Reports: Oklahoma State receiver commitment Chance Allen signs with Oregon
Concerns that three-star receiver Chance Allen could be leaning late to Oregon were well-founded.
Allen signed with Oregon early Wednesday, according to multiple media reports.
Allen, of Missouri City, Texas, committed to Oklahoma State on an official visit two weeks ago. But his official visit to Oregon last week with his best friend Bralon Addison, a four-star receiver and Texas A&M commit, apparently convinced both to switch. Multiple reports today indicate both have signed with Oregon. What prompted the switch: Chip Kelly’s assurances that he wasn’t jumping to the NFL didn’t hurt.
Still, Oklahoma State has plenty of pass-catching recruits coming in.
OSU football commitment Trace Clark video highlights
I realize that high school recruiting videos showcase only a player at his best. But this video features eight and a half minutes of Wichita, Kan. defensive end Trace Clark, Oklahoma State’s latest commitment, mauling people. That’s a lot of mauling.
Clark comes from a family of athletes. His father, Stevan, was played at Kansas State and was as defensive end for the New England Patriots in the early 1980s. His brother, Zac, is a senior defensive tackle at Oregon. His two sisters are or were Division I volleyball players. Here’s an interview with Trace Clarke as a sophomore talking about his football future.
Cool love hair, sort of an Anderson Varejao look.
Oklahoma State football: Mike Gundy says if the Cowboys win Bedlam they’d be “a great opponent” in the BCS title game
Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy gave one of his final pre-Bedlam interviews today, appearing on The Doug Gottlieb Show on ESPN Radio. Here’s some excerpts of that interview:
On why he didn’t campaign for OSU at his weekly press conference, instead saying he’d vote for Alabama “right now”:
“We haven’t won a conference championship here outright at Oklahoma State. I’ve talked to the team about staying focused and preparation.
I felt like there was a lot of talk about playing in the BCS game and I’ve worried about that all season. If we had three or four championships here under our belt, I feel like I could talk about it. I didn’t want to say one thing to the press and tell our team another… If we win this game I hope other people realize we would be a great opponent to play in that (BCS title) game.”
On whether there’s any more or less pressure involved with Saturday’s Bedlam game in Stillwater (7 p.m. ABC):
“I think anybody that tries to say there’s not pressure is giving you coach talk. I watched the pressure mount throughout this season, and our team did a good job of dealing with it… I know there’s pressure because this team has the chance to win a conference title for the first time in school history.”
On what went wrong at Iowa State:
“You turn the ball over five times on the road, even if you feel like you have the best team, you’re going to give the other team a chance to stay in the game.”
On allowing Justin Blackmon to participate in Senior Day:
“He’s almost guaranteed to be a top 5 or top 10 pick. I thought what a shame for him not to be able to walk out on that field with his parents for his last home game. But there’s nothing in writing here. If he wants to come back we’ll have a scholarship for him.”
On who’s better Dez Bryant or Blackmon:
“(Blackmon’s) going to leave here as the best player.”
By Mike Sherman, Sports Editor
Twitter: @MikeSherman
OSU Gameday images: What’s with the devil horns?
Mark Denker watches OSU warm up during a college football game between the Oklahoma State Cowboys (OSU) and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL) Ragin' Cajuns at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011. Photo by Sarah Phipps, The Oklahoman ORG XMIT: KOD
– Mike Sherman, Sports Editor
Twitter: @MikeSherman
Email: msherman@opubco.com
Look what else Oklahoma State is unveiling Saturday night
Check out Oklahoma State’s new commercial “America’s Brightest Orange.” Probably well-timed since Texas and Tennessee aren’t in the best position at the moment for rebuttals broadcast during college football games.
Brandon Weeden, GQ as in *Gentleman Quarterback
Brandon Weeden is raising his profile — and changing it too. His Twitter profile, that is.
Apparently the Oklahoma State’s quarterback — @bweeden3 on Twitter — has some mad Photoshop skills, too.
Another example of athletes having fun interacting with fans. Is it just me, or has Twitter forced college football coaches to loosen up?
Mike Sherman
Sports Editor
email: msherman@oklahoman.com
twitter: @MikeSherman
Ex-Oklahoma State assistant battles cancer: Why Gunter Brewer always dresses for winter
Even in the August heat, Oklahoma State assistant coach Gunter Brewer dresses for winter.
