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The portal?

So I’m just curious…….does Ok State have anyone dedicated to the transfer portal? I know a lot of schools hired full time folks to analyze possible transfers. We just seem to have absolutely no traction in the portal. Ou has snagged like 7 players already from the portal.

Speaking of burning down the house.......

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You go Glen!!

Weird that the FBI raided the home of a Democrat Rep in TX...

Interesting that he's a very vocal critic of Pedo Joe's border bullshit. I wonder what this is about...

Needs its own thread- can I say "about time"...

...on this?

'I just love these guys': How one booster saw Oklahoma State's three-game road trip from a different angle

'I just love these guys': How one booster saw Oklahoma State's three-game road trip from a different angle​

Jacob Unruh
Oklahoman

STILLWATER — DeeDee Wiese sat in the black-padded folding chair beside her husband, Paul, with a nervous energy.

They were just a few feet from Oklahoma State’s bench Saturday afternoon inside Baylor’s Ferrell Center. They were road weary themselves as the warmup music filled the arena.

“It hasn’t been a happy week,” DeeDee said, completely unaware that would all change with a 61-54 upset of the No. 1-ranked Bears.

As she watched warmups, she recalled her viewpoint from Texas Tech two nights before. She did not appreciate the rowdiness of the Red Raiders’ faithful. She hated seeing the Cowboys’ so downtrodden.

But DeeDee wasn’t giving up on OSU. That will never happen.

“I just love these guys,” she said.

DeeDee had a unique view of the Cowboys’ toughest and longest road trip of the season. The 60-year-old OSU booster was embedded with the team for the grueling cross-country journey.



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Stillwater to Morgantown, West Virginia, to Lubbock, Texas, to Waco, Texas, and finally back to Stillwater. A total of 3,256 miles in six days.

DeeDee saw the Cowboys tumble with two disheartening losses but rise with a momentous upset of the nation’s top team.

She’ll be there again Wednesday when the Cowboys return to Gallagher-Iba Arena for a 7 p.m. matchup with an improved TCU squad. But it will be tough to forget the week before, even if it was quite different than she expected.

“I got to see them at their worst and I got to see them at their best,” DeeDee said. “I’m just so thankful they got that win.

“I’m telling you, I wouldn’t be able to look back on that week with the same kind of joy that I can if I hadn’t gotten to see the whole roller coaster of it.”

The week was certainly eventful.

But each time the Cowboys struggled, they had a friendly face to greet them at the arena, at the hotel, on the team bus and even on the team plane.

That was important to DeeDee and Paul, who joined her for the final two games. And it meant a lot to the Cowboys.

“After every game — even the losses — those type of people encourage you to keep on going, that they’ve got your back and they want to support you,” OSU coach Mike Boynton said. “For them to be here and see everything that goes on in terms of how we get the job done felt really good. I’m thankful for them and several others.”

More than four years ago, DeeDee wouldn’t have made this trip.

A Texas native who went to Abilene Christian University, she didn’t even like basketball. That was Paul’s thing. From their home in California, he was a huge fan of OSU, especially of Boynton. Paul often traveled to Stillwater for work and even secretly had four season tickets.

It all changed for DeeDee when she met Isaac Likekele.

Then a freshman, Likekele was doing homework on a road trip in Minnesota when Paul introduced him to DeeDee. Likekele stood up, shook her hand and took a picture with her.

She was instantly impressed.

DeeDee later met Boynton and fell hard for him, too.

“Obviously, he wants them to win and he wants to be good, but he also wants them to be men of character when they leave here,” DeeDee said. “I love that. I just love it.”

When the Wieses moved to Stillwater last year, DeeDee learned of Paul’s secret tickets. They’ve since purchased six more.

Now, they rarely miss a game.

DeeDee has been to all but one game this season. She and Paul missed the Houston game in Fort Worth, Texas, in December when they were diagnosed with COVID-19. DeeDee will begrudgingly miss the trip to Florida on Jan. 29.

“I don’t think you have a more fervent support of OSU basketball,” Paul said. “It used to be me but I don’t think so.”

Paul, who still travels frequently to California for work, was unable to make the trip to West Virginia. But DeeDee wasn’t going to miss it.

So, Paul contacted Keiton Page, OSU’s director of player development, to find out where the team was staying. DeeDee wanted to be in the same hotel.

Page instead offered something better. He encouraged DeeDee to join the team for the entire trip.

“I don’t want to be a freeloader,” Paul said.

Page still insisted.

And last Monday, DeeDee boarded the chartered 737 airplane with the Cowboys unsure of what to expect. She expected some fun times, goofiness and college-type fun.

Instead, she learned really quickly it was a business trip.

The players and coaches remained in their seats, mostly quiet. The coaches worked on the gameplan.

“I was just kinda staying in the back minding my own business,” DeeDee said. “It occurred to me that this is far more serious than I expected it to be. This is big business. It’s Big 12 basketball.

“I learned really fast that they weren’t going to be entertaining me. I was going to be keeping my head down and entertaining myself.”

When the Cowboys landed at each destination, she rode the team bus to the hotel. Once everybody was checked in, she often accompanied the team to shootaround. Then, it was back to the team hotel.

On gameday, the Cowboys had film study. Again, DeeDee sat in the back of the room as the coaches went over things.

“You kind of want to be as small and as invisible as possible,” she said.

And the mood changed each day.

After falling to West Virginia last Tuesday, the players were solemn. Team meals were quieter, with several players taking their food to their rooms.

After Thursday’s loss at Texas Tech, the mood was at its lowest.

Likekele even gave DeeDee a hug and apologized.

“You know what? We believe in you,” she told him. “Don’t be sorry. If you’re giving it your all, don’t be sorry.”

But the Cowboys were struggling.

The trip and past few months were wearing on them.

“Everybody was sore, physically tired, mentally drained,” OSU forward Tyreek Smith said. “We just can’t go out with three losses. It was a must-win. That’s how we reacted to the game (at Baylor).”

After the upset, the mood was certainly different.

DeeDee noticed players were joking around. They talked. They danced.


“To go from those two huge losses to that, I don’t think the atmosphere could have been any more different,” she said.

After the team plane landed in Stillwater, the magnitude of the trip hit DeeDee.

She had been on a rare trip with a behind-the-scenes look.

Her love of the Cowboys grew even more.

“The more I fell in love with the team and the coaches, I just felt like I wanted to support these guys, I wanted to be there,” DeeDee said. “I just felt like there was so much heart and passion and I wanted to be a part of that.”

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Video showing her STOPPING violence from the turds that infiltrated the crowd J6- BEFORE she was shot dead in cold blood while unarmed by DC thug Leroy Byrd I think is his name- paid assassin from Pelosi demon.

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