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STILLWATER — As the Oklahoma State football team began spring practice Tuesday, the Cowboys were greeted with new decor inside the Sherman E. Smith Training Center.

Hanging in the north and south ends of the complex were banners celebrating each of OSU’s bowl appearances. The north side banners were from bowls played in under coach Mike Gundy, featuring an image of the respective bowl rings, while the ones on the south side came from before Gundy became coach in 2005.

“I feel like we live here now instead of just renting the place,” Gundy said Friday during the Cowboys’ first media availability of the spring. “You know how when you rent a place you don’t hang any pictures? ... Up until I was, like, 28 years old, we never hung any pictures ’cause we got fired so many times we never were in a house very long.”

The Cowboys have yet to receive their rings from December’s Camping World Bowl victory, so that banner will be added shortly. Banners marking OSU’s 2011 Big 12 championship, 2010 Big 12 South title and major award winners will be hung on the center’s east wall in two months.

Linebacker Calvin Bundage noted there’s another banner he wants Cowboys to be able to add.

“I love ’em,” he said. “We need a national championship one there, though.”

Most RB depth, talent in nation?

Running back Justice Hill enters the spring as the most important piece of OSU’s offense. The players behind him, though, also have potential for impact. With LD Brown, J.D. King and Chuba Hubbard as Hill’s backup committee, Gundy believes there are few if any teams with better running back situations than the Cowboys.

“We could be as deep and as talented at that position as anybody in the country,” Gundy said.

Gundy said his preference would be to limit Hill, who rushed for 1,537 yards as a sophomore in 2017, to 16 to 18 carries a game.

“The good news is with King and Chuba and LD that we can keep him fresh,” Gundy said. “I was concerned in a big way last year about him taking too many hits.”

Gundy excited about’ potential

While Taylor Cornelius and Keondre

Wudtee will spend the spring trying to prove themselves worthy of being OSU’s starting quarterback, a former quarterback will be adjusting to a new position.

The Cowboys have elected to move Jelani Woods, who redshirted as a freshman in 2017, to Cowboy back, a tight endfull back hybrid.

Listed at 6-foot-7 and 251 pounds, Woods had played tight end before becoming a quarterback in high school.

“We like his length and athletic ability,” Gundy said.

“This will be a growing and learning year for him. Whatever we get out of him this first year is a bonus, but I would expect at this time next year that you’ll start to see him make some big-time improvement.”

OL Galloway, Keyes to miss spring

The Cowboys have begun spring practice without three potential starters on the offensive line. Dylan Galloway and Marcus

Keyes will miss the spring after having shoulder surgery, while Larry Williams is being withheld while awaiting an NCAA ruling on his eligibility.