BEASTS: Oklahoma State's RBU Status Stays Alive With Caleb Hawkins NOW These 2027 Recruits Are NEXT?

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Of course, we cruise through the first round of NCAA.

So now we talk RBU.

The conversation remains alive with Caleb Hawkins,

but it's all about the next man up.

So who could that be?

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we get to jump right into this recruiting conversation.

Yesterday, we covered wide receiver

and have a wide receiver.

You, connotation, does have a little bit of, of,

of Iability and still order, but the RBU conversation,

going back to the goat himself, Barry Sanders,

one of the best to ever do it, Thurmond Thomas,

Ollie Gordon's making a name for himself in the NFL.

We watched Jalen Warren, we watched Justice Hill,

we could go back to the Tatum Bells

and the Vern Merencees of the world,

an Oklahoma State carries a designation

of an RBU kind of school.

So, Caleb Hawkins, he keeps that proud tradition alive.

Katie Batman Jones is gonna be,

probably big time freshmen,

but you gotta have that thunder,

you gotta have that lightning, Katie Batman Jones

is likely to be the lightning package

for the foreseeable future.

We hope Caleb Hawkins sticks around for a long time

because he's only a sophomore,

but you gotta be filling the coffers,

you gotta have competition to build

the next Ollie Gordon in line.

If it is Caleb Hawkins, which it very much looks like it will be,

then you gotta have somebody after Caleb Hawkins.

So, let's jump right into this running back,

recruiting conversation,

and currently a four star running back

is being projected.

To be an Oklahoma State cowboy,

that is Javion Jones Priest, the 5.1195 pound running back.

Yeah, it has a lot of offers.

That may be the biggest problem.

We're gonna have to fend off Oregon and Texas Tech, TCU,

SMU, Iowa, Wisconsin, Baylor, Cal, K-State.

The list goes on and on and on.

But whenever you're thinking about

a Caleb Hawkins or Ollie Gordon kind of guy,

this dude fits the bill.

This previous season, he was able to rush for 1,150

of four yards, 12 rushing touchdowns,

14 total touchdowns on just 144 carries,

equalling a little over eight yards per carry.

He was also able to get mixed up in the wide receiver game

or at least out of the backfield,

showing that he has the versatility

that Caleb Hawkins is likely to replicate

from what we saw at Ollie Gordon.

In addition to that,

he's a beast that runs a 10, 4, 900 meter,

a 21.68, 200 meter and a 6.8, 60 meter dash.

He's a four star on all three.

He's also a four star at 247.

They currently have him as the number 24th

ranked running back in the country.

He's number 46 overall in the state of Texas.

And this big body beast isn't just about speed,

isn't just about hands.

He also deadlifts 500 pounds.

He also bench presses 265 pounds.

And remember, this is a running back

that we're talking about.

So if yesterday we covered land in Williams

and if I were to give a comp it'd be kind of like

a Marcel Ateman potential kind of guy.

Well, how about for Jbeon Jones Priest,

my comp is going to be Jeremy Smith.

Tulsa Oklahoma dude who came to Oklahoma state

also as a four star get.

And we had to battle to get Jeremy Smith here

and it ended up being a massive contributor

in the biggest season in Oklahoma state history,

which is the 2011 big 12 title,

or at least in our lifetime, right?

That's the biggest season in Oklahoma state history.

And Jeremy Smith was a major contributor

on a lot of those teams that might

gunny got known for soon the top off offenses in the country.

He had to share a back fail with Joe Randall

and that one two combination was absolutely a nightmare.

So if we were going to have a one two combination,

let's say Katie Batman Jones is a lightning guy

and Caleb Hawkins graduates in a couple of years.

If Jbeon Jones Priest isn't going to be the number one

and be dude that we bring in,

then how about we bring out another Gordon?

Let's talk about Daylon Gordon at a Wiley, Texas.

A little bit different than Mr. Jones Priest.

But at the end of the day,

the Arlington Martin High School product

is also a Texas dude.

Just like all the Gordon was a Texas dude

and Daylon Gordon to my knowledge

is not any relation to Oli,

but at 5'11, 185 pounds.

There's a lot of commonality here.

This is another one of those that it's not going to be easy.

We're going to have to out recruit Old Miss,

Texas Tech, Baylor, SMU.

North Texas popping up here is potentially a good thing.

We're Oklahoma State, K-State, Cal, Houston.

Yeah, it's not going to be easy to get either one of these dudes

but they do run very comparable to each other.

And when you look at Daylon Gordon,

I, for the life of me, cannot understand

how he's not more heavily recruited.

I think potentially it's just,

he doesn't have a lot of years under his belt,

but the years that he does have

are pretty dag on impressive.

This previous season, he rushed for almost 900 yards,

11 rushing touchdowns, over six yards per carry.

The previous season, oh, while chipping in 15 touchdowns,

the year prior, he rushed for 966 yards,

had another 15 touchdowns.

And he was another dude that caught some balls

out of the backfield

and made some things happen.

So if Jeremy Smith is going to be the comp

for Mr. Priest, then maybe Chris Carson-esque

could be another comp here.

