Just saw the fall football roster. This kid (Ayo Shotomide-King) was listed under WR:

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Looks like an athlete. I assume he walked on at OSU but his social account listed some smaller school offers.

He looks the part and at 6’4 215 he is the biggest WR listed on the roster. His highlight video shows some impressive catches. Listed as a sophomore maybe he can develop and get some time one day.

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Bill Haisten: No Bedlam, no Texas and no problem for Oklahoma State​

• Aug 1, 2024 Updated Aug 1, 2024

• Bill Haisten​

  Tulsa World Sports Columnist & Writer

At Iowa State in 2007, there was athletic director Jamie Pollard’s introduction of a new football season-ticket policy.
One Cyclone home football game would be designated as the premium game on the schedule. Iowa State fans could attend that game only if they had purchased a season ticket.
The result was a striking 19% increase. The 2006 total had been 30,728. The 2007 total was 36,606. For the 2004 Cyclone season, the season-ticket sales total had been less than 23,000.


Iowa State officials were impressed by the 2007 spike in sales and revenue, and so was one of Pollard’s Big 12 Conference colleagues — then-Oklahoma State athletic director Mike Holder, who decided to borrow the Iowa State model.

Before the 2008 season, OSU activated its own premium-game ticket policy. In any season that included OU on the Boone Pickens Stadium schedule, Bedlam was the premium game. On non-Bedlam home schedules, Texas typically would be the premium-game opponent.

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In 2023, for the first time in school history, Oklahoma State sold out on all football season tickets before the start of the season. There no longer is a Bedlam or Texas game on the home schedule, but OSU again has sold out all season tickets for this year’s six games at Boone Pickens Stadium.
Daniel Shular, Tulsa World Archive
The combination of sustained Cowboy winning, the annual sellout status on 123 stadium luxury suites and Holder’s season-ticket policy elevated OSU to previously unimaginable levels on football revenue.

For the 2006 season, Oklahoma State sold only 32,903 football season tickets. The 2007 total was 33,400.
After Holder’s policy took effect, the totals were 39,476 in 2008 and 45,952 in 2009. In 2013 and 2017, OSU surpassed the 50,000 mark.

As renovations resulted in a reduction of the stadium’s capacity, there may never again be a 50,000 milestone. This year’s capacity is 52,000. The season opens with OSU’s Aug. 31 hosting of two-time defending FCS champion South Dakota State.

The 2023 OSU home schedule included the final clash of the Cowboys and Sooners as conference rivals. The premium policy was enforced. For the first time in OSU history, football season tickets were sold out before the opening game.

It’ll be a while — and maybe a really long while – before OU or Texas is on an Oklahoma State home football schedule, and still the OSU athletic department is celebrating another preseason sellout of football season tickets.

All 2024 season tickets have been sold. Within a few more days, the remaining single-game tickets will be gone.

Here’s an under-the-radar piece of the story: For the first time since 2007, there was no premium-game policy on OSU football tickets. Holder was the athletic director in 2005-21, and he always hoped for a time when OSU fans would become so conditioned to purchasing football season tickets that the policy would not be necessary.
That time is now, and the 2024 ticket-sales triumph becomes another layer of the ongoing “OSU has become a football school” process.

Oklahoma State’s premium-game policy may be used again at some point, but for now, athletic director Chad Weiberg told the Tulsa World, it isn’t necessary.


“Right now, we don’t feel like we need it,” Weiberg said. “Here we are — we’re going to sell out before the season kicks (off).”
The Cowboys’ five additional 2024 home-game opponents are Arkansas (Sept. 7) and, in Big 12 play, Utah (Sept. 21), West Virginia (Oct. 5), Arizona State (Nov. 2) and Texas Tech (Nov. 23).
The 2008 Bedlam game matched an 11th-ranked Cowboy team with the third-ranked Sooners at Boone Pickens Stadium. The stakes were high for a prime-time, nationally televised showdown, and yet there was nearly as much talk during the week about Holder’s ticket policy as there was about the game itself.

From both sides of the rivalry, Holder was inundated with protests. OU had been given an allotment of 5,000 tickets, each of which was priced at $100. If you weren’t the bearer of one of those, you weren’t admitted unless your Bedlam ticket was part of an OSU season-ticket package.


To Cowboy and Sooner fans, and in spite of Bedlam having been the final game of the regular season, OSU actually sold a few season tickets that week. The game attendance wound up being 49,031. OSU’s 2008 home games against Troy, Baylor and Texas A&M drew bigger crowds.
“It’s not about just this game. It’s about our future,” Holder told the Tulsa World before the 2008 Bedlam game. “(OSU fans who) are on the fence for season tickets, we need to get them to buy in and get with the program on a season-ticket basis.”
Because Holder’s policy coincided with the golden age of OSU football, attendance and revenue have remained consistently strong.
“Our rationale was the same as Oklahoma State’s,” Pollard told the Tulsa World years ago. “If you do the same thing that you’ve always done, you get the same results that you’ve always gotten.”

