Bevo's Daily Round Up 3.11.09

by dimecoverage on Mar 10, 2009 9:11 PM CDT in News

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Blake Griffin is on track to wrap up the greatest award in college basketball.

"It's not really a hard decision," said ESPN analyst Jay Bilas, a voter for the Naismith and John R. Wooden awards. "There is no great player that has been as productive as Blake. His productivity is off the charts."

CBSSports' Gary Parrish agrees.

Blake Griffin is the CBSSports.com National Player of the Year.

That's the easiest decision I've made all week.

A&M's leading scorer, Josh Carter, injured his ankle on Saturday and may not play in the Big 12 tournament opener.

No tizzy over tiebreakers in Big 12 basketball.

The implications of the system used for seeding the conference tournament aren't nearly as monumental as in football.

Three of the four teams that tied for fourth in the conference with 9-7 marks must play Wednesday in the first round. The other team in that mix, Kansas State, received a bye into Thursday's quarterfinals.

"Without playing a balanced schedule all the way (in basketball), it probably worked out OK," Texas coach Rick Barnes said Monday during the Big 12 teleconference. "I guess ours is better than what they have in football."

Football

Oklahoma State players really like new defensive coordinator Bill Young.

"He wasn’t really yelling, just laid-back and relaxed with it," senior-to-be Andre Sexton said.

Defensive end Derek Burton said, "He’s a little bit more laid-back than (former defensive coordinator Tim Beckman) was."

Defensive tackle Swanson Miller added: "Compared to coach Beckman, he’s laaaaaid-back. But I haven’t had him yell at me yet."

Isn't that nice... Mike Gundy wants some one-on-one time with his players.

Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy said he’s looking forward to spending more time with offensive and defensive players this spring as the rest of the offensive coaching staff will handle play-calling duties.

"I’ll move around a little more during scrimmages and stuff…It allows me to move around some during practice and watch some drills with the younger guys on defense and give me a feel for them."

Big 12 Sports has an interview with Robert Griffin.

Could there be a rematch for Florida and Oklahoma? The Wiz of Odds looks at the possibility.

What is it like to be a college athlete? News OK interviews Baylor guard Henry Dugat.

Bob Stoops is a nice guy. He really is.

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What they didn't show...

… was where Bob played NCAA 08 with another little kid and beat his ass 95-0 deep into the 3rd quarter (went for two 7 out of 8 times when he figured out the kid didn’t know how to audible out of a PAT block formation) before the kid threw down the controller and ran away crying. Final score: 156-0. Bob scored 7 more TDs by getting the kid’s team to line up to block a field goal and then throwing it deep to Manny Johnson, and after the first kickoff he figured out he could just get the kid’s KR to run out of the back of the endzone for a safety instead of having to return and punt on first down. This saved him probably 30 full game seconds. Bob left the kid one of those white leather autograph footballs with the message –

“156 – Nothing but heart! I hope your immune system plays better defense than you do, slugger! Winking smiley face”

Oh, um… kudos to Bob for doing a legitimately nice thing, by the way…

by Horn Brain on Mar 10, 2009 9:43 PM CDT reply actions 2 recs

funny

by MJY6087 on Mar 10, 2009 10:36 PM CDT up reply actions

This is great.

by dimecoverage on Mar 11, 2009 10:23 AM CDT up reply actions

Is Florida even going to make the tournament for an OU/Fla rematch to occur?

doesn’t look like it.

by goingforthecorner on Mar 10, 2009 9:59 PM CDT reply actions

The linked Wiz of Odds posting explores the possibility of a BCS rematch next year and reveals the odds that a particular gambling site has put on various teams for 2009. It is not actually about basketball.

These Daily Roundups are so good so consistently though that I think a mulligan every now and then has been earned.

by Year2 on Mar 10, 2009 10:18 PM CDT up reply actions

Oops..

I I actually read the article but obviouly did not type what I meant to write… I’ll fix that. I’ve been pulling too many loooong hours on work the past week.

I always welcome corrections. :-)

by dimecoverage on Mar 11, 2009 6:59 AM CDT up reply actions