I’ve never thought Mullet King was a racist per se of the David Duke template. More just like the average white guy in Oklahoma or Alabama who has embraced the whole Donald Trump experience because Meet the Press is boring at times.
To me this whole racist thing with Gundy is ludicrous. I wouldn’t fire Gundy for the Trump network shirt, but I would have run him off if contractually possible because he doesn’t win enough quality games versus quality opponents to merit his pay.
This whole nonsense about O State being the second best team in the Big 12 these past twelve years is nonsense as well. The Big 12 sucks. It is a piece of junk football conference which has stayed relevant because Baker Mayfield, Kyler Murray, and Jalen Hurts transferred to Norman.
If you take away those three quarterback transfers I think it’s relatively clear…the Big 12 football wise isn’t all that much.
The Big 12 hasn’t won a national championship in football since Vince Young beat USC in 2006. The Big 12 hasn’t made it to the finals since Colt McCoy lost to Nick Saban when Saban won his first ring at Alabama.
Let me go further on Gundy. He’s won ‘One’ conference championship in his fifteen years at O State as the head coach. He leveraged Boone Pickens and Mike Holder so he wouldn’t have to play quality non-conference teams and with Brandon Weeden won ‘One’ championship in a conference which doesn’t tackle.
If Bob Stoops hadn’t repunted to the NFL’s most explosive current player in Super Bowl champion Tyreke Hill… you know what Gundy’s record would be versus the defense-less Sooners?
1-14.
Let’s call this like it is. With Mike Gundy as the head man at O State the program has about the same chance of beating the defense-less Sooners as it does in seeing Boone Pickens ride down from hydro-carbon heaven into his football stadium on Haley’s Comet.
$5.25 million per for this bullshit?
You know why Gundy never took any SEC West job? Because he would have finally had to coach against football teams which can actually tackle.
And just to be fair..that’s probably the same reason OU stayed away from the SEC West as well.
So when I read what Mike Holder and Burns Hargis said in relation to Gundy being a changed man by all of this…I kind of smiled.
Do this for me, guys.
Tell Gundy to play Ohio State in Columbus next year or LSU in the Kick-Off Classic.
See if we witness real change.