GOLDEN COWBOY: Oklahoma State's Nolan McLean Takes On Venezuela As USA Looks To Win The WBC Gold!

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During a pound, 11 ounce baby Jesus just swinging away in your manger on this day, March 17th.

Can we not think about Oklahoma State baseball struggling against UCF?

Can we instead think about a cowboy baseball player, Nolan McLean, taking the bump with

America across his chest to win a WBC gold medal instead?

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yes, the cowboys did trouble to open big 12 play against UCF, but there is a former cowboy

in Nolan McLean that gets an opportunity redemption because he did face team Italy a few

days back and it didn't go super swimmingly for him.

He was dominating until he wasn't.

I'm sure a lot of us were hoping that he would get that redemption opportunity against

Italy.

However, if you're going to be the best, you want to beat the best and as it sits right

now, Venezuela has gone through this tournament.

We're not talking about Japan or the Dominican Republic or Puerto Rico.

We're talking about Venezuela versus the United States of America and our dude, Nolan McLean

gets an opportunity to kind of write the wrongs.

The dude who has rock and roll for the match this year with a five and one record, 2.06

ERA, 48 innings pitch with 57 Ks to only 16 walks.

That is a reoccurring theme with Nolan McLean in the major leagues.

Whenever he was a AA, he had a 1.37 ERA, 30 strikeouts and only 26 innings, AAA, 2.7, 87

innings pitch and 97 Ks and then high AA, he also had 109 Ks out of just 116 opportunities.

This dude is an absolute machine.

He has what, 26 inches break.

He has the filthiest sweeper in the game.

It's all about control.

It's all about controlling the chaos for Nolan McLean and Team USA, who realistically kind

of had to battle themselves back into this position because it felt like they maybe

party a little bit too well after a couple big games, a couple big wins and that game

against Italy.

Not only did Nolan McLean get hit off a little bit there as the game progressed, but

defensively they were making uncharacteristic mistakes.

They were making a decent amount of errors.

One of the big things for Nolan McLean in here is he might actually have to go longer

than anticipate it.

He's certainly going to have to go longer than he did in his first outing for Team USA against

Team Italy because there's a chance that USA might be without a couple of its biggest

stars whenever they take this game, Mason Miller may not be able to rock and roll.

If that's the case, that's going to be slightly problematic because they clearly have the

guys necessary to come in and close the game out in a massive way, but it's all about

how many innings have you pitched and how is it going to be affected whenever it's your

time to go back to your team.

I completely understand why there is some potential reservations to, you know, having Mr.

Miller take the bump for Team USA, but at the same point in time, we kind of need this

one.

And we're not going to be able to have Bednar either most likely.

Now, these guys haven't been completely ruled out, but it does seem to be a fairly common

consensus that Mason Miller may not be available and David Bednar also may not be available.

So you're two biggest closers because of other obligations and how many games that they're

having to play back to back and they're keeping their innings down quite a bit.

You're only talking about a couple innings here and there, but it's about having a good

relationship ahead of time with the organizations knowing good and down going well that this

could be a problem.

And now we might have to interprolign to have Nolan McLean go a little bit longer than

anticipated.

You do have Tyler Rodgers that could come in.

You have Jeff Hoffman who just recently replaced Clayton Kershaw.

And then you also have Will Vest that was recently brought in, but make no mistake about

it.

Miller and Bednar are the reasons that we've been able to close the doors often as we

have to get to where we are now.

As Paul Schien said, whenever you look at how Mason Miller plays the game and throws

the ball, it's kind of a wonder how anybody has success off of this dude.

So there's no doubt that if you are missing both Miller and Bednar, the chances for

Venezuela here definitely tick up quite a bit, which is why there's going to be more

on Nolan McLean shoulders.

There's going to be more on the middle reliever shoulders.

But if you can get five quality innings or even four quality innings, I don't know

McLean.

I don't know what his count is going to be in relation to what the Mets would prefer

to see out of him.

But at the end of the day, you got to get this up.

I don't know.

You don't want to put players in a bad position and hurt their arm or anything to that effect.

But I think a lot of these players have already spoken out about this is kind of the biggest

moments.

This is a world series kind of feel.

I don't know if you guys have been watching, but the Italy, Venezuela game, that roof was

going to be exploded if there was one on it, the United States game.

That was absolute madness against the Dominican Republic.

Shout out to the WBC for having a lot of these games played in Miami where there is a big

Latino population.

There's going to be a lot of Venezuela fans, a lot of Puerto Rican fans, a lot of Dominican

Republic fans.

I don't know if that was by design because you couldn't have foretold that the United States

and Venezuela were going to be the two teams that matched up.

I think coming into it, a lot of people assumed that teams like Puerto Rico and the Dominican

Republic in Japan were going to be the ones that were rising.

To the top, definitely not Italy, definitely not Venezuela and even to some degree the United

States of America.

We were not necessarily an afterthought, but traditionally like Japan has kind of been

the team to beat in this ordeal in Venezuela and Italy have found multiple times this season

where they've been extremely battle tested in this WBC.

