Kennedale (TX) corner DeDaunte Scott picked up an offer from Tulsa on Oct 27 and then came for a visit last weekend. He committed this morning. I'm still updating his profile. Numerous P5 offers.

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dog to Tulane. is that for the first half, or first quarter.

6-foot-9 and 230-pound big man Ian Smikle, who committed to Tulsa a month ago, signed his letter of intent with TU on the first day of the early basketball signing period. He chose the Hurricane over offers from Seton Hall, Jacksonville, Sam Houston State and others.

Alex Grinch spent a short stint at ohio state with Wilson. Recruited the state of oklahoma for about three years while at OU and is now available.

Could he possibly help recruit through the transfer portal on day 1?

Thoughts?

With freshmen guards P.J. Haggerty and Tyshawn Archie, along with senior guard Cobe Williams leading the way for Tulsa, while sharing point guard duties, the season opener was a success. The guard trio, along with sophomore wing Isaiah Barnes, combined for 47 points while all scoring in double figures to lead TU to a 70-53 victory over Central Arkansas Monday night in front of 2,770 fans at the Reynolds Center.

Let’s go!!! Get W1 and we are 1/5th to last year's win total. I CAN NOT WAIT!!!

Pritchard(11) led Central Michigan in scoring against OU. OU beat them by 30.

Gaston Chapmon played for 2 minutes with UT Arlington while they beat ORU by 4.

BB Knight(19) led Lamar in scoring as they trounced Jarvis Christian. He played off the bench for 19 min.(Nobody cares bout Lamar)

Special K Started for Monmouth, but split minutes with several other players. (17 min.) He didn't score any points, but tied for the lead in rebounding(2/3: 5) in a losing effort for Monmouth against George Mason.

We beat out several P5 schools for Dedaunte Scott out of Texas.
(according to 247 & On 3)

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I keep an up to date list of players we’ve offered and their status. For those that don’t see this pinned thread in the Alley, I’ve copied the 2024 list.

2024 -

PG 6-2 Isaac Williams, Oak Cliff, TX
PG 6-3 Lorenzo Cason, Lakeland, FL, committed to Florida Atlantic
PG 6-1 Jeremiah Wilkinson, Smyrna, GA, committed to California
PG 6-6 Mozae Downing-Rivers, Barton CC
PG 6-4 Bo Aldridge, Topeka, KS
CG 6-3 KJ Windham, Indianapolis, committed to Northwestern
CG 6-3 David Castillo, Bartlesville, OK, committed to Kansas State
CG 6-3 T.O. Barrett, Edmond, OK, committed to Missouri
CG 6-4 Isaiah Brown, Orlando, FL, committed to Florida
CG 6-4 Brooks Bahr, Keller, TX, eliminated Tulsa
SF 6-7 Braden Hausen, Amarillo,TX, committed to High Point
SG 6-5 Kameren Wright, Gainesville, FL
SF 6-6 Chance Puryear, Dallas, TX, committed to SMU
SF 6-7 Dink Pate, Dallas, TX, Going G-League
PF 6-7 Josiah Moseley, Round Rock, TX, committed to Villanova
PF 6-9 Nicolas Codie, Carrollton, TX, eliminated Tulsa
PF 6-9 Jamie Vinson, Austin, TX, no longer recruiting
PF 6-8 Malcolm Thomas, Baltimore, eliminated Tulsa
C 6-9 Doryan Onwuchekwa, DeSoto, TX, committed to Colorado
C 6-9 Ian Smikle, Suncoast, FL, committed to Tulsa
C 6-11 Mitchell Holmes, Branson, Mo, committed to SMU
C 7-3 Trent Burns, Cypress, TX, committed to Missouri

Go Tulsa

Transfer Qb

And What High School Football Quaterback Are we looking at

Kevin Wilson press conference...

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Terrible. I’m very angry about switching the QB. Obvious PI on last play

I’m also very angry about direction of program. TU asks a lot out of us and can’t get timeouts correct on scoreboard. The Hurricane siren is literally broken. Do better.

Defense was awful, too.

ESPN+

On the latest Eye of the Hurricane Podcast, our Post Game Radio Remix, an edited version of the radio post game with highlights, and interviews with Coach Eric Konkol and Cobe Williams:

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

On the latest Eye of the Hurricane Podcast, Post Game Radio Remix as the edited version of the post game radio show has highlights, and interviews with Cobe Williams and Coach Eric Konkol

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

We can work with that. It was fun to hear the cheering at the end. Been awhile.

