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Official Gundy gone.

Gundy had about as good of a run in the Big 12 as you're going to have. The man had 8 - 10 or more win seasons. 2 of those 12 win and 1 - 11 win seasons. He had a couple 9 win season. The Hurricanes could only dream of that. Puts us to shame. I personally believe his team never recovered from the 26 transfers that left in 24. It just killed them. I am not a fan of Gundy, either.
 
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One of the things he excelled at was finding and hiring coordinators. Feel like bigger programs were always poaching his assistants.
 
Watched a lot of the Tulsa-Okie State game last Friday and Gundy had that eyes glazed-over expression of a boxer who'd taken too many shots to the dome.

It was almost sad how out of sorts he looked
 
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Caned Peach said:
Should've left there years ago when he had the chance.
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He had one shot at glory and that was the 2011 season which, if they would’ve just made the field goal against Iowa State they would’ve played for the national title that year against LSU. That was their year and they never got another real chance again after that.
 
hoops156 said:
dude was about average and had a ton of resources. still underperformed.
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Not true at all.

He overachieved.

OK ST did not & does not have anywhere near the resources of their counterparts in the Big XII & regionally in Oklahoma/Texas. He went 170-90 (65%) with a 12-6 Bowl record.

OK ST was never viewed as a viable contending program until he got there, he set that standard for them to even be expected as a winning program.

Won the most games in school history & put together the best season they had ever had in the modern era.

It fizzled out & they couldn't keep up as the money flood came into CFB, but to act like he wasn't a good Coach based on the last 2 seasons isn't an accurate assessment of his body of work.

He did more with less than the majority of Coaches that get high praise.

Very few could win in a situation like OK ST.
 
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Memnon said:
Not true at all.

He overachieved.

OK ST did not & does not have anywhere near the resources of their counterparts in the Big XII & regionally in Oklahoma/Texas. He went 170-90 (65%) with a 12-6 Bowl record.

OK ST was never viewed as a viable contending program until he got there, he set that standard for them to even be expected as a winning program.

Won the most games in school history & put together the best season they had ever had in the modern era.

It fizzled out & they couldn't keep up as the money flood came into CFB, but to act like he wasn't a good Coach based on the last 2 seasons isn't an accurate assessment of his body of work.

He did more with less than the majority of Coaches that get high praise.

Very few could win in a situation like OK ST.
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I believe 18 straight winning seasons.
 
Lazarre said:
He didn’t evolve fast enough with the sport.. took him to long to embrace the portal, took him to long to embrace NIL and was never a guy that loved recruiting.
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Yeap, and he used to have some very strong coaching staffs, and that seems to have dried out.
 
I'm old enough to remember when Ron VanDerLinden took over as HC for my alma-mater (UofMaryland) and he had two young graduate assistants in Pat Fitzgerald and Mike Gundy. Time flies, I'm old. Lol.
 
Empirical Cane said:
His Foundation continued to give after his passing, but in lesser amounts than when he was alive. I believe in total ~$800MM+.
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All the money that T.Boone gave was not strictly for athletics, most of it was for the University at-large & particularly academics.

What he mainly provided for Oklahoma ST's athletic program, was Stadium & facilities upgrades.
 
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Memnon said:
All the money that T.Boone gave was not strictly for athletics, most of it was for the University at-large & particularly academics.

What he mainly provided for Oklahoma ST's athletic program, was Stadium & facilities upgrades.
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I looked it up....allegedly...

$300MM athletics related...$750MM academics related...

generous man...
 
He will be back around that program in some capacity in the future, some bs title you know how that goes. Way too many ties to the school for there to be bad blood on either side. His time had just run its course and they need someone who is more knowledgeable about the current state of cfb. Stillwater will welcome him back
 
Would make for a good offensive assistant, hope we can get him as another voice/opinion in the building. Same like Saban would do with fired HCs.
 
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