At the end of the day, Oklahoma State needs to continuously

get these top in running backs.

That is the cachet that Oklahoma State has afforded itself

over the years.

Whenever you're talking about RBU,

Oklahoma State is in these conversations.

And I think both of these young men have the capability

to come in and replicate what you're going to see

out of a Caleb Hawkins, which should be very reminiscent

of what we saw out of Alley Gordon.

Have a lot of commonality running wise.

But specifically, whenever you're looking at Jbeon,

he has the ability to hit the hole.

What I love about watching Jbeon Jones Priest

is he doesn't try to overcomplicate things.

He's not constantly trying to bounce it to the outside,

which is a lot of times what you see.

If somebody is physically better than most everybody else,

they take the past of least resistance.

Jbeon Jones Priest certainly does not do that.

He looks for the hole.

He looks to make the littlest critique

of his own physicality as possible.

AKA, he's not taking huge jump cuts in the hole

like a Justice Hill would.

It's more precise.

He makes little bitty adjustments,

but they clearly help him get rocking and rolling downhill

even quicker.

And then I think, Dale on Gordon, he looks for contact.

Point blank period, he's an aggressive dude

that whether it's in the blocking game

or if he's gonna hit the one hole to hole,

he's looking for the contact.

He's trying to get to the second level

to run your dag on face into the turf.

And again, I think whenever you're looking at Oklahoma State

and this spread out attack,

you're gonna need some short yardage guys.

Hillb Hawkins, thankfully,

can do a little bit of everything

as can Katie Batman Jones,

but I think these two dudes, both of these guys,

if you were to get either one of them,

same concept with the quarterbacks.

If you get Carson White or Luke Babin,

it accomplishes almost the same thing.

I think Dale on Gordon and Jbeon Jones Priest

could equal potentially the same thing

because they have a lot of commonality,

a lot of similarities.

They run the ball behind their pads,

utilize leverage very well.

Jbeon gets super, super low to the ground

and his balance is already next level.

The beauty of this is we're not peeing in the wind here.

Top rated running backs will always find a home

at Oklahoma State.

I don't foresee that changing anytime soon.

And thankfully, Jbeon Jones Priest,

currently, according to on three,

has a 64% chance of committing to Oklahoma State

to become a cowboy.

And then Dale on, I think, is extremely underrated.

So that is the name that we all need to be watching for

this upcoming high school season,

because I do think that his name is going to kind of explode

on the scene, even more than it already has.

You saw the offers,

so it's not like people don't understand his talent,

but it hasn't exactly exploded on the scene yet.

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It could be great that Oklahoma State's in on him early.

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Let's have some fun and discuss the brackets.

Speaking of having some fun, discuss some brackets, the NCAA wrestling bracket is

moving along and moving along quite nicely for the cowboys.

We're currently sitting in second place overall behind Penn State, um,

they're projected to have 168.4 points.

The cowboys are projected to have 98.3 points, uh, which is a little above expectations.

Right now a high state sits in third Nebraska sits in fourth, I was in fifth, I was states

in six cornelles and seven Virginia texts eight into state nine and Arizona state, big

12 school, rounding out the top 10.

It started off probably as well as we could have anticipated or at least as well as we

would have hoped, uh, a lot of cowboys found themselves in the winter circle.

And yeah, of course that is the expectation, uh, but at the same point in time, we didn't

see a large degree of separation in my personal opinion when it comes to, you know, things

like bonus points, um, I didn't see us be super aggressive as the way to in on, but everybody

won, which is a pretty, pretty big deal, especially when you consider Zach Ryder.

Zach Ryder was probably the only cowboy coming into the day that we didn't know what version

of Zach Ryder was going to show up.

We know he's super banged up.

Um, he just keeps putting off this, this shoulder surgery, which is likely to be a pretty

big shoulder surgery.

So he's essentially walking in his tournament with JB Weldon duct tape, but he's still

fine in ways to get it done.

It went all the way into the overtime, uh, but he got, he got the win when he needed to

in crunch time.

And that was huge because that was Oklahoma state's biggest opportunity in the morning to

get a win over a superior seated team.

Of course, we kick over, kick open everything again tonight.

And yeah, I don't know if we're going to see enough of a separation.

We did Oklahoma state and Penn State early, but from what we have seen, it does appear

as though Penn State's going to run away with this thing again, but the cowboys can still

make this difficult.

They can make this problematic, right?

They can get some dudes in a position where they're scoring at more points.

And Troy Spratley kicked it off the right way.

He got a win over last year's defending national champion, Vincent Robinson, who beat him

in the Nathies is who he will get next.

He won by major decision over Andrew Beanie from maybe 11 to 2.

And now round two is a repeat of last year's national title between Troy Spratley and

Vincent Robinson.

He was forced, did what Jacks does.

It was so fun to see against the sooner and a minute and 59 seconds.

He pinned him.

It was quick work.

It was exactly what you hoped to see out of Jack's force at 133, Sergio Vega.

He won by decision, right?

It wasn't.

It wasn't epic.

