Mike Gundy (HC Oklahoma St. Cowboys)

[DaddyBigBucks]

Do you think her standards are higher than Jayson Blair's?

:tongue2:

It's not about standards, it's about competence. "The Grey Lady" insists that their plagiarists have the ability to make shit up from thin air. This "writer" has shown no such creativity, having sump-pumped her material from the internet.

 

[lvbuckeye]

Based solely on that picture, I'd hit that. With a shovel. And that's a fact, Ms. Carlson. Perhaps not something with which you're familiar.

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

espn.com

Oklahoma State gives Gundy one-year contract extension

Associated Press

Updated: November 30, 2007, 1:47 PM ET

STILLWATER, Okla. -- Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy was given a one-year contract extension Friday after leading the Cowboys to their second straight bowl game.
The extension would keep Gundy, who gained national notoriety for a postgame outburst in September, at the school through 2013. It is subject to approval by the school's board of regents next week.

Continued...

 

[BB73]

Oklahoma State gives Gundy one-year contract extension

I'm a man! I''m forty-one!

 

[Buckin' A]

I love that guy. He's the type of guy that could get his players to walk through fire for him. Now, if he could just get them to win a couple more games...

 

[Buckskin86]

Reid: Gundy's rant "basically ended my life"
By Tom Friend
ESPN The Magazine
(Archive)
Updated: April 11, 2008

The lethal combination of testosterone, Red Bull and YouTube got us to this awkward place. It's a place where a coach is a cult figure for hollering: "I'm a man! I'm 40!" And it's a place where a quarterback is a vagabond -- for not hollering back.

Seven months later, the tirade of the century still has legs, and those legs are leaning against a rusted goalpost in Houston. The quarterback's name is Bobby Reid, and if his pulse is quick and his tongue is acid, it's because he's still stewing over the 3-minute, 20-second rant that "basically ended my life."

The problem is, nobody realizes it. He was at a party last fall with a teammate, receiver Adarius Bowman, when two co-eds found out he and Bowman were football players at Oklahoma State.

Co-ed: "Oh! Your coach is such a great guy, the way he stood up for his quarterback!"

Bowman: "This is the boy you're talking about right here. This is Bobby Reid. This is the quarterback."

Co-ed: "Well, your coach is such a magnificent man. He's a hero in my book."

Reid: "Sweetheart, pump your brakes. It's not what you think it is. Let me tell you the story."

So he told her a story ...

They built this quarterback in Southern Texas. They dubbed him the next Vince Young, they charted his long passes with a tape measure, and, when he led his Houston high school to the 2003 Class 5A State title, they figured someday he'd be playing on Sundays.

Reid had it all: arm, legs, smarts, manners and an unlisted phone number. Then Oklahoma State coach Les Miles, offered him his first scholarship and a mesmerized Reid accepted. Ohio State recruited him anyway, and Reid even let Jim Tressel into his home. But Reid's word was oak, and Miles considered it the biggest recruiting coup at the school since Thurman Thomas.

The kid was 6-foot-4, 235 pounds and so quick he'd never taken a direct hit. Better yet, he'd graduated from high school early, which meant he could attend spring practice before his freshman season.

It had a certain Oklahoma State quarterback coach frothing at the mouth.

A quarterback coach named Mike Gundy.

ESPN - Reid: Gundy's rant "basically ended my life" - College Football

 

[shetuck]

ESPN - Reid: Gundy's rant "basically ended my life" - College Football

Great read...

The final indignity came the next week. With OSU leading Nebraska 45-14, Gundy put Reid in with 35 seconds left -- just to kneel on the ball. It seemed cruel, and Johnson remembers the OSU fans cat-calling, "Hey Bobby Reid, we don't need you now! Game over!"

Reid took his snap, said nothing and went home. To pack.

"That game was the breaking point for Reid," Rajika says. "He felt totally humiliated. He said, 'I'm not taking this anymore.' ''

Rather than throw his own rant at Gundy, Reid skipped two days of practice. But he didn't want to be a quitter. So he returned, arms folded.
He ended up throwing only 14 passes after the rant, and, when the season ended after an Insight Bowl appearance, Reid grabbed his diploma and loaded his car. At the final team function, he tried sneaking out a side door. But Gundy noticed him and asked him to join an impromptu team photograph. Again, Reid bit his lip and gave a faux smile. It's the same smile he'd been feigning all season, which is why most OSU staffers had no idea he was suffering. He felt he'd been the bigger man ... and he wasn't even 40.

"Being 40 doesn't make you a man," Rajika says, referring to Gundy. "It's your character that makes you a man. Your integrity. That's what makes you a man. Not how old you are. I read a Chinese proverb one time in a restaurant, and it said, 'A fool at 40 is a fool always.' That tells you everything."

 

[fanaticbuckeye]

Screw Tom Friend

 

[OregonBuckeye]

Screw Tom Friend

x2. Tom Friend only writes pieces from the players' point of view.

 

[BB73]

The article does point out one thing about Jenni Carlson's article. The chicken Reid had after the Troy game was from a box that was a postgame meal, and Jenni Carlson wasn't even at that game. Yet she wrote that Reid's Mom "had fed her son chicken" after the game, which was a cheap shot to depict him as a Mama's boy.

But yeah, screw Tom Friend.

 

[shetuck]

x2. Tom Friend only writes pieces from the players' point of view.

Trust the coaches?

 

[Sportsbuck28]

I don't really understand what Reid feels he has to gripe about.

His coach put his reputation and his credibility on the line for him, yet he is hurt by it?

 

[TheIronColonel]

But he didn't really put his credibility on the line, that's the issue. Gundy never claimed Reid was an iron man or outright denied anything in the article. He just lambasted the author for roasting an amateur kid "...that does everything right."

I'm not convinced this isn't a lot of hot air from both sides. Gundy doesn't seem overly trustworthy, but this also smacks of the Maldonado case here in Columbus. Sometimes in coaching transitions kids fall through the cracks, somehow. I don't know why, but it does seem to happen a lot, and coaches seem to get the worst end of the stick from the media (recall that ESPN tried to roast Tressel over Maldonado, too).

 

[wolves2002]

I think what Reid is suggesting is that Gundy or someone on his staff was the source for the original story and the rant was just an act to cover that up.

 

[BUCKYLE]

Fuck Bobby Reid too.

Reid was caught off guard. Here was a coach who'd been burying him and now he was going to war for him? It didn't add up. "At first, everything [Gundy] was saying sounded real and true," Rajika says. "But I'm a believer where there is smoke, there's fire."

It didn't add up? You got fucking benched for being a pussy, and now you're letting Tom Friend kiss your boo-boo.