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Mike Gundy, the Oklahoma State football coach who faced a strong backlash last month after being spotted wearing an OAN shirt, has greed to accept a $1 million pay cut and a one-year reduction in contract length. “The changes were offered up by Mike Gundy, and I commend him for that. It was his idea to take a million-dollar pay cut,” Oklahoma State Athletic Director Mike Holder said on Friday. “I think it really demonstrates his commitment to being a better coach. He wanted to make a statement that assured all the players that this wasn’t just about talk, this...

After a picture of Mike Gundy wearing a One America News shirt circulated and drew backlash from members of the Oklahoma State football team, the Cowboys head coach apologized to current players, former players and players' families Tuesday. Gundy said of a meeting with the team: "They helped me see through their eyes how the T-shirt affected their hearts. Once I learned how that network felt about Black Lives Matter, I was disgusted and knew it was completely unacceptable to me." He also said the meetings with his team have been "eye-opening."

Mike Gundy is the sniffling, whiny face of the Oklahoma State football program. His intellectually inept diatribe against a Daily Oklahoman columnist is wrong on so many levels that you wonder whether he is mentally fit to be a coach. Here is the thing: Gundy could be correct in his assessment that three-fourths of the facts in Jenni Carlson's column were inaccurate. And Gundy clearly felt compelled to defend the quarterback who was the object of Carlson's story. But you do not go about it in the unhinged manner that he did. You do not refer to the 21-year-old quarterback...

Coach Gundy is upset after the win over Texas Tech. The only comments after the game are about what was in a newspaper about one of his quaterbacks.