We have a long way to go, but this team has some dudes who can play. Cobe is the most fun player we’ve had in awhile. Haggerty just needs to play more. I really like Reed and Garcia. And Barnes is nice. And Archie was a steal.

Too many turnovers. Defensive rebounding had to improve. But this could be way worse and it has been.

I don’t like what they did to student section. And I like that the idiot bar stool guy thought that was a good turnout.

With freshmen guards P.J. Haggerty and Tyshawn Archie, along with senior guard Cobe Williams leading the way for Tulsa, while sharing point guard duties, the season opener was a success. The guard trio, along with sophomore wing Isaiah Barnes, combined for 47 points while all scoring in double figures to lead TU to a 70-53 victory over Central Arkansas Monday night in front of 2,770 fans at the Reynolds Center.

Ladies got off to fast start, then cooled in Q2, solid Q3 and build nice lead in Q4. Led by about 14 with 3 minutes left. 3 players scored all but 8 points. Crawford had 35, Poindexter 28 and Gallegos 18. Played a lot of players and have more bigs than in the past.

If you are not aware already, the AAC Media days for Basketball is Monday October 9 starting at 8:00 a.m. on ESPN+. Below is the Schedule (the times are in Eastern time). The attendees for the Men will be Coach Konkol, Cobe Williams and Keaston Willis. The Women will have Coach Nelp, Delanie Crawford and Temira Poindexter



I have also went through the schedules for the Exhibition games and this is what is set for all of the teams on our schedule. Some of the times are not set. I will be pushing out a list of Notable games that our opponents play after I have finished going through all of the schedules, so stay tuned for that.

From a competitive standpoint, we haven't been this deficient since 2002, Keith Burns' final season. We don't look like a contender in the group of leftovers.

College football has changed tremendously since then. Survival of the fittest prevails more than ever. I don't know how TU sizes up with NIL funds, but I have a feeling we would know more if we were amassing a big warchest.

I do well to buy season tickets and make a modest donation to the Champions Fund. I don't know much about how to rebuild the program and I'm only on campus to go to the games. I'm basically asking for ideas and opinions.

What does TU need to do to become competitive in football and men's basketball again? Can we do it? Do we have the will to do it? Do we have the means?

This tweet shows that he has re entered the portal. Did the exhibition game have something to do with it?

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Could Cobe Williams and Keaston Willis go down as one of the great guard combinations in TU history, along with the likes of Steve Harris and Ricky Ross? Although Tulsa will only get one year of Cobe and Keaston, it could be a really memorable one. Fans have already gotten a glimpse of the explosive Williams. They will have to wait a couple more weeks or so to see Willis. But it will be worth the wait.

Rant time while watching one of the most embarrassing losses in recent memory:

The football coaches Rick Dickson hired during his tenure as AD at Tulane (Bob Toledo, Mark Hutson and Curtis Johnson) and had a combined record of 30-102 (.227). Tulane was one of the absolute worst programs in the country during his tenure. After Dickson left Tulane in 2015/2016, his successor (Troy Dannen) immediately hired Willie Fritz and I think we all know how that has worked out for them.

Dickson’s first big decision during his second stint as AD here was to hire a 62 year old retread HC in Wilson who had middling success during his only other head coaching stint at Indiana and ultimately ended up with a 26-47 overall record there before being fired. Wilson had success as co-OC at Ohio State, but that was an offense loaded with 5-star talent. To make matters worse, Dickson passed on hiring GJ Kinne, who’s an alum who expressed interest in the job and who now has more wins at TXST than they had all of last season and has put together the best recruiting class in TXST history.

Dickson is nearly 70 and fortunately his contract is up in 2024 but I pray he retires and we do not try to extend him. Maybe Wilson will surprise me and turn things around next season but I have zero faith that’ll happen based on Dickson’s track record of head coaching hires. I agree that it was time to move on from Montgomery, but at least he made the most of his low-ranked recruiting classes (produced 2 first-round picks) and had us in bowl contention nearly every season he was here. There’s a very good chance Dickson just set us back years with this hire. Future looks extremely bleak right now.

Didn’t do an official prediction thread this week. Wasn’t feeling it.

Beautiful weather! Let’s get this season back on track!!!