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Report card: Kansas State blows out OSU

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Davis Cordova Staff Reporter

In OSU’s blowout 48-0 loss to Kansas State, the offense was immobile, Manhattan blew out expectations and Will Howard put on a clinic.

Here is the report card from Saturday’s game.

OSU offense: F Putting zero points on the board for the first time since 2009 will get you a failing grade. The offense couldn’t muster a drive and had just 15 plays in Kansas State territory. The run game was nonexistent for the Cowboys on Saturday with an aver age of 1.8 yards per rush which caused a onedimensional offense that led to little success. The leading rusher for OSU? Backup quarterback Gunnar Gundy.

The offense had two interceptions, one from quarterback Spen cer Sanders and one from Gundy, and had wide receiver Bren nan Presley cough up a fumble after a significant gain early in the game.

Don’t expect the offense to play this bad next week, but it’s obvi ous it has major issues.

Will Howard: A OSU coach Mike Gundy said last Monday that they were preparing for Kansas State quarter back Adrian Martinez to start. But, backup KSU quarterback Will How ard started and played

The past two sea sons, Howard has been called upon to play the majority of the game versus OSU, now for his third time, he finally won; Big time. He was relaxed from the start, passing for 296 yards and four touchdowns, with all scores coming in the first half.

Pass Rush: D

Going into the season, OSU’s defensive front was thought of to be amongst the best in the country. On Satur day, it was never a factor.

No sacks, four quarterback hurries and little pressure on How ard. After the first half, coach Gundy simply said “They’re blocking our ass.”

Manhattan: AYou couldn’t tell it was homecoming at Kansas State on Sat urday, but it was still an amazing experi ence nonetheless. To start the game, there wasn’t an empty seat, and considering Kansas State scored a lot, the tradition-rich Wabash Cannonball after every score was electric. All in all, Bill Snyder Family Stadium and the “Little Apple” beat many expec tations and felt like an adjacent to Stillwater.

Tom Hutton: B+

There was one thing that OSU can point to that was positive, punter Tom Hutton. Hut ton was called upon a lot considering the offense was stuck in quicksand for a majority of the game. Hutton punted six times with an average of 46.5 yards per punt with two being downed within the 20.

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Notebook: Gundy talks Kansas State loss, Big 12 media deal

Kansas State this past Saturday.

Daniel Allen Staff Reporter

Here’s what Gundy said. Gundy confident KSU loss won’t mentally deter season Gundy has been coaching for a long time now. Seventeen seasons. However, he hadn’t suf fered a loss to the severity that he had during his time in Stillwater as he did to the Wildcats last Sat urday. The 48-point loss was his largest margin of defeat.

Such a loss could alter a team’s season. Especially one coming on such a high stage in as crucial of a point in the season as the Cowboys find themselves in.

Yet, Gundy remained confi dent and adamant that even with the gut-wrenching defeat his team suffered in Manhattan, the goals remain the same.

“You know guys, I’ve been doing this for close to 18 years now,” Gundy said. “We’ve won as many games as anybody in college football the last 10 or 12 years at a very very high level. We just didn’t play good, we didn’t coach good and they played very well.”

Jackson to be inducted into National Wrestling Hall of Fame

recording a perfect 29-0 record as a senior. He became the first African American wrestler to win at least three NCAA indi vidual championships.

On Tuesday, it was announced OSU wrestler Jimmy Jackson will be inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame as part of the 2023 class.

During his time at OSU, Jackson was a three-time NCAA na tional champion and Big 8 conference champion in the heavyweight class. He posted a career record of 88-9-2 with 44 falls —

Jackson competed in the 1976 Olympics as a sophomore at OSU, defeating Canada’s Harry Geris, before losing to eventual silver medalist Soslan Andiyev of the So viet Union. He was induct ed into the OSU Athletics Hall of Honor in 2007.

The ceremony will take place from June 2-3, 2023 at the 46th Honors Weekend at the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.

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The O’Colly gave OSU’s offense an F after its loss at Kansas State.

On Monday, Oklahoma State football head coach Mike Gundy held his weekly press conference.

OSU (6-2, 3-2) is coming off of a historically bad 48-0 loss at

Mackenzie Janish

OSU coach Mike Gundy spoke to the media ahead of the Cowboys game at Kansas.

Daniel Allen Staff Reporter

Courtesy of OSU Athletics

Jimmy Jackson, a former three-time heavyweight national cham pion for OSU, will be inducted posthumously to the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.

Transfers playing bet ter than anticipated The Cowboys were rela tively thin heading into Sat urday’s game. So thin, that a plethora of inexperienced pros pects and newcomers got their first significant type of action. Sophomore running back and

Texas A&M transfer Deondre Jackson tallied the second most carries of all OSU run ning backs amid injury from starting running back Dominic Richardson. Jackson recorded seven carries for 22 yards.

