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OSU Notebook

OSU receiver Dez Bryant, shown Oct. 4 in Stillwater, is a consensus All- American this season. DARYL WILSON/Tulsa World
 
By MATT DOYLE, World sports writer
Published: 12/18/2008  2:34 AM
Last Modified: 12/18/2008  2:39 AM

 Recruiting update: Oklahoma State signed four junior college players to national letters of intent Wednesday.

Defensive end Darius Hart of Pearl River (Miss.) Community College, defensive tackle Horace Hubbard of Fort Scott (Kan.) Community College, defensive back Andrew McGee of Copiah-Lincoln (Miss.) Community College and offensive lineman Anthony Morgan of Navarro (Texas) Junior College will enroll at OSU next month and participate in spring football.

"We feel like each of them can be of help to us and we're excited to have them," coach Mike Gundy said. "We had a lot of success with our junior college players that enrolled last January."

Hubbard is a former teammate of OSU safety Lucien Antoine and will bolster depth at defensive tackle.

Morgan played at the same junior college as OSU linebacker Donald Booker and could contend for a starting guard position.

McGee will provide immediate depth at a safety position that has only two healthy players slated to return, freshmen Johnny Thomas and Victor Johnson, and another in Antoine, who is rehabilitating a torn knee ligament.

Hart is a product of the same Mississippi junior college conference that has provided OSU with offensive lineman Steve Denning, defensive end Jeremiah Price and former running back Dantrell Savage in recent years.

Bryant's honors: Wide receiver Dez Bryant secured consensus All-America status this week. He was a first-team selection by the Associated Press on Tuesday. On Wednesday, Bryant was named first-team All-America by the Sporting News.

Bryant had earlier been named first-team All-America by the Walter Camp Foundation and the American Football Coaches Association.

The AP, Walter Camp Foundation, Football Writers Association of America, AFCA, and Sporting News All-America teams are recognized by the NCAA in determining consensus All-America status.

"It's great, but I look at it as a team thing," Bryant said. "Zac (Robinson) has got to throw me the ball and the line and other receivers have got to block, and I have got to catch the ball. It's a team award to me."

The Sporting News selected running back Kendall Hunter on its second-team All-America list.

Interest in DeForest?: An Iowa State Web site CycloneSportsReport.com has linked OSU associate head coach Joe DeForest as a possible candidate for the vacant Cyclones head coaching position.

"Obviously anytime you get a chance to be a head football coach at any level it's of interest," DeForest said. "Being a Big 12 head coach is also very intriguing. I've known this league for a long time, and if they see fit to interview me, I'd be more than happy to listen."

Holiday Bowl memory: Robinson hopes to get the same opportunity his head coach got in OSU's only Holiday Bowl appearance 20 years ago.

In OSU's 62-14 rout of Wyoming in the 1988 Holiday Bowl, Gundy caught a 17-yard pass from Barry Sanders.

"We need to tell him to put in something for me — a throwback or something," said Robinson, who was a standout receiver his junior year at Littleton (Colo.) Chatfield High School before switching to quarterback his senior year.

Future series scrapped: OSU's planned home-and-home series with North Carolina State in 2014 and 2015 has been cancelled, according to an OSU athletic department official.
By MATT DOYLE, World sports writer

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Stomp, (12/18/2008 12:11:53 PM)
Great comment by Dez. It does take the team to win the individual awards. And if you don't win 9 games and play on national TV, you probably don't get to be All-American...that said, the guy made a ton of one on one, one on two plays, with the ball simply lofted into the air. Arguably, the best college wide reciever in the country. Can't wait to see what he does in San Diego and 2009. Go pokes!
 

 
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