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Mike Gundy: NCAA needs to ban coaching changes until after bowl games
Published: 12/14/2012 8:41 PM
Last Modified: 12/14/2012 11:32 PM

During a Friday press function to talk about Oklahoma State’s pending date against Purdue in the Heart of Dallas Bowl, coach Mike Gundy challenged the NCAA to “step in” and do something to restrict job movement prior to bowl games.

OSU will be without offensive Todd Monken in the bowl. Monken was hired as head coach at Southern Miss.

Purdue will be without head coach Danny Hope, who was fired at the end of a 6-6 regular season.

“I am not a big fan of what is happening right now in college football with job changes,” Gundy said, pleading for stability.

“I think it is unfair. I think that because of the way the trend is going, it’s not right for the players. Just go down the list of the bowl games and look at the teams playing in bowl games that don’t have coaches. Is that really the right thing to do? That’s where the NCAA needs to step in. Schools are letting coaches go earlier now because of pressure from a fan base, an alumni base, to say we need to make a change. We need to get somebody in here right now. We need to start recruiting right now. It creates a domino effect across the country. At some point, somebody is going to have to put a limit on it and stop it or ultimately we are cheating the players.”

Gundy has lost four coordinators (three on offense, one on defense) to head coaching positions. He doesn’t fault any of them for bolting and he doesn’t blame any coach at other schools for making a move. Last week, Gundy was romanced for head coaching positions at Arkansas and Tennessee because those schools jettisoned their coaches. He wonders why the college football universe can’t wait until bowl season is over to start the coaching carousel turning.

“The system right now is not working the way it is and the NCAA needs to get a handle on it,” he said. “They are going to have to stop it or what’s the value of the bowl games?”

Gundy pointed out that two teams (Wisconsin, Northern Illinois) in BCS bowl games will be without their head coaches.

“You got two teams that have busted their butt and they are in a BCS bowl and they don’t have their coaches,” he said. “So what’s the answer to that? The answer is coaches can’t get hired until the season is finished.”

If the people who hire and fire could keep everything intact through postseason games, then everybody would be “even,” according to Gundy.

“I just don’t like the way the system is going right now because ultimately this is supposed to be for the players,” he said. “And right now it’s not.”


Reader Comments 7 Total
justme (2 months ago)
Florida State still has their coach. It's their opponent, Northern Illinois, who does not.
z1590 (2 months ago)
Don't forget OU. When Arizona yanked Mike Stoops from the program. What happened? 11-0 OU loses to K-State in the Big 12 title game and then lose to LSU in the BCS title game! Had Arizona waited until AFTER bowl season, OU could have been 13-0
                    
Razor1911 (2 months ago)
Had OU lost its OC that season, we still would have won the Sugar Bowl and the National Title that season. Chuck Long almost singlehandedly blew that game.

The Big XII CCG was another matter altogether. Darren Sproles gashed the D that night.
Razor1911 (2 months ago)
Gundy needs to quit whining. Coaches are hired early because of recruiting. If he doesn't want to lose coaches, just go back to having 2-9, 3-8 seasons; no one would want to pilfer his coaching staff then.
JCD1978 (2 months ago)
The players have not been much of an NCAA concern for some time now. The recruiting schedule needs to change and then the coaching changes could be made without impacting recruits too significantly.
Razor1911 (2 months ago)
High irony considering that he interviewed for two jobs that were inquiring. If he were a man of his word, he would have refused the interviews and publicly denounced at the time how "inappropriate" they were.
Inquisitive Mind (2 months ago)
What a ridiculous idea. One benefit for a program that is not going to a bowl game (and possibly seeking or having just hired a new coach) is more freedom to recruit while the more successful coaches are preparing for a bowl game. Unfortunately, college football has become so much a "big business" now, there are fewer coaches who hold to ideals of loyalty to a school that gave them a chance to coach.
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