“(Jackson) ran the ball well and played hard,” Gundy said. “It was certainly some thing we can work with.”

Sophomore offensive lineman and Vanderbilt trans fer Jason Brooks also got his first amount of significant in-game action with a start at

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right guard. Gundy was also pleased with Brooks’ perfor mance, adding that he could be a viable piece for OSU’s offen sive line down the stretch.

“(Brooks) played a good game,” Gundy said. “We might have found something out that we didn’t know.”

Reaction to Big 12’s new media deal

Gundy hasn’t been coy about his admiration for new Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark, stating numerous times how he believes the con

ference is in great hands under Yormark’s leadership.

The newly-named Big 12 commissioner inked the con ference into a six-year media rights agreement with ESPN and Fox that profits up to $2.28 billion. The new deal will begin at the start of the 202526 athletic year and go through the 2030-31 season.

Yormark is well-re nowned for his pedigree as a businessman. However, this latest media rights deal assures Gundy that his program and

conference are in fact in good hands.

“Well that’s one thing I was right on, I said (Yormark) would do it,” Gundy said. “I said Oklahoma State would be fine. I didn’t know anything about the new teams coming in. But I knew that we were in good shape… Once (the Big 12) hired him, I knew that we were in good shape, and then he secured it.”

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HIMALAYAN GROCERY

Mackenzie Janish

OSU’s 48-0 loss to Kansas State is the largest loss in the Mike Gundy era.

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Breaking down the numbers OSU suffers biggest defeat in two decades

large of a defeat.

November, 11, 2000. Twenty-two years ago.

Braden Bush Staff Reporter

The Cowboys did some thing Saturday that they haven’t done in 13 years.

They were held scoreless.

Here’s a look at some other numbers from No. 9 OSU’s 48-0 blowout loss to No. 22 Kansas State.

8,023: days since OSU lost by a wider margin

This was the first time OSU has been shut out since a 27-0 Bedlam loss in 2009. It takes an ever deeper dive into the OSU record book to find the last time OSU suffered this

The average gallon of gas was $1.26. NSYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye” was a top song. USB flash drives had just released. Oh, and Texas Tech beat OSU 58-0.

1: OSU tackle for loss

OSU entered Saturday sixth in the nation in tackles for loss, averaging nearly nine per game. But the defense couldn’t move the KSU offen sive line, which gave quar terback Will Howard a clean pocket where he threw four touchdowns, including TD passes of 31, 38 and 41 yards.

The usually formidable OSU run defense showed glimpses of the first half of Texas, where it gave up sev eral big runs. KSU opened run lanes and averaged 5.4 yards per carry. One of the Cow boys’ strengths, getting into

the backfield, was missing on Saturday.

3: drives in which OSU reached KSU territory after Presley’s first-quarter fumble After wide receiver Bren nan Presley fumbled inside the Wildcat red zone with 2:46 in the first quarter, the Cowboys had trouble getting back. Actu ally, they never got back into the red zone.

OSU didn’t get back into Wildcat territory until the four-minute mark of the third quarter (over 28 game minutes later), but it stalled and turned the ball over on downs at the KSU 43. The Cowboys again reached the KSU 41 in the fourth quarter before another turnover on downs. The closest OSU got to the red zone again was after a Gunnar Gundy 22yard scramble that put OSU on the KSU 32 with two minutes left in the game.

2: completions on passes of over 15 yards

A week after OSU had nearly 400 passing yards, the Cowboys struggled to throw the ball down the field. OSU attempted a dozen passes of over 15 yards but only connect ed on two of those. A couple of those were drops and a couple were under-throws by Sanders, who left the game favoring his shoulder.

The offense was already one-dimensional, unable to run the ball, so the inability to pose a deep threat stagnated the offense. The offensive line — which struggled to open running lanes, also — gave up three sacks, even though KSU often rushed only three line men.

The pressure on Sanders and the extra players in cover age caused the passing game to struggle, amounting only

163 passing yards — its lowest output of the season.

38: rushing yards in the first three quarters OSU tried to establish the run, but it never material ized. It ran the ball 14 times for 37 yards in the first half. In the third, already facing a monstrous deficit, OSU tried the run seven times and amassed a single yard.

OSU ended the first three quarters with an abysmal average of 1.8 yards per rush on 21 attempts. That ineptness allowed KSU to rush three defenders and drop eight into coverage, which helped KSU shut off passing lanes.

This has been a theme of OSU’s offense all year. If the Cowboys can’t run the ball, the passing games pays the price, too.

