Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy opted to bring running back Ollie Gordon to Big 12 Media Days on Tuesday to hold him accountable for his recent DUI arrest.
While Gordon was faced with questions in Las Vegas regarding the arrest, Gundy said at media days that the Big 12’s reigning Offensive Player of the Year wouldn’t miss any game time, even after he was arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence on the morning of June 30.
When Gundy was later asked about his decision not to suspend his star running back, he commented on his reasoning not only to not suspend him, but also to bring him to Big 12 Media Days.
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Here’s Mike Gundy’s entire answer on Ollie Gordon not getting suspended. Not sure “I’ve probably done that a thousand time in my life. And, and, you know which is fine. I got lucky, people get lucky” was the way to go pic.twitter.com/zVig6u7p7V
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“So I looked it up on my phone, what would be the legal limit? Like, in Oklahoma, it’s .08. And Ollie was 0.1. So I looked it up. And it was, based on body weight — not to get into the legal side of it, but I thought, really, two or three beers, or four,” Gundy said. “I’m not justifying what Ollie did, I’m telling you what decision I made. Well I thought, ‘I’ve probably did that 1,000 times in my life.’ Which is fine. I got lucky, people get lucky.
“Ollie made a decision that he wished he could have done better. But when I talked to Ollie, I told him, ‘You’re lucky you got out light.’ … Nobody got hurt. We see people doing this and losing their lives across the country, not just football players but everybody. So [he] got out lucky.”
The Athletic’s Stewart Mandel later asked Gundy…
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Publish date : 2024-07-09 22:57:43
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