Could extra modifications be coming at Oklahoma State?
The faculty’s board of regents met Friday morning and is reportedly in a “standoff” with coach Mike Gundy, in line with ESPN.
Sources: Mike Gundy is in a standoff with Oklahoma State. He’s telling folks they’ve come to him and requested him to take a restructured contract, which is anticipated to incorporate a pay reduce. But they’ve but to supply him with any particulars. pic.twitter.com/rCXlHRQ29b
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) December 6, 2024
Oklahoma State went 3-9 in 2024. It was the worst season of Gundy’s 20-year tenure. After the board assembly on Friday, chair Jimmy Harrel mentioned “we have now a plan.” The board was in government session on Friday for “data related to the employment of Oklahoma State University soccer workers.”
According to a number of stories, Oklahoma State is ready to supply a restructured contract for Gundy. Per ESPN, Gundy might be fired for trigger if he doesn’t settle for the deal.
Per USA Today’s wage database, Gundy is the Seventeenth-highest paid coach in faculty soccer on an annual foundation with a complete compensation of over $7.7 million. His buyout is simply over $25.3 million. If he was fired for trigger, Oklahoma State can contend that Gundy isn’t owed any of the buyout.
Oklahoma State just lately fired each its offensive and defensive coordinators after the dismal season. Oklahoma State’s offense was affected by turnovers and the protection allowed practically seven yards a play and 36 factors per sport.
The porous season got here only a yr after the Cowboys performed Texas for the Big 12 title and went 10-4. Oklahoma State opened the season as a favourite within the Big 12, however went 0-9 in Big 12 play. RB Ollie Gordon rushed for over 850 yards fewer in 2024 than he did in 2023, when he completed seventh within the Heisman voting.
Gundy additionally did not do himself any favors when he needed to apologize “to those that my feedback throughout Monday’s media name offended” for November feedback about fan criticism. As OSU was 0-6 within the Big 12, Gundy mentioned that “most individuals are weak” when issues aren’t going nicely and even went so far as to say “normally, the people who find themselves destructive and voicing their opinion are the identical ones that may’t pay their very own payments.”
Oklahoma State had gone to 18 straight bowl video games underneath Gundy in a streak that dated again to his second season. The three wins the college posted have been the fewest since a 3-8 season in 2000.
