Mike Gundy
Mike Gundy
Mike Gundyis an American football coach and former player. He is currently the head football coach at Oklahoma State University–Stillwater. Gundy played college football at Oklahoma State, where he played quarterback from 1986 to 1989. He became Oklahoma State's coach on January 3, 2005. In 2007, he received national media attention for his heated criticism of a newspaper article on one of his players...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth12 August 1967
CityMidwest City, OK
game momentum turn
I've never been in a game with as big of a momentum turn as that. I've never been in a game like that.
chance good trying
I know what I'm saying, but I'm not trying to play the thing up. I still say when you have a quarterback who's a good player, you've got a chance in every game.
chance game
If you have a quarterback that potentially could be drafted, you've got a chance in every game you're in. That's just the way it is.
except game hold push tempo
We had the same scheme, everything the same except we didn't hold or push in the back. It set the game up, set the tempo for us.
headway took until
We were making headway until he took over.
atmosphere block coached mature simple worry
We think that we've got it simple enough to where they're comfortable that they can go out there and perform. They have to be mature enough to block out the gameday atmosphere and not worry about where they're at and go out there and do what they've been coached to do.
aggressive attitude developing fly force season
We are developing an attitude on defense. We want to be aggressive and we want to fly around. We want to force turnovers. We want to take it to the other team. As the season progresses, we will find out where we are. I like the attitude.
figure smart sure
There is no deadline. He's a smart guy. I'm sure he'll figure it out.
deserves game guy start
We feel like he deserves to start the game with what he's done up to this point, and the other guy deserves to play in the game.
both clear
The one thing that we didn't want -- and we made it very clear to both quarterbacks -- is that we didn't want them to play scared,
both clear
The one thing that we didn't want and we made it very clear to both quarterbacks is that we didn't want them to play scared,
knew mistakes wrong
We knew they were going to make mistakes. We knew they were going to make big plays. We didn't want them to think if they did something wrong they weren't going to get back in forever.
coaches decisions full lots speed
We have to find out what he can do if we give him lots of reps, ... That's where we as coaches have to make decisions and we go with them and go full speed ahead.
bobby couple decision earned gotten last point position potential reason
The decision we had to come down to is who has more potential at that position from this point on? We think that it's Bobby, ... The reason we didn't make the decision in two-a-days is because Bobby hadn't earned it. In the last couple weeks, he's really gotten a lot better a lot better.