…unless you want your $$ going to ou football:

- Brick Brothers Pizza in Bixby
- Treys Bar & Grill in Tulsa
- Cardinal Club in Tulsa

They’re all owned by this Travis Davidson guy who’s a big time ou clout chaser and booster. He used to brag on Twitter about being close with Lincoln Riley until that got turned upside-down. Now, he’s about to go even more all-in with NIL stuff for the goons.

Just wanted to throw it out there as a PSA of sorts.

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Dude continues to impress. Everyone complaining about how long it was taking and he goes and lands DM. Big splash and the players seem to love it. Oh yeah, OSU is the only P5 schools with two black coordinators, but most importantly men of faith and integrity. There's a reason why our foundation here at OSU is so solid and it starts with Gundy. Kudos to him!

In regards to Russia, we need to be extremely concerned right now. The U.S. deep state and their globalist overlords are giddy over the prospect of war with Russia. First, the war machine must be fed. Second, the invention, worldwide distribution and manipulation of covid did not result in a frenzy large enough to warrant ushering in Claus Schwab’s great reset worldwide as intended. War with Russia would more than pick up where covid left off in that regard. Don’t be a bit surprised to wake up to Fake News in an orgasmic feeding frenzy about some new twist resulting in shots fired, ala much like the Fake News circle jerk we saw for four years about Russia Russia Russia, Mueller Mueller Mueller. The talking points across the board will be orchestrated down to a T. That’s when you’ll know we‘re screwed. That’s when you’ll know the fix is in. Globalists have been fantasizing about a war with Russia for sometime now, and that is reason to be on watch. The same people coordinated with China to bioweapon the entire world with the China Flu. War with Russia, at this point, is mere child’s play.

see 20% annualized home value growth...


see 4.5% annualized rent equivalent growth

You can't have one component that makes up 30% of the CPI only reflect 20% of the actual asset inflation. Even if home values start to level out with higher interest rates, you'll have 3-4 years of Rent Equivalent costs to catch up to the existing property value inflation, and as 30% of CPI, that creates a very stubborn floor over the next 18-36 months for the CPI index.

ISU is playing pretty bad right now, getting blown out a lot. Have lost 5 of 7. We need to win

I haven’t found it on any channels including ESPN+

Way more than election fraud, way more than Covid early treatments and mass murder by Fauchi and his drones.

A subject leftist want to make legal and accepted- let that sink in
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What do you think various parties are thinking or saying? It kinda makes you wonder....

RA:



Gundy: "Welp, got that hire out of the way. Now I can finally take off until spring practice."


@southernpoke: "We could have hired Knowles for this much. Why isn't he texting me back?"


@JonnyVito: "I wonder if Mason likes squatch hunting..."


@BluegrassPoke: "I wonder if Mason knows I was texting Harsin the other night..."


@hoops316: (insert expletive here)


@JimmyBob: "I hope we didn't hire a guy that likes touching the dog in strange places."


@Mike Holder: "When the hell is Chad going to get around to offering Coach Mike another extension???"


@Coach Mike: "Why does Coach Holder text me every 30 minutes asking me if Weiberg's extended me yet?"


@Chad Weiberg: "I hope we can get Derek Mason on board. We need as much momentum as possible going into the next round of realignment... Why is Holder texting me about Coach Mike again?"


@Joe Bob Clements:



@Indy: "Happy I was able to be involved in the search and interview process for Coach Mason. I wonder if anyone knows who I am yet..."


@BluegrassPoke: (opens bottle #2 of Jack Daniels) "I wonder if Mason knows I've had drinks with Jerry Jones..."


@osu2082: "Props to Gundy for actually swinging for the fences and hitting a home run. Also, why do I always have to be the voice of reason?"


@Jeff J.: "I wonder if Mason likes baseball..."


@FMPoke: "I wonder if Mason likes the St. Louis Cardinals..."


@Kenny Orange Powers: (inserts BM tackled by cops gif)


@MegaPoke: "I wonder if Mason likes spandex..."


@Marshal Jim Duncan: "I wonder if Mason likes Wilco..."


@AC2020: "Man, I bet I'm confusing everyone on the boards about my age by using all these cool, hip phrases. I should probably start calling Mason my broseph.

Shit, I forgot my login again. Time to create a new username I guess."


@Kenny Orange Powers: "Mason better be an Applebee's fan or I will fight his ass in the parking lot at 2am. Extra leg kicks from Kenny Jr."


@N. Pappagiorgio: "If Derek Mason becomes a Supreme Court Justice, I'll make him my avatar."


@dignon003: "What's an avatar?"


@OKSTATE1: "Former Vanderbilt head coach and Stanford defensive coordinator, Derek Mason is in his first year at Auburn as defensive coordinator.