It is pretty incredible to see team Italy get as far as they did.

I was going to open the show, making a joke about how I didn't know that Italy knew how

to play a lot of baseball, but they have a lot of good players.

I personally would have loved to see Nolan McLean get that redemption arc against the team

that did beat him and that did send a couple balls out of the yard against him.

But to be the best, you want to beat the best right now, Venezuela seems to be playing

the best in this tournament outside of Italy.

Bring it on.

It's going to be an extremely exciting time seeing a coon, your junior go up against Nolan

McLean.

And before we do that, can we talk about the Baltimore Orioles real quick and how they

drafted Nolan McLean?

We could have been having conversations about Nolan McLean, a cowboy and the holiday connection

with the Orioles, but instead we have to talk about him being with the New York Mets.

I don't give a hoot where Nolan McLean plays baseball.

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because of the rich tradition in history.

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Now we get to slide in this segment to here and as you guys already have put together, the

pro day has been going on and there was some some cabboys that had a lot of nice performances

in this.

Brennan Rawls 41 inch vertical for the size that he is as a linebacker, pretty darn impressive.

Peter Harris seemed to steal the day for the most part, 4.8, 4.4840, 39 and a half

inch vertical had a 10 nine broad jump and put up 22 reps on the bench.

Parker Robertson was the guy who kind of came on the last few years going from the walk

on due to the glue guy to a special teams guy to not only a contributor, but a main

stay on the defensive side of the ball.

One of the biggest reasons we had success, the latter half of the season defensively

and ran a 4 4 7, which puts him one 10th of a second behind Brennan Presley's 4.46

at the pro day, obviously what he did to combine could have been significantly different.

It's all about opportunities though, and Parker Roberts and Robinson seemed to make the

most of his his opportunities, Charles Davis coming over from the UCO, he showed to have

some versatility with a 39 inch vertical and a 10 for a broad jump.

How about the quarterback slash returner, slash wide receiver, slash everything you need

him to be Sam Jackson, the fifth, he had a 36 and a half vertical, a 10 seven broad jump

to go alongside a 4.5, 40 yard dash.

How about the big body beast, Trent Howland, who yeah, they put on a little bit of weight

checking in at 262 pounds, which is like 15, 16 pounds off of his playing weight from

this previous season, he was still with all that mass, all of that, that six foot three,

262 pounds of him was able to have a 32 and a half inch vertical and nine three broad

jump and a 4 7, that still constitutes as a hefty tail back and goal line situations.

That might even be something that could be viewed as a fullback kind of role.

Trent Howland could be that dude that makes some things happen, he could be a short yardage

specialist. It's not like Chris Carson was out here blazing the 40 either per se, then you had

Sid Vinnie, Huffili, Kavusi with 24 reps on the bench, and then Brian McCoy, Jr. put together

22 reps. Now, I think it's fair that whenever you compare that to some of the other guys from

this previous season, do we have a bunch of NFL draft picks like Nick Martin, Colin Oliver,

Ollie Gordon, Corey Black, no, probably not. But when you see what Kenneth Harris did,

and you see the production of Brandon Rawls throughout his career in conjunction with what he

was able to do with this pro day, I think it begs the point how many of these guys are going to

get an opportunity. Brandon Rawls, six foot three, 230 pounds, 41 inch vertical, he should have

some opportunities here. At the end of the day, it's all about making the most of whatever

chances are given to you. And I feel like when it comes to the combine and a one win season,

most people were going to view Oklahoma State as pretty much the void of talent. When you look

at Brandon Rawls, you look at Brian McCoy, the complete embodiment of what they've gone through,

and the work that they've put in, not in Oklahoma State, but other places, it's exciting just to see

that some of these guys clearly put themselves in a position to be a late addition,

whether it might be an unsigned free agent. But what Kenneth Harris was able to do and Brandon

Rawls, I think they've definitely put themselves in a position to at least be in the conversation.

Oklahoma State is in a unique position, where we've had all of these NFL guys for so long,

and this is just one of those rare instances where it doesn't seem like we have an overabundance

of talent that could potentially even be picked up in the draft. However, it's pretty cool to

think that things are going to change pretty dramatically in this upcoming season.

Drew Mestermaker is young, Caleb Hawkins is young, Wyatt Young is fairly young. So a lot of these

guys that we brought in that could be first round, second, third round style of guys,

they could be back at Oklahoma State next season. A good chunk of them could be back the season

even after that. Now, in a perfect world, you'd have Drew Mestermaker, when the Heisman

in the next two years, and he's gone, you would have Caleb Hawkins be up for the Heisman,

when a Doke Walker award and move on in the next couple of seasons. And then an ideal scenario,

all of those things are still plausible, but we all know tons of things happen. It could be a

derailment because of physical injuries or never something that you want to see, but unfortunately,

they do happen every single year. So it could be fun in this upcoming season to talk about how many

guys Oklahoma State does have that are draft eligible. Joel Johnson is in that category.

Jashon Brown is in that category, camaps is in that category. And in the end of the day,

you're going to see some other dudes making moves, some of these transfer portal additions,

they have to be, they have to be big time, they have to have big time moments for the Cavaliers.

