This video is from 2010 when Boone’s team was one year from winning the Big 12 championship and in theory one missed field goal in Ames from playing for the national championship. This was Boone at his apex in franchise ownership at Oklahoma State.
Would this Boone have fired Mike Gundy yesterday?
I would say Mike Holder would have tried to stop him, but on this one Boone would have prevailed because what Gundy did was so stupid it will hurt the program for years to come from a perception and recruiting standpoint.
Gundy has every right in the world to wear a stupid dumbass T-shirt, but what he doesn’t have a right to do is permanently damage the perception of a state funded university which leans heavily on the fact it needs elite black athletes to make its football teams competitive.
Putting aside any of the moral arguments…Boone would have had a problem with something this overtly stupid.
This is why Boone would have fired Mike Gundy yesterday even though Boone was far from being politically correct. The question would have been would Mike Holder as per the norm saved Mike Gundy from himself?
Mike Gundy put his tail between his legs today and said all the right things to save his $5.2 million a year job. Again…he has a right to wear any stupid T-shirt he wants to wear. But my goodness…when you represent a university and a state one would hope both entities don’t embarrass themselves to the extent they can’t continue to be viable.
Former O State coach Pat Jones pretty much agrees with my take.
I think Boone would have fired Mike Gundy today.
But for the now and here it appears Chuba Hubbard just became the youngest head coach in DI college football for a year at least.