Daily Bullets (August 24)

Football News

This on Derrick Moncrief is a must read. Well done by Mark Cooper. [Tulsa World]

How OSU could use Jalen McCleskey (Part 2). [PFB]

None of the ESPN writers pick OSU, OSU’s players or OSU’s coaches to win any awards in the B12 this year. [ESPN]

EA Sports responds to Dez’s complaint about his Madden rating. And it was pretty amazing. [PFB]

OSU will start Chad Whitener, Jordan Burton and a TBD third linebacker to open the season. Glenn Spencer: “Big battle there. Big battle goin on. I’m going to have to make a tough decision. It’s good in some ways, but really I want somebody to separate himself. There’s a reason I haven’t said there’s a guy yet, because no one has separated.” [NewsOK]

Spencer’s attitude on the CBs is improving: “Now that Ashton is back in competition coming off the spring injury and we’ve got Ramon Richards, who is experienced, and Darius Curry, who has a little experience, we’re in better shape. Lenzy Pipkins has turned out to be what we hoped and is a nice addition. [Go Pokes – $]

New pod. We had a good time with this one discussing the best players who wore Nos. 1-10. [PFB]

Austin Hays on Keondre Wudtee’s running ability: “He’s obviously wearing a green jersey, so nobody can touch him. But you can just tell he’s very elusive and he’s got big moves.” [NewsOK]

Zach Crabtree says his presidential campaign would be “unreal.” [PFB]

The CBS prospect rankings for the 2017 NFL Draft are really interesting. Jordan Starns as the No. 9 FS, Chris Carson as the No. 24 RB. [CBS]

This is fascinating.

Heat map showing the hometown of all 13,738 FBS players pic.twitter.com/yZci4mMtHa

— Pick Six Previews (@PickSixPreviews) August 23, 2016

Recruiting News

Chuba Hubbard was recently named the No. 1 player in Canada. [PFB]

Recruiting coordinator Johnny Barr on American Airlines flying into Stillwater: “Joe Bob (Clements, OSU defensive line coach) used to coach there (at Kansas State) and he said it was huge for getting to Dallas and getting recruits up there and from other places.” [Go Pokes — $]

Meet the 20 QBs who were ranked ahead of Mason Rudolph coming out of high school. [Tulsa World]

Uniform News

Trotter goes Texas and Olson goes Baylor in the favorite uniform debate. [ESPN]

Ranking the 15 Oklahoma State helmets of the last five years. [PFB]

Oh my.

. @dmasonart says he's trying to bring back the cursive Cowboys uniforms for #okstate. Gonna talk to Underwood about it. On @FranchiseOK now

— Carson Cunningham (@KOCOCarson) August 23, 2016

Other Sports

Courtney Dike named B12 offensive player of the week for the first week of soccer season. [O’Colly]

This headline is spectacular. [O’Colly]

Other Stuff I’m Reading

Retro technology before it’s time. The 5 MB computer! [John.do]

Blog, you idiots. I’m biased (obviously), but I loved this. [Hairpin]