Mason spent seven seasons at Vanderbilt (2014-20) where he became just the second coach in program history to lead a team to multiple bowl appearances. His 2018 team won six games and capped the regular season with a third straight victory over rival Tennessee and fifth in seven years. It also marked Vanderbilt’s second bowl appearance in three years under Mason.

Mason guided Vanderbilt to its eighth postseason appearance in 2016 and finished the regular season 6-6, including four wins over the final six games. The season featured marquee SEC victories over Georgia, Ole Miss and No. 24 Tennessee. Inside linebacker Zach Cunningham became Vanderbilt’s first consensus All-American in more than three decades, sweeping first-team honors.

The architect of Stanford’s vaunted 3-4 defense, Mason spent four seasons with the Cardinal and was elevated to defensive coordinator in 2011 after leading the program to a pair of Rose Bowl appearances and consecutive Pac-12 titles. Mason’s elite defensive units at Stanford ranked among the NCAA’s best in defensive efficiency for three consecutive seasons.

While facing seven ranked opponents in 2013, Stanford ranked third nationally in rushing defense (89.4 ypg), 10th in scoring defense (19.0 ppg) and 16th in total offense (343.1 ypg). The Cardinal was also one of only five teams to allow less than 100 rushing yards per game in 2013 and ranked fifth nationally with 44 sacks and seventh with 109 tackles for loss.

In 2012, Mason was a finalist for the Broyles Award, given annually to the nation’s top assistant coach, after directing a Stanford defense widely considered the program’s finest unit ever.

Mason’s leadership paved the way to a historic defensive output, breaking Stanford’s single-season record with 57 sacks and pacing the Pac-12 in scoring defense, total defense and rushing defense, and helped the Cardinal to an 11-2 season capped off with a Rose Bowl title. In 11 of 14 games, Stanford held its opponent to 20 or fewer points, including a 14-point effort in an overtime win at top-ranked Oregon, who led the FBS with a 54.8 scoring average. The 2012 Stanford defense held eight of 13 opponents under 100 yards rushing.

In 2011, Mason’s first year as co-defensive coordinator, his unit ranked either first or second in the Pac-12 in six defensive categories, including rushing defense, third-down conversion defense, scoring defense, total defense, sacks and opponent first downs.

Mason also helped develop an array of Stanford defensive standouts, including All-Pro cornerback Richard Sherman, All-America defensive end Trent Murphy, All-America linebacker Shayne Skov and All-Pac-12 safety Ed Reynolds.

Prior to his arrival in Palo Alto, Mason served as an assistant defensive back coach for the Minnesota Vikings from 2007-09. He played a vital role in the team ranking sixth in total defense in 2008 and 2009 as the Vikings won NFC North titles each season. Mason was introduced to the NFL coaching circles through the Minority Fellowship program.

Before joining the Vikings, Mason tutored wide receivers at Ohio under Frank Solich, helping the Bobcats improve from 4-7 in 2005 to a 9-5 campaign and GMAC Bowl appearance the following year. Mason spent the 2004 season as wide receivers coach at New Mexico State, where the Aggies led the conference in passing.

During the 2002 campaign, Mason mentored receivers and assisted with special teams at Utah. The Utes featured the NFL Draft’s No. 1 overall pick in quarterback Alex Smith and wide receiver Paris Warren, an eventual seventh-round pick.

Mason’s move to Utah came after a three-year stint at Bucknell (1999-2001) in which he gained his first experience as a defensive assistant coach. At Bucknell, Mason served as defensive backs mentor for three straight winning Bison squads.

Mason’s first three collegiate positions came as an offensive assistant at Mesa (Ariz.) Community College in 1994, Weber State in 1995-96 and Idaho State in 1997-98.

As a player, Mason was a two-year starter and four-year letter winner at Northern Arizona. Mason earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Northern Arizona in 1993. A native of Phoenix, Mason was a standout football player at Camelback High School.
Derek and his wife, LeighAnne, have two daughters, Makenzie and Sydney."


@The Duke: "I wonder if Mason prefers Google or Microsoft... Outlook is clearly inferior to GMail, so I bet he's a Google fan."


@thetruth: "Why does everyone like this new guy so much? I mean, Yurcich had a more impressive resume. Give me a break."


@Gus Johnson: "Oklahoma State makes an offer to a new DC and... WOW!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?!?!?! DEREK JOHNSON IS GOING TO OKLAHOMA STATE!!!!"


@Joel Klatt: "That's a great hire, Gus. Derek Johnson has been one of the more underrated defensive coordinators in the country in the last 10 years, and did an impressive job at Vanderbilt where it's not easy to win football games. This is a great move by Mike Gundy and goes to show why he's had success for so long at Oklahoma State."