Holder rolled the dice on something different and initially unpopular. It changed the Oklahoma State people’s mind-set on ticket-buying and being in Stillwater for every home football game.
Except for the COVID-impacted season of 2020, there was for each of the last 14 OSU seasons a home-attendance average of no less than 50,812. In eight of those seasons, the average was at least 54,000.
No Bedlam.
No Texas.
No problem.
The Cowboy program can lose the arch-rival Sooners and the Longhorns from future schedules and still expect to pack the stadium each week.

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Photos: Oklahoma State football practice and media day​

• Daniel Shular
• Aug 3, 2024 Updated 10 hrs ago

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Former Sooner Gavin Freeman explains decision to transfer to Oklahoma State​

Tyler Waldrep​

OSU Sports Writer

TILLWATER — Oklahoma State wide receiver Gavin Freeman was among the first Cowboys to walk in for interviews during Saturday’s Media Day. He sat down off to the side like he was anyone else on the team.
Of course, that isn’t exactly true, considering he caught passes and returned punts last season for the Oklahoma Sooners.
“Every so often I look (at the orange uniform) and it is definitely weird for sure, but I couldn’t be happier,” Freeman said.



The 5-8, 185-pound receiver finished sixth among Sooners wide receivers running only 72 routes last season, with 64 coming in the slot. Freeman made the most of his workload, ending the year with 19 receptions for 95 yards and a touchdown.


“I was probably going to be splitting reps a lot 50-50,” Freeman said. “I didn’t want to do that again and … I wanted to come to a place where I could redshirt.”

If he redshirts, Freeman will likely still push for playing time as a punt returner this fall. He took snaps at that position during practice on Saturday, and he returned 18-of-21 punts for Oklahoma last year for one score and an average gain of 6.8 yards, which ranked 35th in the nation last season.

“The portal transfers and the young players are going to have to spend more time on their own in the evening, prior to school starting, to play catch-up,” Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy said. “It’s going to move really fast. It’s just the way it is sometimes. I don’t anticipate many of those guys being the impact in the first few games of the season, anyway, just because we have so many returning players.”

All those returners will push the Cowboys through the installation process this fall at a break-neck pace compared to other seasons. That puts players like Freeman in something of a steeper hole than usual, but the new Cowboy is ready.


“I’m a rep guy and a fail guy, so if I fail it, then it will be in my mind,” Freeman said. “But also I have ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder). So, it is harder sometimes, but like I will write it down cause I got to get it in my mind. I will rep it a couple times for me to really get it.”
On Saturday, Gundy confirmed that Freeman would compete for time in the slot this season while adding that his new receiver could jump 36.5 inches.

“He’s done really well,” Gundy said. “Players have rallied around him. He seems to be comfortable here. He’s a good addition for us. He’s an interesting player. He ran 22 mph in five games at this level, which is very unusual. He’s got a lot of raw ability.”
Of course, that speed would be extremely useful on special teams this fall. Gundy struggled to find willing punt returners in the past, but that won’t be an issue with Freeman.

“Just because I feel like that is probably one of my favorite parts of my game,” Freeman said. “It is one of my strong suits as well. Just being able to showcase my abilities. … I’m happy to do it.”

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Transfer trio fighting for playing time as Oklahoma State football wraps up first week of fall camp​

• Aug 3, 2024 Updated 11 hrs ago

Tyler Waldrep​

OSU Sports Writer

TILLWATER — Oklahoma State is a modern anomaly overflowing with experienced returners, but that didn’t stop a few newcomers from pushing for playing time during Saturday’s practice.
Transfer running back Trent Howland (Indiana) went third in running back drills behind reigning Doak Walker award-winner Ollie Gordon and the team’s second-most experienced returning back Sesi Vailhai, respectively.
When the backs split into two groups to work on handoffs, the 6-3, 240-pound Howland remained with Gordon and Vailhai to work with quarterbacks Alan Bowman, Garret Rangel and Zane Flores.
The other four running backs formed a line starting with redshirt freshman Hudson Devins and worked with freshmen quarterbacks Maealiuaki Smith and Garret Wilson.

During warmups and most drills observed, Bowman led the quarterbacks, with Rangel, Flores, Smith and Wilson lining up behind him in order.

Transfer wide receivers Gavin Freeman (Oklahoma) and Da’Wain Lofton (Virginia Tech) took snaps as punt returners, a position for which Gundy previously struggled to find volunteers.

