Thursday, March 23, 2023
Gundy recaps OSU’s offseason full of transfers and coaching change he last stepped behind a microphone. Replacing star players who entered the transfer portal and a defensive coordinator have kept the Cowboy staff Ben Hutchens busy this offseason. Staff Reporter Twenty Cowboys entered the transfer Three months ago, portal in the aftermath of OSU’s mediocre 2022 Mike Gundy sat in the season. Quarterback Arizona Diamondbacks Spencer Sanders, receivclubhouse after OSU’s 24-17 loss in Guaranteed ers John Paul Richardson and Stephon Johnson Jr. Rate Bowl and erupted. headlined the offensive A question about potentially making staff departures. Defensive end Trace Ford, linechanges upset Gundy, backer Mason Cobb and OSU’s football coach. Tuesday, Gundy showed cornerback Jabbar Muhammad were the biggest up to OSU’s first spring defensive losses. practice with his usual Gundy said his happy, back-slapping reaction to some of the attitude. That’s impresportal entries wasn’t too sive, because change, different from the reacwhat Gundy avoided talking about in Arizona, tion everybody else had. was the one constant in See Recap on page 2 the three months since
Jaiden Daughty The last time Mike Gundy, OSU football coach, addressed the media was after OSU’s 24-17 loss to Wisconsin in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl.
Gen Z job market turnover expected to exceed 2022 levels Dee DePass Star Tribune
Mia Ledbetter OSU fell to UNT 65-59 in overtime after Caleb Asberry missed two potential game-winning free throws late in regulation.
OSU’s season ends after missed late-game opportunities Going into Tuesday night, he shot a team-high 85.9% from the charity stripe. With 20 seconds left in regulation, OSU had its Ashton Slaughter top choice at the line, in an even 55-55 contest. Staff Reporter Asberry missed both. The score remained Caleb Asberry is the tied at the end of regulago-to guy from the free tion, and the Cowboys throw line for a reason. ended up losing 65-59 in
overtime to North Texas in the NIT Quarterfinals. “We have him (Asberry) shoot technical free throws,” coach Mike Boynton said. “There’s a reason you want a guy like that at the line cause you feel confident he’s gonna make them.” Asberry’s free throws didn’t decide the Cowboys fate, though.
At halftime, it seemed unlikely that the Cowboy faithful would have ended up sticking around for the full game. The Cowboys scored 17 points in the first half, their lowest scoring output in a half this season.
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If you think the Great Resignation is over, think again. The latest snapshot of the job market by recruiting giant Robert Half shows that more Generation Z workers are likely to change jobs in 2023 than last year. About 60% of 18- to 25-year-olds said they would likely to change jobs in early 2023, up from 53% last year. More than 50% of employees with two to four years at a company and working parents also said they were looking. The trend worries hiring managers and is leading companies to bolster retention efforts in a stubbornly tight job market. As the U.S. economy emerged from pandemic disruption in 2021, nearly 50 million people quit their jobs, a record. Even more workers — 50.5 million, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — resigned last year. The youngest workers came out of the pandemic wanting bigger paychecks — and then “an extremely flexible work schedule.” Work-life balance was most important for 45% of Gen Z and 40% of millennials, said Jennifer Carlson, vice president and region director of Robert Half for the Twin Cities. In contrast, only 30% of surveyed baby boomers insisted on flexible schedules during their job hunt. “We do know
there are clear preferences for younger people to work in as agile and flexible a work situation as they can find,” Carlson said. “That is clear as a bell.” It also should not be a surprise, said Lola Brown, 22, a student and employee at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota — and soon to be a job hunter. This spring, she plans to quit her job, move to Washington, D.C., and hopefully find work as a policy analyst. If the pandemic taught Gen Z-ers anything, “it’s that everything can change on a dime,” she said. They have “to be nimble and to pivot.” The pandemic also changed how young employees view employers, she and other young workers said. “There’s a new recognition of what is fair and expected, whether that be how much I am in the office or how much sick time (I get). It is not the same as pre-pandemic,” Brown said. Paul Olson, 23, craved that flexibility. He had a good job with a medical equipment distributor. But one day as he waiting to talk to a Mayo Clinic physician about surgery tools, he was watching construction workers. Olson had always wanted to work with his hands, and that day sent him soul-searching. He is now a carpenter apprentice with Hopkins-based Braxton Hancock & Sons, building trusses, walls and stairwells for apartment buildings in the Twin Cities. See Gen Z on page 6