That with all the proof of Biden’s deteriorating mental state that the race is considered a dead heat. Not to mention the failed policies of dems over the last 65 years.

Couldn't be happening to a more deserving cluster of narcassistic psychopaths.

@KW7, good luck in new role. Go Pokes!​

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Why Kenyatta Wright is an ideal fit as financial director for Oklahoma State football​

Scott Wright
The Oklahoman

LAS VEGAS — Mike Gundy isn’t always happy to adapt to the ever-changing landscape of college football, but the Oklahoma State coach understands the importance of it.

His latest move, however, seemed to come more naturally, considering Gundy’s opinion of where college football is currently headed.

Gundy sees players becoming treated as employees rather than student-athletes as the door opens wider and wider on what is allowed in terms of paying players.

Gundy recently hired former Cowboy linebacker Kenyatta Wright as OSU’s director of business and finance, and with the wide range of experience Wright has had in various avenues of football, the move looks like a perfect fit.

While the title might sound more like a pure number-cruncher, Wright's position will serve as a bridge between the program and the players, or their representatives, when working through financial details at the point when universities are allowed to directly pay players — which isn't far away.



“There’s so much in college football now that’s going into a different world,” Gundy said this week at Big 12 Media Days at Allegiant Stadium. “I have a pretty good feel for the part of college football that I’ve done for 35 years, 20 as a head coach. I’m comfortable with the way we operate.

“We’ve been lucky that we were able to hire Kenyatta and make him the director of business and finance, which is essentially a front office for an NFL (franchise).”

It’s the type of position that didn’t exist in college football three years ago, but is becoming widely common now. Yet there’s no defined method for the role or the person who fits it.

Wright’s experience level seems ideal.

Wright, who played for the Jets and Bills after his college career, was involved with the NFL Players Association during his playing days and beyond. He has been a coach at the high school level.

And most recently, Wright has had various levels of involvement with Pokes with a Purpose, the OSU collective that was developed when name, image and likeness guidelines were established a couple years ago.

“He’ll develop a staff and they’ll handle all the financial side of this with the players, communication with agents, runners, representatives, PR people,” Gundy said. “Salaries, brand, name, image, likeness.

“We’re going to have to have a business side of Oklahoma State football that will handle and work daily to put ourselves in a position to move forward, because if we sit back and watch, we’re gonna get run over.”



A lawsuit settled by the power conferences and the NCAA will allow universities to pay out more than $20 million per year to their athletes, though the settlement has not yet been finalized by the court system.

Still, coaches and athletic directors are bracing for the moment it goes through.

“The business side of it is new to me,” Gundy said. “So I’ve spent the last five, six months in more business and numbers meetings, and meetings that don’t make any sense to me than I have in my career as a head coach. But I have to do that based on, the times are changing.

“Kenyatta’s got great experience with this. He was very involved and highly respected in the NFL’s Players Association. And essentially what we’re going now is what they’re doing. So it’s important that we have him, and he works directly with me every day, and he can take all that off my plate.”

From the players’ perspective, Wright is a familiar face, because he has been around the program, as has his son, Elijah, who spent the previous two years as a walk-on linebacker with the Cowboys.

“That’s my guy. He’s like a big mentor to us,” linebacker Nick Martin said. “He puts us in a position to succeed. He gets us connected with the right guys, making sure we’re not being taken advantage of.

“He makes sure we are taken care of and we operate as a business as individuals, because that’s what we are. He genuinely cares about us like his kids. He’s a great, genuine guy.”

… how did our democracy survive his first term as president?

Didn't follow the guy but having been a Senator from Oklahoma thought maybe some of you did.

I was thinking about a challenge for the next decade or so for the three dominant wrestling programs...

40 before 30 or 20

This translates to: can we get to 40 Championships before Iowa gets to 30 or Penn State gets to 20?

I started this comparison (linked below) between Oklahoma State and Iowa in 2006 and forgot about it. With the new challenge of 40 before 30 or 20, I decided to update it.

It's hard to find some information such as: how many individual All-Americans make up total All-Americans. OSU has it spelled out clearly, but I didn't find it easily with the other two.

Please let me know of any errors you find that need correcting.

So much of our championship history is before freshmen were eligible.....just think of our numbers had they been!

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Anyone else here to see Gundy tonight??

Not necessarily in a good way.

Why didn’t we fill our allotted scholarships ?

What say you relative to needed defensive improvement…. It is the elephant in the room if the Pokes will contend for the title!

How much of our issues are talent related?
How much is the play caller?
Where have we upgraded?
What area concerns you the most?
What area do you believe will be our strength?

We have to be much better each game consistently and limit big plays and busts to challenge for Arlington imo. Just thought we could discuss the likelihood that will happen in the Corral’s opinions.

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And called him President Putin.

🙄🙄🙄

The latest on many top targets:

Hmmm, I thought we were told non citizens didn't vote in elections. I guess that's another Democrat labeled conspiracy theory that turns out to be true.

“I love Joe Biden but we need a need a new nominee.”

That’s a bombshell that Democrats have to take seriously.

“It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at a fund-raiser was not the Joe Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same Biden we all witnessed at the debate.”

Clooney is a big Biden supporter and donor.

How is everyone in Houston doing? Hope you are all OK. We got tons of wind and a lot of rain but no damage to our house. Lots of trees down in the neighborhood. Most of the neighborhood is without power, but we still have it.

May be behind paywall?

Replacement theory is no longer a theory.

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Are there no limits to the left’s dumbshittery? (Hint: no)

What's you alls opinion of Yormark possibly being a CFB commish? Is he a big enough FB guy to have that chance? Or is it Sanky or bust?

As you remember from several threads, my neighbor owned what I thought was a single huge black lab. But it turned out to be two from the same litter who would at every chance leave love on my lawn. The present looked like a cross between Momma Tembo and Ricky the Rhinoceros got together to say hello. Well that changed a couple of days ago (actually very sad). The last of the pair has left us. Both were big loveable dogs who had an owner who must have been a cage cleaner on rebellion at some point.

I can now put my Rivals signature to bed. Actually they were pretty cool pups.