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🚨 WARNING: VENT SESSION. 🚨 The latest Makin' It Rain just dropped, and we let the diehard emotion of our fanhood loose. No sugarcoating. No excuses. Just frustration and a whole lot of emotion from start to finish in this one. Well, and a whole lot of rambling on that is probably more therapy for us than anything. If you're wanting more of a silver lining, or positivity, this one is probably not for you. If you don't want that, I understand, but I sure feel better now!😂 🎙️ Makin’ It Rain is LIVE. https://youtu.be/04CsMJdkU3w #OKState #GoPokes #OStateDaily #MakinItRain
Makin' It Rain...We Let the Emotions Loss & We Vent!
If you wanna see what accountability and leadership look like, check out the postgame comments from Drew Mestemaker... WOW! Moving forward, he has to back up his words on the field. Otherwise, words become empty, but the way he handled the disappointment was very impressive. Not gonna lie! Also not gonna hold back! Drew makes 3.5 million dollars, which is a very difficult figure for OSU to meet. And what makes it particularly difficult is having enough funds to build the roster around him and provide the depth you need. I hate to put undue pressure on him, but nobody can take that piece of it away from him. He has to be able to deal with the expectations that come with that salary and perform. It reminds me of a college baseball player who is draft-eligible. You want to do well for your team, no question, but there's also a personal-gain element to it. In Drew's case, he surely feels the pressure to live up to the paycheck, and that has the potential to be a "me" emotion inside a team game, even if you are the farthest thing from a "me" person. Which I think we can safely say Drew has 0 "me" in him, so, again, that has always had the potential to be a weird thing to deal with. Yesterday was 29-49, 241 yards, 1 TD, a fumble, and a pick. It just wasn't a good performance. Let's call it what it is. And I'm gonna say this too: when you're making that kind of money, the expectations are going to be different. Fans aren't going to have the same "kid gloves" they might have had with college athletes in the past. That's part of the deal. So now Drew has to do exactly what he said he was going to do: get back to playing ball. Play to his potential, win games, and let the performance speak for itself. The faster he can rip that Band-Aid off and get back to playing ball, the better things get. #GoPokes #OkState
Drew Mestemaker Takes Accountability After Tulsa Disaster
Coach Morris is a straight shooter, no question, and so let's follow that lead. So, we mentioned in the pregame yesterday that if yesterday did not have a good presentation, all of the OSU fans who feel jaded with what happened to Coach Gundy would come out in force. And that has happened. Here's the deal! He's not our coach anymore. There's no need to get back into the weeds of that situation on social media, but if you want a lengthy segment on why things had to happen, check out my postgame reactions on YouTube. So, if you're one of those people, here's my question for you... What do we do now? Think of it as an umpire and a manager arguing. When does it stop and everyone move on to the next play? You can't argue for the rest of eternity, and there comes a point where, even if you're right, you're doing more harm than good. So, again, are you going to continue to be a fan, or are you going to take your ball and go home after one game in a new era with 92 new players? As per Coach Morris, it was a terrible debut, and there's just no other way to put it. There was nothing about yesterday that will motivate OSU fans to be excited about this new brand, or Coach Morris in particular. And that's disappointing because he's a terrific coach. I still believe he's 1000% the right guy for OSU, and he's going to get this program turned around. But that's only if we let him, which means not jumping off a cliff after one game. It's okay to be so blown up right now that you can't see straight. That just means you care! But don't take it past that. Leave the "let's fire a guy after one game" out of the equation. It's crazy talk, and it's based on emotion, not sound analysis. And it does OSU absolutely NO good! But back to the game. We played slow, we were lethargic, we looked disinterested, and anything but confident. And the play calling, IMO, was in a "phone booth" way more than I thought we'd see. We didn't stretch the field much, and we didn't throw to our tight end in the middle of the field like I hoped we'd see return to an OSU offense. We didn't hit receivers in position to get yards after the catch, specifically with them moving vertically so they can have a head of steam, and we threw sideways way too much. We didn't block, and our RBs didn't bust their own holes. Mestemaker either held on to the ball too long, dumped it too fast, threw off the back foot, or heaved up late balls across his body while scrambling against drop-8 coverage. Our defensive performance in the 1st half was probably the only somewhat of a