Freeman returned 18 of the Sooners’ 21 punts last season for one touchdown and an average gain of 6.8 yards.
Lofton did not return a punt last season, but he did return two kicks for an average gain of 17.5 yards.
Freeman appeared to be third in line when working on returns, putting him one spot ahead of Lofton.


Last year’s leading returner, Brennan Presley, was ahead of both, while receiver Cale Cabbiness appeared to go first at times.
Regardless of his spot in the line, Cabbiness stood out amongst his peers as something of a giant with his 6-2, 205-pound frame.

That put him at least 20 pounds heavier and three inches taller than any of his fellow returners.
When the receivers split into two lines, Presley led one line with De’Zhaun Stribling, Talyn Shettron, Ty Walls, Kyler Pearson, Freeman, Tre Griffiths and Braden Baize following him in order.


Trent Howland

Senior Rashod Owens led the other line with Cabbiness, Lofton and Mason Gilkey consistently following behind him in order. Camron Heard, Jalen Pope, Ayo Shotomide-King, Tykie Andrews and Cutter Greene rounded out the end of the second line in some order.

Bill Haisten: OSU's perfect counter to a tough schedule – uncommon experience​

TILLWATER — There are markers indicating that 2024 could be special, but I’m not hearing much talk about the difficulty of Oklahoma State’s August-September schedule. It’s loaded with challenges.
Before the Cowboys roll into October, they will have faced the two-time defending FCS champion South Dakota State Jackrabbits (Aug. 31 in Stillwater), the big-and-fast Arkansas Razorbacks (Sept. 7 in Stillwater), the Tulsa Golden Hurricane (Sept. 14 in Tulsa) and the teams picked to finish 1-2 in the Big 12: preseason favorite Utah (Sept. 21 in Stillwater) and Kansas State (Sept. 28 in Manhattan).
When OSU last visited K-State, the result was shocking — a 48-0 Wildcat victory.

Since 2008, OSU’s Mike Gundy is 52-12 in August-September games. If he is destined to be 57-12, his 20th Cowboy season could be a College Football Playoff season.

Because the schedule is front-loaded with quality opponents, Oklahoma State picked a great year to have what may be the most experienced team in college football.

Gundy and his staff are working with 21 returning starters. This statistic would have been remarkable in any decade, but it’s astounding now that the transfer portal has such a pronounced impact on rosters.

“It’s crazy,” said Alan Bowman, now a seventh-year college football quarterback and a second-year Cowboy. “It’s a testament to the culture that coach Gundy has built. You see so many guys flying into the portal, and even after spring ball. Shoot, in Week 10 of a season, a team might already have 15 guys in the portal.

“We had no starters leave. We had a couple of guys transfer because of playing time. That happens. But when your main crew is coming back — it’s a statement about the culture here.”

During the first month of the 2023 season, those Cowboys scrambled to forge an identity and actually opened the season with a three-quarterback rotation. Bowman didn’t secure the starting role until the fourth game.

“We have a difficult nonconference schedule,” Gundy said during OSU’s Media Day event on Saturday. “Experience is going to help us in this area — to move forward a little quicker than what we have over the last few years.”

On page 7 of the OSU football media guide is a striking sentence: “The 2024 Cowboy offensive line is likely the most experienced line in college football history.”

I have a vivid memory of desperate Cowboy coaching staffs that, because of injuries and a lack of depth, would plug an inexperienced and decidedly unprepared player into the offensive line.

Unless these Cowboys set a world record for big-man injuries, there won’t be that problem this year.

The average age of OSU’s offensive linemen: 23½.
Their combined body of work: 284 major-college games played and 200 starts.

OSU has 23-year-old linemen blocking for Bowman, a 24-year-old quarterback.
By the end of the 2014 season, that Cowboy team had a first-year freshman starting quarterback (Mason Rudolph) playing behind an offensive line that gave up 40 sacks.

After several years of uneven performances up front, Oklahoma State may now have an offensive line that resembles in quality the lines of 2006-12 — when the Cowboys always were among Big 12 leaders in rushing yards and fewest sacks allowed.

OSU was picked to finish third in the Big 12. If the 2024 Cowboy offensive line is at a 2006-12 level, and if Ollie Gordon is healthy and available every weekend as a game-changing running back, this OSU team will win the Big 12 championship.

Before there’s an October-November bid to secure what would be the program’s first conference title since 2011, however, there is the matter of getting past South Dakota State, Arkansas, Tulsa, Utah and K-State.

