Football players become broadcasters. Vice versa at OSU?
Published: 9/17/2012 1:08 PM
Last Modified: 9/17/2012 1:08 PM
Do the number of ex-football players in the media now outnumber the amount of players who chose other retirement jobs?
It seems like everyone who has ever thrown a pass or a block is retiring from football to a broadcast booth.
From the turning-the-tables department: I hope a kid who spent Saturday in a broadcast booth gets to put on pads this week.
Jase Chilcoat is an Oklahoma State student who is in the university’s sports media and broadcasting program. While the Cowboys were playing a Saturday game against Louisiana, Chilcoat was broadcasting the game for a class assignment. His teacher (OSU play-by-play man Dave Hunziker) was doing the “real” broadcast.
Chilcoat watched starting quarterback Wes Lunt sustain a knee injury on the sixth play. Chilcoat also may have been watching his future change.
A former Midwest City quarterback, Chilcoat once was a walk-on quarterback for the Cowboys. If Lunt is out for a chunk of the season, Chilcoat could get drafted back into uniform as the “new” third-team quarterback behind J.W. Walsh and Clint Chelf. Or at least that’s the hint offensive coordinator Todd Monken dropped Saturday.
“We had a walk-on guy named Jase Chilcoat who is still around campus somewhere,” Monken said. “We’ll have to recall him because we don’t have anybody else. I was on the headset going we might have to get him because at least he knows some of what we are doing.”
Coach Mike Gundy confirmed that Chilcoat could be a option for quarterback depth. Two transfer quarterbacks are on campus, but they are unavailable for use this season, according to Monken.
So, paging Jase Chilcoat....
“Monk called me yesterday and we’re working things out,” Chilcoat said in a Facebook message Monday. “No word yet though... I don’t know what this semester holds for me, but I remember the offense and would be good to go should it work out!”
Writer-turned-Detroit-quarterback George Plimpton once was a Paper Lion. So why shouldn’t Chilcoat -- who wants to be the voice of a college football team someday -- go from play-by-play to player?
Written by
Jimmie Tramel
Sports Writer
