What Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy said about Utah

Oklahoma State head coach Mike Gundy speaks during the Big 12 media days in Las Vegas, Tuesday, July 9, 2024. Gundy and fellow longtime coach Kyle Whittingham will clash Saturday afternoon in Stillwater, Okla., in the Utes and Cowboys’ Big 12 openers. | Lucas Peltier, Associated Press

There’s usually an interesting moment when Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy gets behind a microphone.

Of course, there was the famous “I’m a man, I’m 40″ rant back in 2007, when the new-at-the-time Cowboys coach disagreed with a newspaper column about quarterback Bobby Reid and passionately defended his player.

A couple weeks ago, Oklahoma State senior linebacker Obi Ezeigbo, from Division II Gannon University, stepped in for injured Cowboys starting linebacker Collin Oliver and had nine tackles, and 3.5 tackles for loss (including two sacks) in OSU’s win over Arkansas.

Naturally, Gundy was asked about how the Cowboys picked up Ezeigbo in the transfer portal before the season, and the Oklahoma State coach in turn asked a question to the reporter.

“Do you want me to go back into coach-talk or do you want me to tell you the truth?”

“He was very inexpensive. The number of players that we go after that are ready to play at this level, we can’t afford. So, he was a good buy and a really quality young man that had had success and has physical characteristics we can work with and develop.

“So that’s why he ended up here, in my opinion. We saw some things we felt like we could develop into a good player at this level, and it wasn’t going to cost us the money we didn’t have.”

And on Monday, while in the middle of talking about Utah’s quarterback situation, Gundy delivered another classic moment.

A soda refrigerator was making a loud noise throughout the first few minutes of Gundy’s weekly press conference — he…

Source link : https://sports.yahoo.com/oklahoma-state-coach-mike-gundy-003753511.html

Author : Deseret News

Publish date : 2024-09-17 00:37:53

Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.