Pretty much any team with a modicum of success loses their top assistants. We lose ours to the blue bloods, and the blue bloods lose theirs to head coaching jobs. If you’re not losing your OC or DC every few years that’s probably a bad sign. I have no idea why Gundy doesn’t realize that losing your assistants to better opportunities is a sign you made a great hire. It should also make it easier to attract the next standout hire.
You're framing this the wrong way.
I believe Gundy may have taken the fan base for granted. I’m hearing ardent Gundy lovers saying they are ready to move on.
He has a rolling $25 million buyout. I doubt we fire Gundy. He does need to be pressured and given the money to bring in elite coaching talent.
Hiring Cale would only create negative-recruiting opportunities against us. You simply can't have an assistant on staff that said what he said in today's society, regardless of the context in which he said it. Hiring someone like him is probably the last thing we need right now, considering the negative optics that would come with it. I suspect this is why Mike hasn't already hired him, considering he has been unemployed for over a year now.
If he thought that, then he now realizes it was a huge miscalculation. Because this season is going to be a total embarrassment for him and put more fan heat and media pressure on him then he’s ever had. He would have been better off hiring good assistants and dealing with the turnover. He may now get the administration in his kitchen making decisions for him which I guarantee is the worst case scenario in his mind.
Watch his post-game press conferences from the last 10 years objectively, and you'll see a guy who is way too comfortable after losing. He jokes around like its no big deal, and tries to get cute by talking about anything but football. He's even openly mocked people who criticize the program or specific calls, and degraded the fans on multiple occasions.
I coached high school for many years. You're right everyone would like to win, but not everyone is willing to do what it takes to win. The old saying that you have to hate losing more than you love winning is true and I just don't think that's where Mike Gundy is. He is far too comfortable with losing. I'm sure he doesn't like it, but he's obviously okay with it because he has refused to do anything to change; he has not adapted.
That may be optimistic.
We need to hire a guy with recruiting ties to Texas.
I don’t blame the Administration for renewing Gundy’s contract after last year, only because I also bought in on the excuses made for the dismal season and this year will be better. And to be fair, we/they owe Gundy that much. Then all the post season defections came and Gundy’s bizarre stance in the portal and NIL. For me personally, I had the feeling it was the beginning of the end.
No we/they don't. The true writing has been on the wall going back to the CMU debacle back in 2016. He's had so much rope to hang himself, he can fall all the way to China and the rope won't catch.
He isn't robbing the university by getting paid on the terms of the contract they gave him. We will not fire Gundy because we can't afford $25 million in buyout cash and that number never goes down, because his contract is rolling. If you attempt to restructure after this season, I don't know what leverage the university has or doesn't have. Either way it is a multi-year project to get the buyout down to something affordable.
I said he is "effectively" robbing the university, meaning he took advantage of some very unsavvy and/or star-struck Oklahoma State officials to secure a intractable agreement, after which he proceeded to get lazier and worse and worse at his job with absolutely no incentives to improve or disincentives to not get worse. His apathy , arrogance, and complacency seem willful. His constant "we got out-coached" statements after losses should be enough to enrage those "in control", but apparently they are just fine with it as we hear na'ary a peep out of them. After Gundy's ongoing shenanigans and last year's meltdown and portal calamity, I can't for the life of me figure out how OSU sold out season tickets. Fool me once...
While that would be a plus, I'd rather have a guy with a high-powered successful offense.
Doesn’t Art Briles have ties to Texas?
