Looking ahead is a bit of fools gold at my advanced age- soon to be 77- but it keeps me going. I think we could be pretty good next year. The second and third teamers on the off line are probably intrinsically better than the hundred year old starters. Ford could be preseason all Big Twelve- if he isn’t doing twenty to life for murdering someone on the field this year. King, Shettron, Freeman are a good start to having a good wide receiver Corp and if Stribling were to come back even better. We have our elite running back- maybe- in fields and we get the Arkansas kid back. QB should be adequate and maybe a lot better. Assuming our 350 pounder comes back I like our Def Line- Johnson, Brown, Armstrong. Our secondary should be better except for Black. We have to conjure up a few linebackers but like they say about fifty lawyers at the bottom of the ocean- a good start.

this Chicago debacle is for the soccer moms and been jamming of the world that have to be shown not told

remember how ugly 1939 parisian sounded?
yet you couldn’t get over the mean tweets

tge dipshts in this great country that fell for the feel good otard reach around

and corrupt and compromised
what difference does it make

don’t get on your high horse republicans

you got traitorous mccain
deep state paul ryan
and WMD/911 bush
on your team

power back to the people
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The most epic threads are Gameday threads. Can’t wait till we are down 3-0 to SDSU and the board melts down. We haven’t seen @Epacy in a while, @thetruth says he never watches, if you go to the game let @osu2082 know what his policies should be and report back in the Gameday thread. @OKSTATE1 will write long posts and miss a series or 2, we all know why @Indy can’t post in a Gameday thread, @AC2020 is gonna fart rainbows in the thread, maybe @MegaPoke will dress up like Mike Gundy Kiss and steal a Gameday thread, @bt_ostate is gonna have a heart attack, @Pancreek1 will continue to give great Gameday in the stands follow up and hopefully he keeps his flasks full, @SquatchinPoke will talk about cleat traction and message board genius will enjoy all the snapshots!

I thought the leftist told us this wasn't a problem people are concerned about?

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Excellent, both parties need to be blown up, along with our belief that we HAVE two different parties.

Fields the runner and Armstrong the big mobile defensive end. As the season progresses both will play a lot. Also according to Gundy Cleveland is now practicing. Probably too late to step in but Cleveland was offered by Alabama.

This is so funny

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She’s just a stinking Palestinian who deserves everything that happens to her because she’s a stinking Palestinian. She ain’t no Anne Frank.

@Kenny Orange Powers

We need your preseason breakdown...

A gamble they think is worth taking.

I am waiting with bated breath to see the comments from the membership. Watch it all, there may be a few promotions, I don't know exactly which view you will get but watch it!!! If this is not the enemy, who is?

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Insanity.

JOE! JOE!! JOE!!!

If Detroit is the Democrat stronghold they think it is why the need to hire 7 times more Democrat poll workers the Republican?

Mike Gundy scores big during his first ‘Pat McAfee Show’ appearance​

• Aug 22, 2024 Updated 49 mins ago

Bill Haisten​

Tulsa World Sports Columnist & Writer

When I turned on a television for the first time on Wednesday, there was ESPN and Pat McAfee’s introduction of the Oklahoma State football coach.
“Absolute dog!” McAfee announced. “Mike Gundy!”

Gundy has done hundreds of news conferences and interviews, but this 21-minute exercise might have more value any other media-related activity since “The Rant” in 2007.

A 17-year-old football athlete may not feel compelled to watch 76-year-old Tony Kornheiser and 64-year-old Mike Wilbon on “Pardon The Interruption” (my favorite of all ESPN conversation shows).

However, that 17-year-old probably knows and probably likes the 37-year-old McAfee — a former NFL punter who wears tank tops on live TV. In addition to hosting his Monday-through-Friday show, he is an “ESPN College GameDay” panelist. For the WWE, he does color commentary and occasionally wrestles.

I enjoy the heck out of “The Pat McAfee Show.” Since he got a five-year and $85 million contract from ESPN, you might have heard or read that McAfee’s ratings are not impressive. His live-television audience apparently is much smaller than the audience for the show that precedes his — the Stephen A. Smith-anchored “First Take.”

