I’m a fan of Boone’s actually. I thought he should have fired Gundy several times throughout the years. But Mike Holder always walked Boone back off the plank.
I would have fired Gundy the first time he played around with Tennessee as leverage to extract more money for his New York Yankees job after refusing to play a legitimate non-conference schedule.
I would have canned Mike Gundy’s ass right there and then. If you want top ten money—then play a top ten schedule. For crying out loud…Saban plays in the SEC West and plays a top flight non-conference team every year.
Let’s be candid here. Texas has been a massive underacheiver the past decade and OU’s inability to play defense at a high level should have opened the door for O State to at the minimum have won four Big 12 championships during Gundy’s tenure.
Gundy didn’t get it done for whatever reasons. Boone leveled the playing field with his money, but when push came to shove he allowed Mike Gundy to remain as his coach to his last day.
So now here we sit and what Mike Gundy did this week is effectively destroy what Boone’s money set out to do from the onset of his contributions. That being…to make it where O State could possibly recruit elite black athletes to its program at an OU or Texas level.
That’s what Boone’s money originally did, but that was just completely pissed away because in Mike Gundy’s own words he’s ‘a dumbass’.
I mean…what do you say at some point. It’s just stunning how despite almost playing for the national championship in 2011 it has reverted back to this level in Stillwater where it appears no one has a clue.
Here’s Boone in 2014 talking on Iowa Press about alternative energy within the prism of U.S. policy. What he should have been talking about was why he had just fired his knucklehead football coach.