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Mike Gundy is protecting our children

Posted by HenryJames on September 23rd, 2007 under Football

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Someone secretly replaced the coffee that Mike Gundy normally drinks with new Folger’s Crazy. He spent his post game press conference yesterday berating a reporter about a column she wrote before leaving the room without even talking about the game. Now Big 12 coaches are allowed one press conference meltdown a year (two if you’re Dan Hawkins), but they usually save it for after a loss.

The offending article is pretty bad. It pretty much calls OSU quarterback Bobby Reid a momma’s boy who won’t play hurt, threatens to transfer whenever he has to compete for his position and can’t eat chicken without his mother’s help.

And so how does Gundy answer such an article? By pretty much calling Reid a momma’s boy.

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height=Kudos to Gundy for beginning the press conference by actually holding up the article in question. After last week’s loss to Troy State, he held up a copy of the Chicago Daily Tribune with a headline that read ‘Gundy Defeats Troy.’

There were so many great lines.

“This was brought to me by a mother…” A mother of what, Mike? “…of children!”

“This article embarrasses me to be involved in athletics tremendously.” That line sounds better in the original Japanese.

“That’s why I don’t read the newspaper.” Yet he has many leather-bound books, and his apartment smells of rich mahogany.

“Come after me. I’m a man! I’m 40!” That’s way past 21.

Reporter
I’m a hoochie coochie man

Fade out to uncomfortable looking reporter.

Scene.

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  1. Scipio Tex said:

    September 23rd, 2007 at 3:42 pm

    Wow. Awesomely entertaining.

  2. SizzleChest said:

    September 23rd, 2007 at 6:31 pm

    Of all the Gundy’s, he’s the one I always suspected would 1) snap in front of the media or 2) bring false hope to all of the other Gundy’s.

  3. Squirrel said:

    September 24th, 2007 at 3:58 am

    It was a shame for him to waste the post-game press conference on this shit (about one kid) rather than the awesome victory (and the accomplishment of the team) – address the newspaper another time, dum dum.

  4. Scipio Tex said:

    September 24th, 2007 at 8:52 am

    When he rants about a little kid being called fat, I just lose it. It’s so damn funny.

  5. mileslong said:

    September 24th, 2007 at 10:18 am

    LOL, “it ain’t true!” well dad gummitt! really? your going to go off like that then throw out the “ain’t” in the middle of it. you stupid ass redneck jesus.

    what he needs to realize is that the reporter wasn’t ripping the little kid at QB for doing the right thing, she was ripping him for doing the wrong thing, not playing well (ie. sucking.

    how dare he say these aren’t (ie. ain’t) professional athletes, hasn’t he ever heard of rhett bomar? the most embarasing part of that was when he held of the sports page that he doesn’t read and let the “arts and crafts” section of the paper fall on the floor. i awear on my life that if i had been there when he walked out i would have said “hey, you left part of the paper on the ground” just so he could scream at me “well then you pick it up dad gummmitt! i ain’t doin’ it!”

    alos, when he was screaming at me and said that “i obviously never had a child!” i would have answered, “i did but they died”…

  6. I am McLovin' said:

    September 24th, 2007 at 3:03 pm

    Jenni Carlson is an absolute bull-dyke worthless reporter. Seriously, to write for the Daily Joklahoman you have to suck. You get rejected from every paper other than the Little Rock paper(and who wants to live there?) so you take her job in okc. Anyway, she’s worthless and has no business in the sports world.

  7. Gary said:

    September 24th, 2007 at 7:09 pm

    As a Sooner fan who was at the OSU – Tech game, I cannot believe what Gundy did. That was one incredible win and one desperately needed by the Cowboys. To ignore that game with such a narrowly focused, stupid, embarrassing, immature, (insert any other word here), rant was incredibly stupid. It was just horrible, especially after such a great win. You’re story on this was really funny.

  8. McLovin said:

    September 24th, 2007 at 11:02 pm

    You live in Stillwater and see if it doesn’t make you a little crazy.

  9. 62 to 36 said:

    September 25th, 2007 at 7:26 am

    someone here likes Mark Kiszla

  10. Lowery said:

    September 25th, 2007 at 9:00 am

    That was great, nicely set off by the slow clap at the end.

    Hysterical.

  11. Nordberg said:

    September 25th, 2007 at 11:46 am

    “Come after me. I’m a man! I’m 40!”

    He sounds exactly like Ricky Bobby here.

  12. Scipio Tex said:

    September 25th, 2007 at 12:22 pm

    It is amusing to me how the fourth estate rallies around itself when you dare to shine the spotlight on them a little. There are a bunch of journos rallying around her right now.

  13. Vasherized said:

    September 25th, 2007 at 12:53 pm

    No kidding. From reading Dennis Dodd’s article on sportsline yesterday about this funny little debacle, you’d think he was a Rider of Rohan rallying neighboring tribes to save Helm’s Deep.

    “Gundy shall fall at first light on the seventh day when the chicken bone moon appears in the Stillwater sky!”

  14. de1916 said:

    September 25th, 2007 at 8:26 pm

    Scipio, it’s one thing to shine a light on the 4th Estate. It’s another to come off as the reincarnation from Sam Kinison in Back to School.

  15. Lazlo Holyfeld said:

    September 26th, 2007 at 6:10 am

    I would pay real money for Cleve Bryant to go after Suzanne Halliburton like this.

  16. mitch's mom said:

    September 27th, 2007 at 7:27 am

    “a mother gave this to me. a mother of children”

  17. mileslong said:

    September 27th, 2007 at 10:27 am

    exactly when do these “student” athletes quit being children and then become available to critique?

    since most of them are old enough to drink, vote and go to war and die for their country i would think that some mild criticism of their playing ability wouldn’t be that big of a deal. i wonder if these children who go off to the marines instead of college ever get critiqued by marine drill sergeants, don’t those mean guys realize that these are just little children?

    i would think that it would hurt these little children’s feelings worse if they were told they were something like our favorite gunnery sergeant might have told them, that they were unorganized grabastic pieces of amphibian shit, rather than just inferring they were a bit soft.

    so when do they become available for criticism? is it when they go to pro mini camps? when they sign an agent? when they cash their first check? is it the minute they get drafted? i wish gundy would let everyone know so they can follow his rules.

    in his thought process, which is apparently the same as a rhesus monkey, these players are children and can’t take criticism say on january 1st but then are adults and old enough to take it on january 2nd? brilliant. the only thing gundy didn’t do is to take his feces and throw it at the reporters.

    someone needs to remind this primate that these are division 1, big time college football athletes who play before hundreds of thousands of people as well on national television. these aren’t 8 year olds playing in little league.

    well, end of rant, im off to go visit other threads and critique some other college athletes, i mean children…

  18. Doperbo said:

    September 27th, 2007 at 1:23 pm

    You’re not a man ’til you’re 40.

    Pay attention.

  19. Facebook User said:

    October 4th, 2007 at 10:42 am

    Beer

    Beer II

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