Travis Ford to be Named Next OSU Head Coach

Doug Gottlieb, former OSU basketball player and current ESPN analyst, is reporting that Travis Ford, from the University of Massachusetts, is expected to be named the next Head Coach of the Oklahoma State University basketball team. See ESPN's article for more details.

Lake Stanley Draper

Out for an evening cruise on Steve's boat.

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80's Party Continued

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80's Fabulous.

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80's party

Daz brought it! I should have plenty of good pics for the blog from this shindig.

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Spring game

I made the annual spring trip to Stillwater today for the orange white game. Here's the view from our seats.

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4-9-08 Crap Chase

George Thompson and I headed out of Tulsa around 6:00 with hopes of reaching Muskogee before the ongoing storms. Well, with traffic that didn't quite work out and we were not able to get south of the storms that would later produce tornadoes. The only interesting piece of video I got was at a Love's south of Gore, OK.

Old School Video

I found this video from 2001. An old roommate and I went to Myrtle Beach on spring break and on the way through we stopped at Darlington Raceway for the NASCAR race. Somehow or another I ended up standing on the outside wall with a video camera. Good thing they didn't wreck in front of me. Not too many things were teathered to the cars back then.

Cowboy Up

It was very interesting to me that I got so many extra hits on my blog Tuesday after Sean Sutton was relieved of his position as head coach. I never realized how many OSU people were out there watching to see what's going on back in Stillwater. I usually only get about 5-10 readers a day on my blog but Tuesday sky-rocketed. In the shit storm that was upon us it made me feel good that so many people were still curious as to what was happening with our program. Below is a graphic of the past 30 days traffic to my blog. It's good to see that people out there still care regardless of their opinion of what happened to Sean.

Sean Sutton Fired From OSU

Update: Sean Sutton's press conference is scheduled at 4:45. KOCO.com claims it will host a live stream of the conference.

According to kotv.com and cbssportsline.com, Sean Sutton has been relieved of his duties as head coach of the Oklahoma State men's basketball team. After only two years, athletic director Mike Holder reportedly fired Sean Tuesday morning and the team is expected to be told Tuesday afternoon.

Speculation is that Bill Self will be the main candidate for the job if OSU can find enough money to lure him away from Kansas.(more on that to follow) Self and his wife are both OSU alums. Bill played basketball and his wife was a cheerleader. Another prime target is Kentucky's Billy Gillispie. But that is much less likely to happen.

So where is OSU going to get millions to pay Bill Self? Where else but Boone Pickens. Boone, who does not have a good relationship with the Sutton family, swooped in with millions and told Holder to fire Sean and he would front the contract money for a big name coach. While I appreciate what Boone has done for my alma mater, I think this is crossing the line. Mike Holder has allowed Boone to do exactly what has made him fortunes in the past and that is takeover our program. Boone has never been a hands off donor to our school and now it's taken an even bigger step toward just being another one of his companies. He already dictates what happens in football and had the stadium named after him. Now he is running our basketball program.

While I like the idea of having Bill Self as our coach, I'm a little disappointed that Sean did not get another year to prove himself. I think Mike Holder and Boone both disliked the Sutton family from the beginning and this was a way for them to oust their name from OSU basketball. Next thing you know Boone will replace Eddie's name on the court with his own. That'll surely piss off the entire cowboy nation.