I’m going to write about Nikki Haley tomorrow, but first I want to get started on here with Mike Gundy. I’m actually starting a new project called The Mullet King. It has nothing to do with Joe Exotic, but rather it will chronicle Mike Gundy’s tumultuous relationship with the late T Boone Pickens.
One of my buddies who covered O State is going to help me out here a little bit if needed. Truth be told…I might teach him a few things about Boone business wise.
I think it’s a fascinating story in that in reality this scrawny kid from Midwest City in essence conquered the man who along with Carl Icahn was at one time the premier corporate raider in the United States.
In essence what Boone did at O State was leverage a public state funded Power Five football franchise because he wanted to beat his OU and Texas business adversaries like he did in the oil field at one time.
Don’t think this is a diss at Gundy…because there are some things I really like about Mike Gundy. He may not even know it — but I interviewed him several years ago as we sat at adjoining tables at my brother’s Panera Bread restaurant in Stillwater. Neither one of us at the time knew I was going to tell his story as The Mullet King.
Hell…he may even be seen as some sort of rock star in my story–and the thing is…I loved Boone as well. It will be a story which combines two of my passionate interests…college football and the oil/gas bidness. I feel obligated to do this for my friend in heaven…Dan Jenkins.
If ever in real life there was a real Big Ed Bookman it was T Boone Pickens, and if ever in real life there was a Coach Alvin Parker it didn’t turn out to be Mike Gundy.