the perfect tune-up game for Spencer Sanders and this offense. You get to beat up on a team with the guise of a Power 5 defense on the road, and build some confidence along the way. But it’s important to remember that the same Beavers, who Oklahoma State casually hung 52 points on, finished 129th out of 130 teams in scoring defense last season.
The real test won’t come until Big 12 play starts in Austin in three weeks, but for now you’ve got to love that OSU is 1-0 with a good chance of starting 3-0 and has some built momentum to start the year. [PFB]
• About that elevator mishap …
The report was that McEndoo did get the door at the top of the elevator open and was hoisting a graduate assistant coach through it despite the insistence of the elevator operator not to. Desperate times call for desperate measures. McEndoo just had a funny smile in response afterwards in the locker room. [Go Pokes]
He would have been my No. 1 draft pick if I had to choose which assistant had done this.
• Brennan Presley did his Rashaun Woods impersonation this weekend.
The other massive performance from an Oklahoma State 2020 commit took place at Mansfield Timberview in Arlington, TX, but it was Bixby receiver/defensive back Brennan Presley.
On the defensive side of the ball, Presley recorded four solo stops, as well as one blocked field goal, but it was the offensive side of the ball where he truly shined. The 5-7.5, 160-pound athlete hauled in 17 receptions for 237-yards and six touchdowns. That’s 13.9 yards per reception. [Go Pokes]
Obscene.
Some final stats from tonight's Bixby Spartan 77-47 win. Bixby's junior QB, Mason Williams passes for 422 yards and 8 TDs, 226 and 6 TDs for senior receiver and OSU commit, Brennan Presley. Great game, Spartans! @BixbyPS @BixbySpartansFB #okpreps
— Bixby Public Schools (@BixbyPS) August 31, 2019
• Boone said more or less the same thing as Cox did above, and now I remain the only one of the Kyles trumpeting Sanders’ name from the rooftops for the 2019 Heisman Trophy.
The reality is that Oregon State is kind of the Kansas of the west coast — they’re really bad, and they’ve been really bad for awhile — so Sanders toasting the Beavers’ D was kind of expected. But if he can do something similar to the OUs, West Virginias and Texas’s what he did Friday against inferior OSU, then OSU might just have a QB worthy of some national praise. For now, we wait and see — and enjoy what we’ve seen so far. [PFB]
• I always enjoy Berry Tramel’s travel blog, and this one had a unique nugget buried at the very bottom.
I learned a little from chatting up the OSU people. Namely this. A decent amount of people knew long before Friday that Spencer Sanders was going to be the quarterback. [NewsOK]
That’s the first time I’ve heard somebody say that in that way. Maybe revisionist history, maybe not. And it doesn’t much matter now. But I thought it was an eye-opening tidbit.
• More bad news than good for NFL Pokes over the weekend.
• Gundy’s comments on the QBs here were really good.
• OSU is struggling at the Carmel Cup. They’re 29 back of OU after two rounds.
• Water to a whale!
He could sell water to a whale ? https://t.co/0lrvBHB9Mx
— Chad Johnson (@ochocinco) August 31, 2019
• Lol.
When you watch Spencer Sanders, Chuba Hubbard and Tylan Wallace light it up in Week 1 and realize #okstate could actually be a dark horse Big 12 contender. pic.twitter.com/8lN1QMNdMy
— Kyle Boone (@PFBoone) September 1, 2019
• This is awesome.
Congratulations to former volunteer assistant coach @JHunterNicholas on becoming the newest assistant coach for Utah State! ??
We are extremely proud and appreciative of all you did for the Cowboy tennis program and wish you nothing but the best.
? #OkState ⚫️
— OSU Cowboy Tennis (@CowboyTennis) August 31, 2019
• Yeesh.
Chargers’ LT Russell Okung (blood clots) is being left on the reserve/non-football injury list, which means he cannot play for at least the first six weeks of the season, per source. A blow for all involved.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) August 31, 2019
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