Seven previous Gundy-coached Cowboy teams arrived at October with a perfect record. It happened in 2008, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2020, 2021 and 2022. The 2010 and 2011 Cowboys had more offensive firepower than the 2024 Cowboys, but none of those seven teams had the experience of this team. These are the same guys who last season won Bedlam and finished with 10 wins.
Joe Michalski is a fifth-year senior center and a veteran of 47 games played and 23 starts. The Kansas City, Kansas, native is the most highly regarded of the OSU offensive linemen and ended the 2023 season with quite a distinction: With a total of 1,035, he was on the field for more offensive snaps than any other power-conference player in the nation.

During his Q&A with reporters on Saturday, Michalski discussed the rarity of Oklahoma State’s incredibly experienced roster. O-line teammates Dalton Cooper and Jake Springfield have a combined total of 89 starts. Preston Wilson and Cole Birmingham have a total of 50.
Eventually, Gundy faces an extensive rebuild. This year, though, there is the best-case scenario: veterans in every position group.

“We have something special here — something you don’t see a lot in college football and maybe something you won’t see again for a long time,” Michalski said.
He paused before closing his commentary and this column by saying, “We have to capitalize on all of this.”

What Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy said at Cowboys' media day​

Scott Wright
The Oklahoman

STILLWATER — The first day in shoulder pads felt different for Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy on Saturday.

With roughly 20 returning starters, and several returning backups, the start of preseason camp didn’t feel quite so new.

But the level of experience the Cowboys return this year will be a key tool, particularly early in the season with a challenging early schedule.

“We have a difficult nonconference schedule, so experience is gonna help us move forward a little quicker than normal,” Gundy said Saturday at OSU football media day at Gallagher-Iba Arena.

“We’ve moved forward on more of a six-day install than a 10-day install. It allows us to get more into a football mode than a teaching mode by the middle of next week.”

That experience is particularly notable on the offensive line with eight players who have started games in a power conference.

“In my 20 years as a head coach we haven’t had the ability to rotate many of those guys,” Gundy said of the offensive line. “Now we’ve got a number of guys that have played and we can rotate guys and keep some of them fresh. And if we do get a guy that gets banged up, we don’t have to hold our breath every play.”

Here are a few other takeaways from Gundy’s press conference and Saturday’s practice:

A.J. Green unlikely to contribute much with injury​

Gundy doesn’t anticipate transfer running back A.J. Green being involved much this season because of a serious lower leg injury sustained late in spring.

Green has a redshirt year available and could return for the 2025 season.

The former Arkansas running back, who is originally from Tulsa, arrived in January as a key transfer addition as the Cowboys tried to build depth behind star running back Ollie Gordon II.

Without Green, the Cowboys have just two experienced running backs behind the reigning Doak Walker Award winner Ollie Gordon II. Sesi Vailahi played in four games while redshirting last year, and Trent Howland transferred from Indiana in June.

That means one or both of the true freshmen from the 2024 signing class could be needed to add depth. Rodney Fields Jr. from Oklahoma City and Jaden Allen-Hendrix from Columbia, South Carolina, arrived in June.

“I think we’re in a better situation than we were at this time last year, in my opinion,” Gundy said. “Ollie’s going to have to carry the load, but hopefully not as much as he did last year.”

Coaching staff has grown with rule change​

Over the summer, the NCAA adopted a rule allowing analysts and other support staff to participate in on-field coaching during practice and games.

So veteran coaches like Stan Eggan and Greg Brown — both of whom began their coaching careers more than 40 years ago — can interact with players during workouts, which was previously not allowed.

Gundy hired former Kansas State assistant Sean Snyder, the son of K-State legend Bill Snyder, as a special teams assistant as well.

“This guy can help the kickers and punters with the technical side of that,” Gundy said. “I would say the meetings I have been in with him have been very impressive. I never coached with his father, but when I listen to him talk and coach, it sounds a lot like his dad.”

Kendal Daniels getting consistent linebacker work (Not as heavy as I read in another article)​

According to the roster, Kendal Daniels is still a safety, but the 6-foot-4, 235-pound redshirt junior continues to spend practice time with the linebackers and position coach Joe Bob Clements.

Gundy expects Daniels to remain in his usual middle safety spot, but also be used as a linebacker at times, based on what he shows in practice over the next few weeks.


“He’s doing good,” Gundy said. “We’re moving Kendal around. He learned a lot of things last year. He’s one of the players I’m excited about watching this year.”

Boone Pickens Stadium nearly ready​

With just under a month left until the Aug. 31 season opener against South Dakota State, the offseason improvements to Boone Pickens Stadium are nearly complete.
A large portion of the south bleachers was redone, with new seating and reorganized sections to add leg room and additional aisles for easier access.

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This is who Democrat voters want to run the country? SMFH

of $7.2 million for a new airport terminal. That's going to be a big help on many levels. Stillwater one of many airports to receive funding.

You can’t make this up.

Hmmm, not as innocent as someone likes to portray.