Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy on Wednesday “jokingly” advised new Big 12 commissioner Brett Yourmark: Don’t let the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners attend the league business meeting.
Gundi, who has been Oklahoma State coach since 2005, said he was surprised that the Longhorns and Sooners – who will join the SEC on July 1, 2025 – if not earlier – would still attend the Big 12 meeting.
“It’s interesting,” Gundi told reporters shortly after his comment on the Big 12 Media Day stage. “We go to conference meetings and OU and Texas are there. They are still in the conference. But I’m guessing that while they’re gone, they’re scratching things that can help them while they’re at the SEC. , So this is an unusual situation. “I think there’s a business side to it that people say, ‘It happened.’
“The new commissioner, I mean, honestly, if I were him, I wouldn’t have allowed OU and Texas to attend any meetings.”
The goon said he’s excited about Yormark’s background and called it “the perfect fit for college football today.” Yourmark compares the legacy situation of Texas and Oklahoma in terms of how corporations operate when they go out to compete.
“I’m kidding,” said the goon. “But I mean, if you’re strategically in a business meeting, if they’re both cell phone companies, I don’t think anyone in their company should be in my business.”
The situation in the state of Oklahoma does not look like Bedlam rivals and Oklahoma football will continue the series after Sun leaves the conference, Goon said in his opening remarks.
“Bedlam’s future is a year or two away,” Gundi said. “I mean, this Bedlam’s future is based on someone else’s decision.”
He later told reporters that it was not logically possible to continue the series as the two schools were in different conventions.
“It’s not really possible,” Gundi said. “We ’32? ‘ Many conferences, once it’s all over, I think you have at least nine conference games, so you’re talking about buying a contract and you’re persuading the head coach to play another game. Talking about doing, playing another conference game. There’s been a lot going on. I think most fans would love to do it. I don’t think it’s possible. “
Gundi laughed when he compared the convention’s reorganization to The Carpenters’ 1970 hit “We Have Only Just Began” and thought of a reorganization when he heard the song recently.
Gundy said it is not known whether Texas or Oklahoma will remain on the council until their powers expire in 2025, but it is better to leave early if they want to repay the Big 12.
“If they go early and they put $ 80 million in our way, I think that’s pretty good,” Gundy said.