Mike Gundy
Mike Gundy
Mike Gundyis an American football coach and former player. He is currently the head football coach at Oklahoma State University–Stillwater. Gundy played college football at Oklahoma State, where he played quarterback from 1986 to 1989. He became Oklahoma State's coach on January 3, 2005. In 2007, he received national media attention for his heated criticism of a newspaper article on one of his players...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth12 August 1967
CityMidwest City, OK
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The decision we had to come down to is who has more potential at that position from this point on? We think that it's Bobby, ... The reason we didn't make the decision in two-a-days is because Bobby hadn't earned it. In the last couple weeks, he's really gotten a lot better a lot better.
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We look at the problems from the last game and try to get them fixed, but ... none of that really matters any more. What can we do to score enough points to beat Colorado? That's all that matters.
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I know what I'm saying, but I'm not trying to play the thing up. I still say when you have a quarterback who's a good player, you've got a chance in every game.
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I let my aggressiveness take me over there. A smart coach would have kicked a field goal.
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I'm actually pretty soft. I'm easy to get along with as long as they're paying the price.
It's really very simple, ... We got out-coached, out-schemed and out-played.
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They were so close. I wasn't even going to do it until the game. The offensive staff was tired of messing with it. They wanted to go ahead and name a starter, so that's fine.
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We had the same scheme, everything the same except we didn't hold or push in the back. It set the game up, set the tempo for us.
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We don't accept losing, but the way our team fought tonight against what I think is the best team in college football, I was very proud of it. I thought we had excellent game plans on both sides of the ball. They worked for us in the first half, and early in the fourth quarter we got worn down a little bit.
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Bobby has got to play better. (He) went through some growing pains . . . and I'm sure he would tell you that. He made some mistakes.
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We think that we've got it simple enough to where they're comfortable that they can go out there and perform. They have to be mature enough to block out the gameday atmosphere and not worry about where they're at and go out there and do what they've been coached to do.
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At some of the positions we have on our team, some of these freshmen are going to have to play, and we rely on them to learn and gather information and come out here and fight through being a college football player and be able to play in the first game. It takes a lot.
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I've never been in a game with as big of a momentum turn as that. I've never been in a game like that.
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This is cash . There's no substitute for cash in anything you do.