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Not-So-Diplomatic Immunity?
Published: 10/9/2007 11:01 PM
Last Modified: 10/9/2007 11:01 PM

In a roundabout sort of way, Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy may have purchased himself a bit of immunity with his "I'm 40. Come after me" monologue a couple of weeks ago.
It may have sounded like Gundy was opening the door for critics to pile on, but now anyone who does so will be accused of holding a grudge against the coach just because he vocally pepper-sprayed someone in the media.
It's almost like you have to be more than fair to him just to show that you can be fair.
That said, I agree with Gundy that it was the right thing to do to kick a field goal on a 4th-and-7 play in the fourth quarter of a game at Texas A&M. The Cowboys would have gotten the ball back with a chance to win if not for a kid who got a little too ambitious while trying to block a punt.




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C SQUARED (5 years ago)
Gundy lost that game is the closing minutes of first half when he went for 3 insted of seven, poor choice when he had steamrolled the aggies for 2 quarters.I am a dyed in the skin OSU fan but gundy or who ever is making those dumb ass calls can hit the road!!!!!!
Doug F. - Meridian (5 years ago)
Ok, let's not go blaming a kid for trying to make a play at the end of the game. OSU lost the game way before that play ever happened as C Squared stated. Put up 7 vice 3 before the half ends and then it becomes more of task for A & M to come back, but trust me any team that gets down to the Cowboys knows all to well that they can still win the game whether it is 10, 17, or even 35. I still don't understand the logic if your plan is to stop A & M and get the ball back in the closing minutes then wouldn't it be best to have 2 chances at a TD with athletes like Bowman, Pettigrew, Savage, Reid, Bryant, Hunter. Even if we don't make the TD on the 4th down with those athletes and a stop by our defense I would have rather taken our chances on the road in such a big game. I mean really how often does OSU get the chance to take the lead in the Big 12 south race. The decision to kick the field goal would have been genius if it had worked out, but it didn't and what Gundy showed is that he does not believe in those athletes on the offensive side of the ball to get the job done. Heck Jim Harbaugh (with lesser athletes) went for the jugular at USC and looky what happened there. No faith for a team that needs some. Regardless OSU should have never been in that position up 17 points at the half and you get beat. While we were making field goals and taking our offense off the field with stupid penalties A & M was quietly making TD's, looks and sounds to me like we have a serious coaching issue. I wish we didn't but we do.
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Tulsa World sports writer Jimmie Tramel is a former class president at Locust Grove High School. He graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern State University with a journalism degree and, while attending college, was sports editor of the Pryor Daily Times. He joined the Tulsa World on Oct. 17, 1989, the same day an earthquake struck the World Series. He is the OSU basketball beat writer and a columnist and feature writer during football season. In 2007, he wrote a book about Oklahoma State football with former Cowboy coach Pat Jones.

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