The Morning Fade – 5.19.11

Steward Mandel (who you should absolutely be reading) thinks OSU fully tapped its resources last year and won’t advance beyond 10 wins this year. (Sports Illustrated)

Ryan Herrington (who kind of looks like Matthew Stafford, no?) says the OSU golf team will turn 64 straight NCAA Championship golf appearances into 65 this weekend. (Gold Digest)

To go along with yesterday’s full NCAA report Wiz of Odds broke down each individual bowl and commented on the expenses and general satisfaction of each team. On OSU, “an unusually high $345k was reported for administrative costs” and “Mike Holder indicated he was ‘dissatisfied’ with the location of the Alamodome seats for Cowboy fans.” This is really a great study although I’m not sure how much headway it’s making in creating a playoff… (Wiz of Odds)

Kevin Tway talks “droppingbombs” and “scalabrines” with Ryan Sharp. (NewsOK)

Athlon Sports has OSU #12 in its preseason top 25 poll and accompanies its 2011 preview with awesome slideshows of the 10 best players in OSU history as well as the top 5 moments. (Athlon Sports)

One of the final pieces OSU was after for hoops next year signed with KU yesterday. Soooo, who’s up for open tryouts so Ford can run practice with more than 10 guys? (Rivals)

Ubbs breaks down the OSU Arizona game and is informed and good as always. (ESPN)

I want one. (MGoBlog)

I actually agree with this…but how about we average double digits in the Big 12 first?