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Coming This Week on Pokes Report - Taking Stock on the Future of Cowboy Football

November 10, 2024
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STILLWATER – Next to Mike Gundy, that man is the most important to the future or Oklahoma State football. Head coach Mike Gundy hired former Oklahoma State and NFL linebacker Kenyatta Wright to be the Director of Finance for Oklahoma State football.. That job title could also be general manager or personnel director. Director of recruiting Todd Bradford has a role in all of this as do others in the West End Zone. Starting December with the early signing day in recruiting followed immediately by the transfer portal window opening we are all about the see the biggest change in rosters in the history of college football, honestly, in the history of sports. 

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Next season the roster will look very different.

The spring official settlement of the House vs. NCAA class-action suit and the soon-to-be enforced roster limit (105) and revenue sharing as laid out in the House vs. NCAA settlement. That would allow universities to establish pools of up to approximately $21.5 million in the first year to distribute to athletes through a revenue-sharing plan. 

The $21.5 million reflects 22% of the average revenue that Power 5 schools generate through media rights, tickets and other sources related to athletics. The total and the equation that brings the total will be reevaluated every 10 years, and athletes can still make NIL deals with outside groups in addition to being directly compensated. 

Oklahoma State, like msot schools, will continue to build some of its’ football roster through recruiting high school and junior college athletes, but likely a lot fewer as most of the roster will come through transfer portal athletes. This December is expected to be, by a huge amount, the most football athletes ever in the portal including many at blue blood and successful programs. The reason, simple, athletes will be checking out what their value is. 

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Much of the offensive line starters from this season will exhaust eligiblity.

Most schools have been preparing for this by evaluating and placing value and need on players across the NCAA and at all levels from FBS, FCS, to even Division II. Remember, in the 2023-24 portal cycle and window Oklahoma State found wide receiver Leon Johnson II from Division III. 

Pokes Report will be looking over the Oklahoma State roster and speculating what changes could occur. There are 25 players that will leave the program through exhausted eligibility, but there will likely be more as Oklahoma State currently has a roster of approximately 140 and will need to meet the 105 limit for next school year.

Come along as we try to anticpate what is going to happen in this upcoming massive transition. 

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Coming This Week on Pokes Report - Taking Stock on the Future of Cowboy Football

4,165 Views | 10 Replies | Last: 10 days ago by CProc7
JPat
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Whatever. OSU football sucks, and will next year.
PokeSmot75
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JPat said:

Whatever. OSU football sucks, and will next year.


Sad but true. I'm not seeing light at the end of this tunnel.
72Cowboys
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College football as we have known it is dead.
Orangeheart72
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Anybody been watching Vanderbilt, ASU or CU? The portal can change your team faster than the KU miracle. OSU's fortunes will change a lot if they can aquire 3 or 4 very good linemen on both sides of the ball and the qb position gets squared away with a run/pass capable qb. Problem will be.....every team has been watching Vanderbilt, ASU and Colorado. But it will be interesting.
SEO_Poke
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I am as faithful as they come and try to be as loyal I can, but it's time to cut ties with some coaches. I'm thankful for what they have done but it's not working and time to make some serious changes in my opinion. Will always be Loyal and True, but looking for some change.
CProc7
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They have to be the first thing to go. I'm going to assume Dunn is going to get a pass because of bad qb play but I hope not. Nardo HAS to go. It hasn't worked at all we are the worst defense in college football. If Gundy won't get with the times he can go too.
Joe Khatib
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Bingo! 60 percent of next year's team will be totally new players! Probably 50 to 55 new players and the rest holdovers deemed worthy to stay on the team!!!
rcfb
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They better not give Dunn a pass. In last 5-6 years, he has shown zero improvement in his ability to adjust. He is below average OC at best. Has like 3-4 good games a season and just gets by every year.

With his OC/AHC duties, slacking with WRs coaching too. Which part of having one of the worst offense in 2022 an 2024 in big 12 makes Gundy think that we would want to retain Dunn?

Whole Oline of 7th year seniors, 7th year QB who went to CCG last year, Doak walker RB and this is the offense he produced this year. If he cant get better offense out of our players this year, he will never work out. He already overstayed the OC spot by 2 years. Should have been gone after 2022.
Inquisitor
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Our mistake was believing that last years team was good. It was very average squad, particularly on the lines, and won many close games with smoke and mirrors. Everyone we have played with the exception of Tulsa loaded up in the transfer portal and simply whipped us up front. Arkansas, Utah, West Virginia, and others threw us around like rag dolls. Stubborn.

We also stuck with 2 coordinators that were average or below average. Stubborn.

We decided to stick with some very average 3 star recruits on both lines, and did not beef up our LB's or DB's sufficiently. It caught up to us when we had several key injuries and could not count on one of our stars to bail us out at the end.

This is the stubborn Gundy way that we all have been pushing back against for 20 years. Yes he has won, but he has also lost many games he could have won by simply being more creative and flexible. Will he ever learn?

CProc7
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I'm completely with you he should go, but I just worry he won't. Charlie Dickey is the Oline coach and people wanted his job before this year so I assume this doesn't help. Gundy should bring his brother in to help with recruiting and coaching. We finally paid up for a couple defensive coordinators and they both left. They were better than we have now, so maybe we go back to paying up for good coaches.
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