The Morning Fade – 6.8.11

John Helsley with some strong words on OSU’s baseball woes. (NewsOK)

Neill Ostrout with some good work on DeAndre Daniels. I love this quote: “I chose UConn because I thought that was the best situation for me…and my checking account.” Whoops, I might have added in that last part. (CT News)

Phenomenal post by Tom Keegan on why Daniels would have just been the next Xavier Henry or Josh Selby in Lawrence. Couldn’t agree more. (KU Sports)

Lastly on Daniels, Jeff Eisenberg had a phenomenal recap of his strange odyssey. And, no, he didn’t steal my idea from yesterday. (The Dagger)

OSU will face New Mexico next year in the All-College Classic. Yay! (okstate.com)

A 6’7 310 lb. lineman who wants to come to OSU to major in petroleum engineering? Is this real? (Scout)

Dominic Ramacher, who I wrote about here, made the newly-released ESPNU Top 150 (ESPN)

OSU’s football team is still really really young. (ESPN)

Ubben says Hubert Anyiam has something to prove. (ESPN)

Also, Ubben’s in-the-future All-Big 12 team includes three Cowboys, including my crush. (ESPN)

Big XII Hoops says Desmond Mason was the best 17th pick from the Big 12 in NBA draft history. (Big XII Hoops)

Brandon Weeden and Justin Blackmon are on the watch list for a new college football award to the best 2-man tandem in the sport dubbed (I’m not making this up): The Pony Express Award. (NFL Draft Bible)

I’ve read this 11 times and I still don’t understand it. Maybe I’m just an idiot. (okstate.com)

Phenomenal post about why geography and teams matter more in the Heisman race than the actual players. (Heisman Pundit)