He didn't do anything crazy.

He won six to zero.

Casey Sudersky.

He found himself on the right side of the podium with a seven and two victory.

He was able to get a fairly close win over Gavin Drexler from Indy, North Dakota State.

And then it kind of, you know, it got a little crazy, DeLocket.

Got a W who was super aggressive at first, but then it seemed to kind of bite him a little

bit there as the match progressed, but he got the dub.

It's exactly what he needed to do when it mattered.

And then you move on after D, you had a little Alex Kundo action, Alex Kundo, he got

himself a W.

Of course, we already talked a little bit about Zack Ryder.

He needed all of it.

He needed over time, but he found a way to get it done to keep us within striking distance.

Obviously, the Kung Fu Panda himself, Cody Merrill, got a fairly impressive W, Conor

DuSet goes out and he gets another dub.

It's going to be more interesting, I think, to talk about, you know, this second round

of matchups, because it's not going to be hard per se.

But Oklahoma State didn't exactly do a ton in that first round to invoke a lot of confidence

that we're going to be able to do a ton of stuff from the scoring wise in this upcoming

round.

We did what we were supposed to do, we did what we needed to do, and now we get to look

forward more of it tonight.

As again, for a spattly, gets Vincent Robinson, next, Jacks Forest gets TK Davis from Garden

of Webb, Sergio Vega gets Elijah Griffin from Ryder, H.C.

Smirersky has a big one against David Evans from Utah Valley coming up.

And then you'll ain't a robodoo.

He's got to go against Charlie Mallard out of Minnesota, and he had a big upset over the

way.

I was state, dude.

I didn't see that coming.

I don't think I don't think very many people did.

But nonetheless, that is what it is.

We are where we are, and we now we get to move on.

Thankfully, we're still within striking distance.

We can still probably put ourselves in a really good spot, you know, as this whole thing

progresses.

I'm trying to find the opponents for the other dudes, Anybehoo, Oklahoma State currently

sitting in second place, which is I think where everybody thought we probably should be.

The biggest storyline that would come out of this is if for whatever reason, Oklahoma

State did not win second place.

And right now, so if you look at the projected points against the points projected coming

in, Penn State is outpacing the projected points, Oklahoma State, we are also outpacing

the projected points.

Ohio State is barely outpacing the projection.

Nebraska is not.

Nebraska is in fourth place, but they're currently at 82.2 points projected when their,

you know, entry projection coming into the tournament was 83.8 Iowa.

They're currently outperforming the projection at 71.2 compared to 65.

Iowa State also outperforming the projection at 69.3.

They were projected at only 66.7 coming in.

Cornell is outperforming their, wait, their score coming in.

Let's see Virginia Tech is not Virginia Tech is underperforming.

NC State is literally dead on right around where they were supposed to be.

They're currently projected at 47.7.

They have, they had 47.1 as the projection coming in and Arizona State.

They're currently projecting above where they were supposed to be.

They were supposed to be at 40.5.

They're currently at 44.8 as the projections go.

So the end of the day, it's hard to have any complaints.

Every dude won.

Is it all pretty? No.

Did we have very many guys scoring bonus points?

No, not really, but don't be deterred by Penn State doing just that because a lot of

their dudes were number one.

So a lot of their guys got to kick this thing off against number 33 seeds.

Therefore, there is an expectation that Penn State is going to bonus point all of those dudes.

I think most of the guys that we anticipated bonus points out of for the most part,

we got them today and the guys that just have been hanging on for tight, tough,

gritty wins this season, they did a little bit more of that.

And in the NCAAs, in the day, all you can do is win, right?

Because that's the way the points are going to matriculate up for you,

the more matches you win, obviously, you get more points.

So in a boo, the Cowboys are in a pretty good spot as it sits.

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Yeah, we already talked about finding a way to get a couple of dubs,

and maybe it didn't look the prettiest, and maybe the pitching staff is still a little

in limbo right now, which is to somewhat be expected, right?

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which was likely to be your Friday Saturday guy or your Friday Sunday guy,

to be sandwiched in there somewhere along with Ethan Lund.

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It has to come together, and now we kick off Big 12 play against the Baylor Bears.

And we're going to go a little bit more in depth with that.

The Cowboys obviously need this one.

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However, a cool thing, Cowboy Baseball announced this morning

that they're bringing out the folds of honor,

Cowboy Battalion uniforms, and once again,

we rocked them in football, and they're still to this day,

one of the coolest Oklahoma State football uniforms I've ever seen us put together.

If you're looking out on the screen, you guys remember these.

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And I also wish that it was in the rotation, right?

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Uh, those.

I like the thermontomous throwbacks.

I like that.

I like the different iterations of the helmet.

The Bucking Bronco is always probably going to be number one for me.

But when it comes to, you know, Jersey pants combinations,

I want the folds of honor one back.

I get that it was a one off kind of deal.

And then we sold some of the the Jersey's to charity or something to that effect.

I understand that.

And I would assume it's going to be the same thing here.

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closet, it would be that one or at least, at least it is for me.

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So we're going to have this one right here.

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