@ou football starter: "I don't know who this Mason guy is that OSU hired, but I'm transferring to USC."


@Chad Weiberg: (to Mike Gundy) "Listen Mike, I know you don't want to do any press for hiring Coach Mason, but it could give us a little bump in season ticket sales."


@OSU ticket office: (sniffs glue)


@BluegrassPoke: (opens bottle #3 of Jack Daniels) "I wondrure if Mason knows I know thad we eer goin do the big 10. I'm pudding my ships on the tay bull."


@dtspoke: "Not really. Here's the real story..."


@OSVICTOR: "This is the best move Gundy's ever made. Besides his decision to hire a DC at all. Oh, who am I kidding... Gundy's never made a bad decision."


@cactusjackosu:



@sooner fanbase:



@BluegrassPoke: "wkfivienka Arkansas St ajfi4nguvjsjwb4hf. Win tjxiamnrbguciej wjeixi. Furws?"


@CowboyUp: (posts cell phone image of newspaper article) "I wonder if Coach Mason has heard of OSU assistant coach Terrence Rencher--the all-time leading scorer in the history of Texas Longhorns basketball..."


@southernpoke: "GD it, Knowles still isn't responding... I guarantee Meacham would be a better DC than Mason."


@Colorado_Poke: "I need to stop drinking and shitposting on the weekends..."

Fox Business just told me. Inflation is at a 40 year high. Store shelves are empty. New Venezuela? Hugo Sanders economics?

Beijing Biden promised economic stagnation and higher crime rates in Democrat debates and he's delivering. And 81 million of us didn't catch on? Highly unlikely.

Are our coaches pursuing him? Kid looks like a hell of a player and his back story is incredible. Parents sold him into slavery in Ghana when he was 3 years old. Unreal.

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The past few months have been the first time I have listened to The Sports Animal consistently in over 5 years.

1. The Morning Animals is the worst sports talk show I've ever heard. There are sometimes over five guys yelling and screaming and talking over each other constantly. It gives me a migraine headache. It's not funny, it's not insightful, it's AWFUL!

2. There must be a lot of sexually frustrated OU fans out there. It seems all of the advertising partners of The Sports Animal deal in the business of erectile dysfunction. This must explain why most OU fans are raving lunatics, also.

3. I've moved back to ESPNU on XM radio. Forever.

Article excerpt:

Oklahoma State head coach Mike Gundy, as he always does, went through his usual process of doing deep dives into candidates, a lot of his own study, and then spoke to those candidates for the defensive coordinator position. Some he interviewed away from Stillwater, but the one he hired came to the Cowboys’ West End Zone headquarters and even met with the staff. Derek Mason is the new Oklahoma State defensive coordinator, and when he gets to Stillwater, he won’t be having his first meeting with the staff. That took place during the interview process when Gundy had Mason go before the staff and they had him on the white board for several hours. The meeting left the staff impressed.

One Oklahoma State assistant said Mason was impressive with his defensive acumen and that he showed a lot of knowledge of defensive football but even knowledge of the current Oklahoma State defensive system showing the 52-year-old coach had done his homework.

In fact, Mason will use the same playbook, base defense, and terminology that is in place from the hybrid defense that previous coordinator Jim Knowles, now at Ohio State, worked out with assistants Joe Bob Clements, Dan Hammerschmidt, Tim Duffie, and Greg Richmond. Mason will use that defense as the blueprint and then add his own twists and nuances.

WSJ opinion / commentary from 1-26-22:

What Are Republicans For?​

An answer to President Biden’s question from the conservative philosopher Roger Scruton.​

By Joseph Epstein
Jan. 25, 2022 6:39 pm ET

In President Biden’s diffuse, platitudinous and often flat-out erroneous press conference of last week, one question stood out as potent and still awaits an answer. Mr. Biden asked—was it three or four times?—what his opponents, the Republicans, were for, apart from denying him credit for any accomplishments he might have had during his first year in office.
We all know what the Republicans are against, which includes the crime currently rampant on our big cities’ streets, the want of anything resembling order on our southern border, the melange of progressive giveaway programs and more. But what is the party, what in general, are American conservatives actually for? The standard answer would include free enterprise, freedom from interference from big government, equality of opportunity if not necessarily of results, the wisdom of the Founding Fathers as embodied in our Constitution, and now, more recently, open schools, an unlocked-down economy, fairness in reporting in the media on politics generally.