But it is a little bit different, whenever you don't have the connections with the guys that

have been here for three, four, five years. So wherever Jashon Brown or Joel Johnson or camaps,

wherever these guys end up going, because of the fact that they've been able to stay loyal and true

through multiple iterations of coordinators and coaches and systems and NIL and everything's

changed all around them to see those guys get the opportunity to the next level.

That's probably going to be worth its weight and gold this time next season.

So let me know down in the comments section what you thought about the Oklahoma State

pro day stuff. Did you think Kenneth Harris did enough to get himself a late addition when it

comes to the draft? Statistically, he seemed to have done quite a bit. And this previous season,

you saw him get better and better as a season progressed. Could that be because of the individual

coaching? Sure. Could it be because he did a lot of individual training with Dean Marlow,

who's fresh off of a long NFL career? Also very, very possible. Regardless of the reasoning,

like Kenneth Harris did potentially put himself in a position to be part of this draft conversation.

So it has Brian McCooley. Remember you've got a guy with almost 300 tackles in the last three

seasons. You've got to give that dude an opportunity at the next level. Brennan Rawls, he checks

outside speed, strength, skill, that all makes sense for Brennan Rawls. Is it Vinnie,

Hifili, Kavosi? Could he perhaps get a late addition? I think it's a possibility.

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It'll be fun to see what's one of these guys comes up out of nowhere and makes a name for

himself. It does feel slightly inevitable that one of these dudes is going to make his presence

felt and make a roster when we get to talk about that.

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Last but not least, the cowgirls have an opportunity to take on Princeton of all teams

in the NCAA tournament. And why this is important is because Oklahoma State

is the Princeton of the prairie. Oklahoma State got our colors from Princeton. We were originally

the tigers because of Princeton. We had a lot of faculty in the very beginning that were from

Princeton, including some of the most prominent members in Oklahoma State's founding history,

part of Princeton. So there is a ton of parallels between Oklahoma State and Princeton.

So it is kind of cool that we get an opportunity here to match up against them because we don't get

the opportunities to place Princeton and much of anything ever. So I think it's pretty cool

that the cowgirls will get this opportunity to take on Princeton. And here's a little breakdown.

They are led by their all conference first team beast Madison St. Rose. She's at five,

10 guard averaging over 16 points a game, five and a half rebounds a game and two point two

assist a game. They also have Skybelker, a five nine guard averaging a little over 13 points a

game, two and a half rebounds a game, two point seven assist a game. Then they have a Fatima tall,

the six foot one guards last forward can score as well as she's averaging 13 points a game. Of course

you can get rebounds at seven and a half a game and two assist a game. Pretty impressive for a big

they have another big six footer Olivia Hutcherson averaging 11 points a game, five point seven rebounds

a game, one point four assist a game. And then they've also got Ashley Jay, she's a five eight guard

averaging just under 10 a game, three rebounds a game and almost four assist a game.

This will be a pretty good matchup for the cowgirls. Of course any team in the tournament is

typically going to be a good barometer for how good your team is or what your level of success

should be. The level of success for the cowgirls should 100% be to do what we didn't do last year,

which is to move on to be a part of the advancing conversation. Princeton is going to be a decent test.

You would think that Oklahoma State would physicality wise be you know far and away above Princeton.

And yes we've got two six foot five individuals but they don't play. Our six foot five ladies

haven't sniffed the court in any capacity whatsoever the season. There could be a multitude of

reasons why. But thankfully we did we could see in next season. This is going to be up to

a chola caught and praise egg bereva. A chola caught would be in six point one is going to be

slightly problematic. Praise egg bereva being six foot three theoretically should be somewhat

problematic. I think if we had to bang bodies down low you could throw faith hacker in there.

She could get some rebound. She could slow the game around. Slow the game down. But Lena Gerardi

five eleven. She's going to have to mix it up down low. A Hayley Timmer. She's pretty tall for a

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I always go back to that West Virginia game. I know the lady mountaineers are really,

really, really good. But we had no answer for that. We also didn't have Wooten. I get that right.

If you implement the fastest guard that we have and one of the fastest most elusive guards in

the big 12. If you implement her into that ballgame perhaps things look entirely different. But

we had a rough time handling that pressure. And a lot of times whenever teams start doing the

full court pressure in the last minute and a half that typically eats our lunch as well.

So this will be a good moment for J. C. Wood. To show that she's continuously adjusting. She's

continually adapting. She knows what is going to get the cowgirls over top. She knows that there is

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you're watching the women's tournament, it is usually the top two teams that always make it through.

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times in women's basketball where you have those Valparaiso, Butler, Gonzaga, Florida golf coast

kind of stories. Doesn't happen occasionally. Yeah. But more or less whenever you see the elite eight

in women's, it's typically the top seeds. So Oakland State is theoretically kind of in that

conversation as good enough to make something happen. But you're going up against the team right

away that is going to be out to prove that they belong. And JC Hoyton needs to prove that she can

win games in the tournament being good. It's awesome. Getting good recruits. It's awesome.

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