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Daily Bullets (April 5)

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Holder Watch

Update on the AD situation after news of an associate position came open over the weekend.

It is believed the person who gets the deputy job will be Holder’s designated successor. Sources refer to it as an “athletic director-in-waiting” scenario, with Holder sustaining his AD role for a period of time after the deputy’s hiring.

One source guessed on a date before which the transition would occur: “By the start of football season, I would think.”

From the maze of phone calls and speculation regarding the possibility of a new OSU athletic director, two figures appear to be legitimate frontrunners. Both are Oklahoma State graduates: Chad Weiberg, currently a deputy AD at Texas Tech and hailed as being a fund-raising star; and Wren Baker, currently the AD at the University of North Texas. [TulsaWorld]

Haisten goes on to talk about how it’s not a done deal: that finishing the fundraising on the baseball stadium and some strong pushes by friends in high places would secure his job. Those candidates sound pretty interesting, plentiful options on the heels of the basketball coach search with less obvious options.

But timelines and openings are surfacing, an awful lot of smoke for there to be no fire.

Returning Stars

ESPN ranked college basketball’s best players for next season and a Cowboy made the top 25:

22. Jeffrey Carroll, Oklahoma State Cowboys

You can make a somewhat heretical case that Carroll’s season was surprisingly similar to Josh Jackson’s season at Kansas, the only difference being the severe drop in fanfare one would forecast for a player who’s two years older and 2 inches shorter than the one-and-done guy. (Granted, they’re not identical performance twins. Jackson is plainly the superior passer, and Carroll is head and shoulders better at the line.)

Can the Cowboys wing repeat that tour de force as a senior under new coach Mike Boynton now that an efficiency guru such as former coach Brad Underwood has moved on to Illinois? We’re about to find out. [ESPN Insider $$$]

While Jackson seemed to play much more with his back to the basket and the other side of pick and rolls, the argument that they made similar impact on games is fair (and insane to think about).

Carroll’s rapid ascent from specialist to lethal offensive weapon is no longer a secret to college basketball and how Boynton utilizes him will be huge.

OSU and NCAA Notes

Really fun piece breaking down college QB’s, no. 2 is really impressive in his category (“Statues”)….Tramel breaks down all the new college football hires….Bill Snyder speaks publicly about his battle with cancer….Cowgirl tennis player from the Ukraine brought home Big 12 player of the week (for the second time this year)….A new one: Colorado linebacker left the team to hike the Appalachian Trail….ProFootballFocus takes a look at Jordan Sterns’ draft stock

So it begins.

Let’s get this dude on campus ASAP.

ICYMI: This piece on Mason was great.

What You Missed on PFB
Masters Coverage
Other Stuff I’m Reading

Perspective on the Romo retirement….Summer vacation idea for you here: Marfa, Texas…..Amazon is paying big bucks for streaming rights to ten NFL games this fall

Russell Westbrook’s historic night: triple-double number 41.

Also, thank you Tony.

 

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