Looking forward to continuous improvement.

Let’s go!

We can see the home cooking officiating today.

I'll post links in this thread to all of our stories on 2025 prospects, plus visit lists, Junior Day info and more. It will be a good place to get familiar with who TU is recruiting. Also, keep an eye on the 2025 TU Football Offers thread and our Front page...

On Eye of the Hurricane Podcast, the press conference today for TU FB, with Coach Wilson and players Kam Benjamin and Myles Jackson

https://tulsahurricane.com/sports/2019/8/26/eye-of-the-hurricane-podcast

Coach Wilson addressed the media today, along with players Kam Benjamin and Myles Jackson during a press conference about the upcoming ECU game, on Eye of the Hurricane Podcast

https://tulsahurricane.com/sports/2019/8/26/eye-of-the-hurricane-podcast

Just venting about stupid procedures:

1. THE holdup on voting is the number of booths…, add more booths!
2. Why are the voters divided by A-M & N-Z, when 70+% of names are A-M. Why not make the cutoff at a 50/50 level?!

At our precinct there is a 2 hour wait if you’re an A-M person & a 5-10 minute wait if you’re an N-Z person!

The month of October was a busy one for Tulsa football coaches, as they extended several new scholarship offers in the 2025, 2026 and 2027 recruiting classes. The 2025 recruiting cycle has an important signing period that is fast approaching, as TU looks to fill out its recruiting class.

For those who love alley-oop dunks and scoring 100 points in victories, this was your game, TU fans. Isaiah Barnes led the way with 22 points and a few dunks as Tulsa easily defeated Arkansas-Pine Bluff 103-80 on Saturday afternoon in front of a crowd of 2,753 at the Reynolds Center.

Over in Hurricane Alley, you'll find lists of every prospect offered by TU in each class, along with articles on top prospects, commits, official visits and much more. Below, we will post link to just a sample of our content. To access all of the content on Inside Tulsa Sports, you can subscribe here: Subscribe to ITS

I was shocked that there were no game thoughts yet. There are still a lot of things to work on but this game was much better than NSU. Odom is a gamer! Willis, Barnes and Archie all looked really good. The potential of Amadi, Smickle, Nash and even Behrend makes me optimistic for the future. Rebounding was much better the second half. Here’s to a similar performance against ORU.

So. Alabama offense rolling over Appy St.4 possessions 3 TDs and one fumble on QB strip. Major Applewhite has them rolling. 21-0 midway through Q2.

For those who love alley-oop dunks and scoring 100 points in victories, this was your game, TU fans. Isaiah Barnes led the way with 22 points and a few dunks as Tulsa easily defeated Arkansas-Pine Bluff 103-80 on Saturday afternoon in front of a crowd of 2,753 at the Reynolds Center.

With the basketball season recently starting for Tulsa, we decided to take a look at where ex-Hurricane players are suiting up this season. With so many transfers out of the program in the past four years, an entire roster could be formed with the 14 former players now at other schools.

After TU's win over Arkansas Pine Bluff, the Eye of the Hurricane Podcast has Post Game Radio Remix with highlights and interviews with Coach Konkol and player Isaiah Barnes

https://tulsahurricane.com/sports/2019/8/26/eye-of-the-hurricane-podcast

On Eye of the Hurricane Podcast, it's Post Game Radio Remix with highlights and interviews with Coach Konkol and Isaiah Barnes after TU took down UAPB

https://tulsahurricane.com/sports/2019/8/26/eye-of-the-hurricane-podcast

I miss these game threads from back in the late Rader and Burns days.

With the basketball season recently starting for Tulsa, we decided to take a look at where ex-Hurricane players are suiting up this season. With so many transfers out of the program in the past four years, an entire roster could be formed with the 14 former players now at other schools.

It is immeasurable how much impact having a healthy Keaston Willis can have on TU basketball this season. With a sharpshooting Willis draining 3-pointers, like he did in the regular season opener against NSU, Tulsa’s offense can be balanced and potent. Tulsa fans will get another chance to see Willis this Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. while TU hosts Arkansas-Pine Bluff at the Reynolds Center.

It is immeasurable how much impact having a healthy Keaston Willis can have on TU basketball this season. With a sharpshooting Willis draining 3-pointers, like he did in the regular season opener against NSU, Tulsa’s offense can be balanced and potent. Tulsa fans will get another chance to see Willis this Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. while TU hosts Arkansas-Pine Bluff at the Reynolds Center.

Carpenter, Francis, Legas?

Did anyone else see this story about an Economics professor averaging test grades out to demonstrate the power of socialism?

Socialism Experiment

If you aren't a Split Zone Duo subscriber, they have a free podcast, but they do several college football podcasts per week. They're very tied into the sport and seem to have a lot of good connections to fill in details. One of the special podcasts they did was partnering with Rodger Sherman to produce a story primarily focusing on how awful the Trent Dilfer hire was for UAB. They talk about a lot more than just record but focus on the process that resulted in Dilfer being hired.

After finishing the Dilfer story, they did a "draft" of the worst hires in CFB since ~2010, again focusing more on process and "fit" than pure W/L record. Kevin Wilson for Tulsa was drafted 3rd, though I think they might be lacking some context in how we ended up with him. The reason Wilson ends up 4th despite being the 3rd pick is that they all agreed that Dilfer was the worst hire, and he was excluded from the draft.

Another interesting pick they made was Steve Addazio to Colorado State. They discuss Urban Meyer's involvement in that coaching search, which included Kevin Wilson as one of the four main candidates. Colorado State nixed him after looking into the issues at Indiana. But one of the things that dissuaded coaches from applying for that job was a nepotism requirement -- it was understood that to get the job, you had to agree to hire Urban Meyer's son-in-law, Corey Dennis, as the QB coach. You might note that he is now our QB coach.

Go TU!

Vermont beats UAB

When saying “He’s back!”, that could mean either TU legend Ken Hayes, or TU sharpshooter Keaston Willis. Either way, both had their own significant impact on a fun 82-68 season opening win for Tulsa over Northeastern State on Monday night in front of 2,874 fans at the Reynolds Center. Willis led the way with 17 points, including 5 of 9 in shooting 3-pointers, on what was Ken Hayes Day.