It should be noted that the McAfee show’s YouTube channel has 2.6 million subscribers. On Instagram, there are 2 million followers. On Twitter, there are 3 million followers.



While some or most older viewers still are conditioned to reach for a TV remote, McAfee’s fans are on social media. They might be more inclined to watch McAfee at 11 p.m. on YouTube than when the show airs live on ESPN at 11 a.m. Central.

Six hours after it happened, Gundy’s first-ever “Pat McAfee Show” appearance already had been viewed 199,800 times on YouTube.

Gundy says his sons Gavin, Gunnar and Gage were “fired up” when their dad was booked to be interviewed by McAfee.
“They all watch your show,” Gundy told McAfee. “They knew I was coming on . . . They were lighting me up. They were on my butt big-time. Like, ‘don’t screw this up.’

“I said, ‘You know I’m a great interview. I’m not going to screw this up because I don’t do coaches’ talk.’ But anyway, I really appreciate you guys having me on. The show is awesome.”

Gundy’s sons range in age from 19 to 27. If they watch the McAfee show, then it’s safe to presume that there are great many additional viewers within that demographic.

By having guested and performed well on “The Pat McAfee Show,” Gundy benefited his own brand and that of the Oklahoma State football program.

The Wednesday’s topics included Gundy’s “I’m a man! I’m 40!” rant of 2007.

During the 2007 season, McAfee was a placekicker and punter for the West Virginia Mountaineers. His memory of the Gundy rant: “As a player at the time, when I see a coach go to bat for his players like that, I obviously love it. But your delivery was going to be talked about forever. Here we are (in 2024), and we’re still talking about it.”

Gundy: “Now, when I go into homes for recruiting, the grandparents bring it up. They were around. The younger generation — they’re like, ‘Eh — what?’ . . . It might have been the best thing that ever happened to us in recruiting.”

There was some talk also about Gundy’s hair. He reported that he’s “in the process” of letting his hair grow once again to a mullet length and shape.

“We’re looking at six to eight weeks, Pat,” Gundy said.

McAfee show cast member Connor Campbell: “I want to thank (Gundy), really, for being a godfather of the mullet.”

Gundy noticed that Campbell himself has an impressive mullet.

“That is a big-time mullet right there,” Gundy stated. “He’s got the one with the ballcap, where it looks really good. That goes back to the ’80s mullet.”

Some of the dialogue centered on Gundy’s expectations regarding NIL and the transfer portal.



“When the portal opens back up – whether we like it or not – I think you’re going to see more players going in the portal to negotiate (and) not necessarily to try and leave,” Gundy said. “That’ll be the big change.

“We’re going to be negotiating seven-figure contracts. I don’t know anywhere in the world where there’s a seven-figure (compensation situations) that are negotiated without a contract.”

“I really believe,” he added, “that college football (programs) are eventually going to break away and become their own company.”

At the start of each McAfee show is a warning disclaimer, read by a cast member in a hilarious Lou Holtz impression: “There may be some ‘cuss’ words because that’s how people in the real world talk.”

It would be easy for an older coach to try too hard to fit into McAfee’s informal, young-energy show structure. The 57-year-old Gundy was relaxed, with his “BIG DADDY” coffee mug on display, and he did or said nothing that would qualify as having tried too hard.

McAfee used some profanities, because he always uses some profanities, but Gundy gets credit for not going there.

With McAfee, Gundy kept it clean. Smart choice. Gundy was representing his university.

Last season, then-Alabama coach Nick Saban was a weekly regular on the McAfee show. You wouldn’t think that a no-nonsense figure like Saban would click with McAfee and his crew, but it was great television.

After Gundy’s appearance, one of “The Pat McAfee Show” producers messaged OSU media relations staff member Sean Maguire and indicated that he was “very pleased” with the segment.

“You’re at the top of the list, bud,” McAfee said to Gundy as the segment ended. I suspect you’ll be seeing a lot more of Mike Gundy on “The Pat McAfee Show.”

Well Women's Football anyways. Beat the Lady Land Thieves!!!

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Can Oklahoma State football emerge from haunting Bedlam shadow with OU off to SEC?​

Scott Wright
The Oklahoman

STILLWATER — The new Big 12 has arrived, and the old guard has departed.