Long pants. Hat, long-sleeve shirts. Several layers of shirts, three at a minimum.
It’s what you do when you’ve had seven to 10 surgeries to combat skin cancer.
This isn’t something Brewer, now in his first season as receivers coach at Ole Miss, publicized during his years in Stillwater. Brewer spent three years at OSU. A quick Google search of “Gunter Brewer” and “cancer” today returned nothing from his days with the Cowboys. I knew nothing about it before reading Ole Miss beat writer Parrish Alford’s story today.
According to Alford’s story for the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Brewer underwent the “reconstruction” of the side of his head while coaching at Marshall after detecting something resembling a small shaving cut that wouldn’t heal.
“They had to do a lot of work in 1996, but they got it all,” Brewer said told a href=”http://nems360.com/pages/insideolemisssports”>Alford . “It scares you every time you go in, waiting on that (pathology) report to come back. That `C’ word puts the fear of God in you.”
Reading Alford’s story should prompt anyone to reconsider what wear this weekend as we outside to work or play in the sun. This quote from Brewer is especially worth considering:
“Look at the hood of a car. After a couple of years you see the damage the sun can do to something like that.”
Kudos to Alford, who you can follow on Twitter @parrishalford, for writing this story.
OSU basketball’s Dec. 10 game with Pittsburgh means Cowboys could make two trips to Madison Square Garden
The Oklahoma State Cowboys basketball team will play Pittsburgh Dec. 10 at Madison Square Garden in a game to be televised by ESPN 2, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Monday on its web site.
That means the Cowboys could make two trips to trips to New York City before Christmas. OSU will host the Midwest Regional portion of NIT Season Tip-Off in a bracket. Regional winners advance to Madison Square Garden for the semifinals on Nov. 23. The championship and consolation games are set for Nov. 25.
The Cowboys, the No. 2 seed in the NIT Season Tip-Off, face Arkansas-Pine Bluff in one game of a doubleheader, with Oral Roberts and Texas-San Antonio meeting in the other matchup at Gallagher-Iba Arena. The “other” game in Stillwater features a clash of OSU alums as coaches, with Scott and Sean Sutton guiding Oral Roberts and Brooks Thompson in charge at UTSA. A Golden Eagles win would likely create a matchup of the Suttons vs. Travis Ford and the Cowboys – on Eddie Sutton Court.
The first and second rounds are scheduled for Nov. 14-16 at the sites of the top four seeds: No. 1 Syracuse, No. 2 OSU, No. 3 Stanford and No. 4 Virginia Tech.
Why Dana Holgorsen left out Mike Gundy
Maybe it was just an oversight, but see if you notice anyone missing from Dana Holgorsen’s comments yesterday.
Holgorsen was presenting at the Angelo Football Clinic in San Angelo, Texas. After 18 years as an assistant coach, he’s now West Virginia’s head coach. His promotion from head coach in waiting was hastened last week by Bill Stewart’s messy firing.
“I thought it might be another six months from now, but we sped the game up, and here we are,” Holgorsen told the San Angelo Standard-Times . “I’m pretty fired up about it. I’ve worked for some pretty good guys, Mike Leach (at Texas Tech) and Kevin Sumlin (at Houston). Those guys do a pretty good job. They won a lot of games, so I feel pretty good about it.”
He’s worked for some pretty good guys? Leach and Sumlin and …..
Whether it was Mike Gundy or Boone Pickens’ idea to bringing him to Oklahoma State, its clear that Holgorsen’s work in Stillwater (from No. 61 to No. 1 in the nation with 537.6 yards per game) catapulted him into position to become a head coach at a BCS school like West Virginia. Sure, WVU AD Oliver Luck’s Houston connection with Holgorsen didn’t hurt. But why would Holgorsen fail to include Oklahoma State’s head coach among the pretty good guys he’s worked for?
I’m not sure what Holgorsen was saying here, but it sure seems like he’s saying something.
Here’s Standard-Times reporter Paul Harris’ story: “Offensive master shares wisdom”
More video of new OSU point guard Cezar Guerrero
This one features a short interview with Guerrero.
And here’s a video of Guerrero as a ninth-grader.
– Mike Sherman
