Billboards, motivational tactics -- and pumpkins?
Published: 12/28/2010 5:46 PM
Last Modified: 12/28/2010 5:46 PM
Arizona self-promoted its football program by putting up “Texas is Wildcat Country” billboards in the San Antonio area.
No slight of Alamo Bowl opponent Oklahoma State was intended. Moreso, the Wildcats are trying to keep a Texas recruiting pipeline pumping.
Will OSU coach Mike Gundy reference the billboards when preparing his players for the game?
“I have never been big on that type of motivation,” Gundy said while appearing at a Tuesday press conference alongside Arizona coach Mike Stoops.
“I still think that it is based on your preparation and the pride you take in going out and playing the game and competing. I just don’t know that going in a meeting and saying that there is a billboard out there that says ‘this is Cat Country’ and you guys need to play hard today is just not going to do much for the team. And that’s not any disrespect to the billboard. I kind of like the billboard, to be honest with you. It’s a good-looking billboard.”
It was at this moment when Stoops interjected this: “All I’m looking at is a bunch of pumpkins out there. That’s all I see is these Oklahoma State people. We’re outnumbered.”
--Jimmie Tramel.
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Jimmie Tramel
Sports Writer