silver lining. But it too gave up over 100 yards rushing in the 2nd half to a team that won 4 games last year with a G6 schedule. They also gave up over 6.4 yards per play, while we averaged only 4.3. So I can't count that as an overall silver lining either. We turned the ball over 3 times, didn't win a 50/50 ball right before the half in man coverage, and then had a stupid penalty from one of my favorite players that gave them a 2nd chance to punch in a touchdown, which they did. We needed momentum, and special teams could have been an area where we could have gained some, but we didn't do anything there either. This was a disaster ALL the way around! There's just no other way to analyze this. But it's one game, just the 1st game of an Era that I still believe is going to be successful. And, to make sure we're ALL accountable, I have over-hyped this offense and didn't see any way that Tulsa would stop us. That's on me... My bad! I eat that the same way Drew will eat his performance, or Coach Morris, or anyone else. This team can still end up being what he hoped it would, but obviously the timeline has changed. So, now we have to transition into a "growth" mindset, which, TBH, is disappointing when you pay the QB $3.5 million dollars. But it is what it is! See ya' next week at Boone Pickens! #GoPokes #OkState
Oklahoma State Was a DISASTER vs. Tulsa… But It’s Only ONE Game
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OState Daily Live: Huge Beatdown, Future of the Program, Expectations Moving Forward
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Tulsa Pregame Show...What Do You Want to See in the Eric Morris Debut?
We are just MINUTES away from kicking off the Eric Morris era, and if you needed any more reason to be excited, just listen to Dalton Wasserman. Wasserman is legit, so when he's THIS excited about so many pieces of this roster, it makes me want to keep a constant supply of orange Kool-Aid handy at ALL times. And I AIN'T AFRAID to drink it on up either. 😂 Dalton talks about Mestemaker, Hawkins, Bowick and the receiver corps, how highly ranked they are right now, and how highly ranked they could become. This clip gets me FIRED UP! LFG!!! 🤠🔥 #GoPokes #OkState
Dalton Wasserman Gets OSU Fans FIRED UP Before the Eric Morris Era Begins!
Tulsa is a team that's going to want to play with pace, but not necessarily on Saturday. That's because if they get into a race and the possessions pile up for OSU, they're going to have a hard time keeping up. So, the key for them will be finding the perfect balance between possessing the ball to keep the OSU offense off the field, but then picking the right spots to put the pedal down when they have OSU tilted. Tulsa, I think, has to concede to OSU in several areas where OSU is just going to do what OSU does. That's a baked-in “OSU must be better” type of concept, and I think that's a fair statement to make. But that doesn't mean they're automatically going to win. Tulsa is very capable of making this a game. And the longer they hang around, who in the heck knows how this team of “misfits,” as Coach Morris calls them, will handle that? Or how well all these new players will be able to stay organized when the real bullets start flying and they have to go off-script. And then, the first game is always stressful because you have NO IDEA what to expect in a lot of ways. It's gonna be fun. Can't wait! #GoPokes #OKState
Can Tulsa Hang Around Long Enough to Test OSU? 👀
Dalton Wasserman of the Preferred Walk-On Podcast uses an even balance between analytics and the eye test. We see it in weather all the time. No matter how many models you run, without a human being there to create the proper context for that data, it can become anywhere from inaccurate to useless. So, the “eye test” will NEVER go away. Good coaches know how to interpret data and then chunk it down into bites their players can actually absorb. And that's different for every player. Having said that, the BEST coaches also know when to throw the notebook in the trash and use their “eyes” and their “feel” at critical points in a game. So, I say all of that to say this: Analysts like Wasserman are my go-tos. They don't just compile the data. They take the time to figure out what it actually means in terms of performance. And part of that equation is understanding the value of FIT — sometimes even more than measurables. This OSU staff has built a roster with plenty of impressive tangible measurables, but Wasserman agrees that perhaps the most exciting part of this team's potential is how well all the pieces seem to fit together. Think about this: This roster has OVER 90 new players. Yet by the 2nd scrimmage, they were mostly evaluating who the depth pieces were because they ALREADY had a very good idea who the starters were. Holy WOW. And that doesn't happen unless these guys were recruited with a tremendous amount of FIT in mind. For the full Wasserman Podcast, click below 👇 https://youtu.be/6fN83jvcCUk
Dalton Wasserman on OSU's 90+ New Players, Analytics & the Importance of FIT
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