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Lifestyle

Students learn fitness at Colvin Halloween dance party

Michael Clark Staff Reporter

Walking into the Colvin Tennis Court last Halloween would greet you with an interesting sight. When people think of dance parties, they tend to imagine boring, awkward high school socials.

On Monday, the OSU Depart ment of Wellness managed to break that standard with a high energy, fun dance party that also had OSU students breaking a sweat.

The event took place at 7pm, lit only by streetlights and glowsticks. The department hired dance instructor, Heather Yates, who spoke positively about the event.

“I think that the Zumba and dance stuff is really fun,” Yates said.

“It’s a good exercise, and people don’t mind doing it because it seems fun. So, it sometimes interests people to exer cise.”

Throughout the event, Yates taught students various stretches, exercises, and dance moves to practice while playing popular music such as “Levitating” from Dua Lipa.

Students had a great experience with the event as well.

Joshua Fincannon said he was surprised yet satisfied with his experi ence.

“Before coming to this event, I didn’t know it was going to be this much fun, actually,” he said. “I think a lot more people should come and fill up the tennis courts.”

He went on to explain that the exercises led to him drenched in sweat, and also commented that a mosh pit would be an exciting addition to the activity.

Aiden Rivera and Jack Pitts, two sophomore students filming the event for a class, also had a great time help ing record the venue and interact with participating students.

“I found about this through the Oklahoma State website. It’s a lot bet ter than I thought it would be,” Rivera said. “I like the production, I honestly didn’t expect there to be an instructor. But she’s teaching the dances.”

Pitts had a great time as well.

“I found about this through Aiden, we thought it would be good work for a project,” he said. “It sounds awesome. We’ve been here for an hour,

and the instructor is awesome. She’s been standing here this entire time, and everyone’s doing exactly what she wants. We’ve got glowsticks, it’s just awesome.”

Best of all, various students came dressed in creative and entertaining outfits. Such as a bumblebee outfit, two students wore matching “Squid Game outfits” and a girl in a Mike Wazowski costume from “Monster’s Inc” won the costume contest.

Attendees of the Colvin Hallow een dance party had an excellent time learning new dance moves, exercising and making new friends under street lights. A perfect way to enjoy the Hal loween season.

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Students broke a sweat under the lights at the Halloween dance party held at the Colvin Recreation Center tennis courts.

Photos by Cole Gueldenzoph

Lifestyle

‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ returns to OSU

of the film.

With some things, you just have to see it to believe it. Unsurprisingly, Oklahoma State Univer sity’s production of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” is no different.

Walking into this film for the first time was like walking into an inside joke you know nothing about. However, becoming a part of this 50-year tradition is the best way to watch this film for the first time.

To the uninitiated, “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” is a cult classic film from 1975. It soon found its place among many people in the LGBTQ community at the time, and quickly became an icon in cinema for its progressive themes of self-expression and pride. Because of its styl ish, bold, and its ahead of its time nature , fans began rewatching it multiple times in theaters dressed as the characters and reenact ing scenes in front of the screen. This soon spiraled into fans lovingly mocking the dialogue and ad libbing quips to yell at the screen.

For example, when ever the protagonists Brad and Janet’s names are spoken, audience members screamed “A**HOLE” or “S***” in retaliation. Whenever the narrator appears, the audience will yell about how he seems to have no neck. When the narrator described two characters as “being in separate rooms” an eager audience member cried back ‘YOUR NECK IS IN A SEPARATE ROOM!”

To an outsider, it seems disrespectful. Yet, it’s all a love letter and testament to the quotable, quirky nature

OSU’s Student Unions Activities Board has put on yearly perfor mances of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” on Halloween, but took a two-year hiatus because of COVID-19 protocols. This year marks the phe nomenon’s grand return to college campus. “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” opened to hundreds of students packed into the Student Union Theatre. The host nicely asked any people seeing the film for the first time to sit on the stage with them.

As is tradition, the film had live actors on the stage of the Student Union Theatre to reenact and dance along to certain scenes. They even moved into the audience and interacted with them, with many people yelling flirta tious comments at these actors as the performed.

When Frank-N-Furter sang the song “I’m Going Home” the audience threw hundreds of playing cards onto the stage. And unsur prisingly, at the end of the performance, the perform ers and film received a standing ovation long past the rolling of the credits.

It’s impossible to deny that “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” is a staple of the Halloween season. For the past 50 years, it has rolled into se lective theaters for a short time for audiences to mock, reenact, and ultimately cel ebrate it. Because of this, “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” doesn’t just stand the test of time, it seems to be immortal, and will certainly carry on for many more years.

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Katy Kemp starred as Eddie in the Student Union Activities Board’s production of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”

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