What, though, is the Republican, or conservative, message? The Democratic, or progressive, message is clear. Democrats care about social justice, they care about climate change, they care about women and almost all minorities, they care about voting rights—they, not to put too fine a point on it, care! This message leaves Republicans as the party that doesn’t care, or at least doesn’t care enough.
In the mind of the general public, Republicans remain the party of the wealthy—the infamous 1%. That the bumptious billionaire Donald Trump at the moment looks to be the party’s leader doesn’t help. Republicans, in this view, are anti-Democrat, little more, with no appealing positions of their own, no worldview, no philosophy beyond selfishness.


This of course isn’t true. But Republican leaders haven’t done enough to answer the charges against their party. Which is a pity because answers are at hand. The proponents of conservatism (Adam Smith, Alexis de Tocqueville, F.A. Hayek) have been far more impressive than those of liberalism (Jeremy Bentham, J.S. Mill, John Rawls). In fact, I wonder if the most recent proponent of conservatism, the late English philosopher Roger Scruton (1944-2020) doesn’t provide the message that conservatism, and with it the Republican Party, has long needed.

In an essay titled “Governing Rightly,” included in his collection “Confessions of a Heretic,” Scruton makes the case for conservatism as the party of freedom. He writes: “Those tasks that only governments can perform—defense of the realm, the maintenance of law and order, the repair of infrastructure and the coordination of relief in emergencies—are forced to compete for their budgets with activities that free citizens, left to themselves, might have managed far more efficiently through the association of volunteers, backed up when necessary by private insurance.”
Scruton adds: “Wasn’t it those associations of volunteers that redeemed, for Alexis de Tocqueville, the American experiment, by showing that democracy is not a form of disorder but another kind of order, and one that could reconcile the freedom of the individual with an obedience to an overarching law.” America, in this reading, was the land of the free, though today, led by people attempting to impose ideas that feel alien to many of its citizens, it feels less and less free all the time.
For Scruton it is crucial that citizens recognize not only the bad side of government but also the good. Government after all isn’t exclusively a “system of power and domination,” but “a search for order, and for power only in so far as power is required by order.” Order is crucial, “for it is simply the other side of freedom, the thing that makes freedom possible.” Scruton’s point is that while we may have a deep suspicion of government, we yet “have a deeper need for it.”
“Conservatism should be a defense of government,” Scruton argues, “against its abuse by liberals.” The growth of the welfare state is one notable such abuse, causing people to “turn their backs on freedom and become locked in social pathologies that undermine the cohesion of society.” One sees this above all in the countries of the European Union, where government is no longer felt to be owned by the people but is the property of “an anonymous bureaucracy” on which all depend for their comforts. In the U.S., this is still only true of those who depend on government welfare, but their number is growing.
The role of conservatism, and by extension of the Republican Party, is, in Scruton’s words, “to map out the true domain of government, and the limits beyond which action by the government is a trespass on the freedom of the citizen.” The true message of the Republican Party, then, should be not that it is the enemy of government but the advocate of a far better government, one that is both necessary and yet comports with the freedom of its citizens.

Mr. Epstein is author, most recently, of “Gallimaufry: A Collection of Essays, Reviews, Bits.”

It’s beyond embarrassing at this point.

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Speaking of transfer portal guys, here’s some interesting data to pass along from Mike Farrell of Rivals. Since Aug. 1, 2021, over 1,250 FBS scholarship players have entered the portal. Fifty-four of the players withdrew their names, and 625 announced new schools. That leaves nearly 48 percent who have not announced new schools, which means a lot of guys who entered the portal could find themselves without a team to play for next season.

#14 overall rating 2023 kid. Sean almost has him committed to Tech. Hes gonna check out Osu then make a decision. Surely we can out recruit Texas freakin Tech.

Just wow- what pure evil these entities have become

Lets hope its true. I have never been for criminalizing politics and even defended the cad John Edwards when they tried to criminalize his affair.

But these people have it coming !

My right knee is bone on bone, arthritic and I probably (who am I kidding, likely) need a joint replacement. It's fairly painful at times, limits what I can do from weightlifting perspective, range of motion is compromised. I still lift on it, as much as I can anyway. Which is very annoying for someone who wants to continue to work out hard. I do stairmaster and elliptical for cardio work. That can bother it some too.

Question is for those that might be in similar condition, do you spin? If so, what's the blowback from your knee? Have you found it more or less aggravating than say stairmaster or elliptical, or about the same?

I guess all of these issues can be a subjective thing. But was hoping some might give some insight. Thanks.

Our seemingly “pro-war” advocates, especially those who think of themselves as right-wing or conservative, might want to reconsider with whom they’ve climbed into bed.

Derek Mason will be our next DC.

OSU locks up 2 2022 commits:

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Can we land any portal players???? Would prefer to land Prince Pines.