In building his program from conference also-ran to a consistent contender for league titles, Oklahoma State’s Mike Gundy overcame nearly every obstacle his Cowboys confronted.

Rung by rung, they climbed the ladder.

In 2021, they made their first appearance in the Big 12 Championship Game. Last year, they returned again. The Cowboys beat Texas nine times in the last 14 meetings after downing the Longhorns just twice in the previous 24.

On the Cowboys’ climb toward conference supremacy, one major goal remained irritatingly unattainable. Though the balance of power in the Bedlam rivalry had been leaning OSU’s way with two wins in the last three years, OU’s overall dominance dulled the recent orange tint of the series.

But the tectonic plates of college football have shifted. OU is off to the Southeastern Conference, and the Cowboys are in position to emerge from the Sooners’ long shadow in a new Big 12 that lacks blueblood power at the top.



When the 18th-ranked Cowboys open the season against South Dakota State at 1 p.m. on Aug. 31 at Boone Pickens Stadium, they embark on a season that will not include Bedlam.

The haunting feeling of a potential loss to OU ruining an otherwise great season no longer sits in the pit of OSU fans’ stomachs.

Bedlam is a tale of bygone days, and the sun shines a little brighter at Boone Pickens Stadium.

“If you look at what this program has done under Coach Gundy’s leadership, certainly going back to 2010, we’re winning like a blueblood,” OSU athletic director Chad Weiberg said. “We’re top 10 in the number of wins, and if you look at the list of who the other nine are, it’s everybody you would think.

“Then there we are. So our goal is to keep winning at that level.”

The Big 12 looks like a league built for wide-ranging competitiveness thanks to an evenly balanced collection of programs. Yet the Cowboys have shown a consistency over the past 14 years that few teams can match.


“I think that we've got a number of teams in this league that have an opportunity to make a move national,” Gundy said at Big 12 Media Days last month. “Whether anybody can take over and dominate for an extended period of time would be hard to tell at this point.”

Perhaps new rivals await OSU in the latest version of the Big 12, like newcomers Utah or Arizona. Maybe familiar faces like Kansas State or Texas Tech.

Or could this simply be the time for OSU to forget about rivalries and focus on trophies?

OSU has just one Big 12 title in the league’s 28-year history, but the landscape feels ripe for a program to establish itself as a standard-bearer of the conference. And OSU’s recent trend is heading in the right direction.

“Our goal is being in the championship game every single year,” Weiberg said. “We came out of the previous version of the Big 12 Conference, as we knew it then, by reaching that game two of the last three years. So we want to continue that kind of success.

“We want to carry the momentum we have coming out of that version of the Big 12 into the new version of the Big 12 and keep rolling with that kind of success.”

2024 OSU football schedule​

• Week 1: OSU vs. South Dakota State, 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 31 (ESPN+)
• Week 2: OSU vs. Arkansas, 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 7 (ABC)
• Week 3: OSU at Tulsa, 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 14 (ESPN2)
• Week 4: OSU vs. Utah, TBA Saturday, Sept. 21
• Week 5: OSU at Kansas State, TBA Saturday, Sept. 28
• Week 6: OSU vs. West Virginia, TBA Saturday, Oct. 5
• Week 7: Bye week
• Week 8: OSU at BYU, 9:15 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18 (ESPN)
• Week 9: OSU at Baylor, TBA Saturday, Oct. 26
• Week 10: OSU vs. Arizona State, TBA Saturday, Nov. 2
• Week 11: OSU at TCU, TBA Saturday, Nov. 9
• Week 12: Bye week
• Week 13: OSU vs. Texas Tech, TBA Saturday, Nov. 23
• Week 14: OSU at Colorado, 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 29 (ABC)

on fire!!!

We mourn the change.

Those people voted for him hoping he would bring the jobs back. There is a huge entity stopping those jobs from coming back. The American south is standing in the way with their taxation, cost of living, work laws and even education level.

There may not be much he can do about it. Could also lose those states despite overwhelming success in other parts of the country.

Read away:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-south-insight-idUSKBN1790HO