Good Friday Morning Pokes. Mama always said, “a watched pot never boils.”

Well, we’ve all reached the point of the summer where we just want the clock to hit zero.

20 days away from the official start of OSU athletics. 5 days away from the start of football training camp.

When will it be here already?!?

Don’t worry folks, we’ll count you down and much more

What else is stirring in today’s edition of the Brew? Check it out!

⚾️ All In The Family
✍️ Putting The Ink On It
🏈 Countdown to Kickoff
🤠 And so much more!

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Bedlam.

One word invokes so much emotion in the Orange and Black faithful.

The games are talked about for years and years and this week, we bring back a Cowboy that is responsible for one of the all-time famous Bedlam plays with a visit from Brodrick Brown.

Brodrick sits down with Deion and Clint to talk about the play, his journey, what he’s been up to and so much more!

We promise, you DO NOT want to miss this week!

📈 STOCK UP

🔼 All In The Family. We keep telling ya’ll… there’s something special about Stillwater.

Two former OSU teammates are returning to join the Cowboys’ baseball coaching staff as Mark Ginther steps into the program’s recruiting coordinator role and Victor Romero into an assistant coaching role.

Ginther returns to Stillwater after spending the last five seasons as an assistant coach at West Virginia. The Tulsa native was a standout infielder for the Cowboys from 2009-12 before serving four seasons on the OSU staff from 2015-18.

Romero played two seasons for the Cowboys in 2012 and 2013 and has served in a variety of roles within the program over the last decade, including the last seven as a full-time staff member.

🔼 Lights, Camera, Action. This week kicked off media shoots for several OSU squads this week, we’ve got plenty of high quality flicks to share over the coming weeks, but we’ll give you a quick sneak peek.

🔼 Putting Ink On It. Earlier this month, OSU continued its long-standing tradition of multiple selections in the annual MLB draft.

This year, the Cowboys had six players selected in the 2023 MLB Draft, five of them coming in the top 10 rounds.

OSU's five picks in the first 10 rounds tied for the second-most in program history. A record seven Cowboys were top 10 round picks in 2022, and the Pokes previously had five selections in 1984, 2008 and 2016.

In 11 years under head coach Josh Holliday, OSU has now had 64 MLB Draft picks, with 27 of those going in the first 10 rounds.

This week? Those picks are putting some ink to contracts as Juaron Watts-Brown (Blue Jays), Nolan McLean (Mets), Roc Riggio (Yankees) and Marcus Brown (Nationals) all signed their official pro contracts.

Congrats fellas, go show them what you’re made of!

🔼 Three Of A Kind. Cowboy Wrestling have long been associated with Team USA Wrestling and this weekend is no different.

Three Cowboys are part of the Team USA Roster that is competing in the prestigious Poland Open in Warsaw on Sunday, July 30.

Dalton Fix (61 kg), Dustin Plott (79 kg) and Braden Thompson (86 kg) will all be in action during the men’s freestyle competition that will start on Sunday at 4 a.m. CST.

🔼 Our Favorite Jonas. You all can have Nick, Joe and Kevin? We’ll take Baumgartner.

That’s right, the debate over who your favorite Jonas is should be simple, it’s Jonas Baumgartner from the OSU men’s golf squad.

This week, the Bielefeld, Germany native was ranked No. 10 in the PGA Tour University’s preseason rankings for the class of 2024.

This past spring for the Cowboys, Baumgartner received honorable mention All-America status and was named a first-team All-Big 12 pick.

He tallied five top-10 finishes on the year. He picked up his first career victory this spring at the Mountaineer Invitational and had runner-up showings at the Jackson T. Stephens Cup and the Big 12 Championship.

In partnership with the World Amateur Golf Ranking, PGA TOUR University ranks players based on the last two years of their collegiate careers. Eligible tournaments include NCAA Division I men's team competitions, official PGA TOUR tournaments and select DP World Tour events.

🔼 Getting to Know You….. Watch out folks, Quion Williams has a microphone!

That’s right, throughout the summer, we’ll be sitting down with Quion and a new face of his choice so our Orange and Black faithful get a sneak peek into who some of our newest Cowboys are and their personalities.

🔼 The Honors Court. Holding court in the classroom? That’s exactly what the OSU men’s hoops team did this past year.

Their achievements were honored recently as the Cowboys were one of just three Big 12 men’s basketball programs recognized by the National Association of Basketball Coaches for their outstanding classroom achievement.

Rising seniors Weston Church and Carson Sager were named to the NABC Honors Court and the Cowboys collectively earned the organization's Team Academic Excellence Award.

🏈 COUNTDOWN TO KICKOFF: 36 DAYS

36 solo tackles. 

That’s what hard-hitting Xavier Benson put on display last fall as the redshirt senior returns for his final year in Stillwater as the team’s leading returning tackler from 2022.

In total, Benson finished with 76 tackles on the year, four of which were for a loss. He also added eight QB hurries and two pass breakups.

The Texarkana, Texas native, who came to OSU after two years at Tyler Junior College, tallied seven or more tackles in seven of the Cowboys’ 13 games last fall.

🤔 COWBOY TRIVIA

Earlier this week, the OSU cross country squads released their full slate for the upcoming 2023 season.

The Cowboys and Cowgirls will be looking to defend their back-to-back titles on both the men’s and women’s side.

When was the last time a Big 12 team accomplished that feat prior to last season?

Got a guess?

Scroll on down to the bottom of this email for the answer!

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The guys will be doing route running, wind sprints, studying film and much more.

How can you prepare as fans? Deep diving into all the offseason interviews, videos, stories and everything in between at OSU Max.

We’ve got all the behind the scene action from last week’s Big 12 Media Days in Arlington when Coach Gundy and the guys took on the hard hitting questions and set the tone for the upcoming 2023 Cowboy football season.

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🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: 2017-18.

Iowa State was the last Big 12 team to sweep both the men’s and women’s cross country titles in back-to-back seasons prior to the Cowboys and Cowgirls doing so this past year.

Finish the week strong, ya’ll!