Obviously a total long-shot, but just for the sake of argument...what would the temperature of the board be if Gundy wanted to come here? It's well publicized that he doesn't have a great relationship with the powers that be at XSU and he just went to 2-14 in Bedlam. This is after the offseason drama where he, essentially, had to pay a $1MM fine to the school in order to keep his job.
Was reading some of his comments in his press conference yesterday and got me thinking about it:
Was reading some of his comments in his press conference yesterday and got me thinking about it:
“I have not ever never woke up and said, ‘Do I really want to do this?’” Gundy said. “I have woke up sometimes and said, ‘This is getting hard.’ And then I have to sit and think what my options are, based on the situation that’s been presented to me. When I go to practice or have a team meeting, there’s gonna be 120 people staring at me, and there’s probably 118 of ‘em that want an answer.
“I can’t stay at home, I can’t retire, and I can’t not do anything. I don’t know if I’m any good at being a coach, but I’m probably not any good at doing anything else. I’m not good at farming. I lose money farming.
“This is what I do, this is how I do it, this is what I enjoy doing. And I’ll be honest, I like having my back against the wall. I enjoy that.”
“I like what I do. I like the young people. I like the coaches. I like our staff,” he said. “At some point, maybe the people around here will think, ‘Hey, somebody can do a hell of a lot better job at Oklahoma State than Coach Gundy,’ and they’ll probably can me. And I’ll go off and coach junior high football or something. “But as far as me saying that it’s burned me out, I’m really a long ways from being burned out.”
So I guess my question is...if your preferred guy right now is Briles, or McGuire, or Wells, or whoever...would you take Gundy over that guy right now given the choice?
