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Following a disheartening loss in a second-rate bowl recreation after a disappointing season, Oklahoma State head soccer coach Mike Gundy appeared to take out his frustrations on an area reporter for asking a fundamental query throughout the post-game press convention.
“Don’t be an ass,” Gundy fumed at one level.
After a stellar 12-2 season in 2021 and a promising 6-1 begin to this yr, Gundy’s squad completed 2022 on a 1-5 skid, ending with a 24-17 loss to the Wisconsin Badgers within the Assured Charge Bowl on Tuesday evening.
Oklahoma State’s remaining defeat was particularly irritating because the Cowboys pulled inside a landing late within the recreation, just for freshman quarterback Garret Rangel to toss an interception with three minutes remaining. Rangel solely drew the beginning as a result of Spencer Sanders, the workforce’s beginning QB for the previous 4 seasons, entered the switch portal.
Chatting with the press after the sport, Gundy was requested by reporter Marshall Scott whether or not he anticipated making any employees adjustments after the season following the subpar season and bowl loss. Not solely was Gundy not pleased with the query, however he threatened to chop off entry to Scott sooner or later for merely asking it.
“Do you assume I might let you know if I used to be making employees adjustments?” Gundy grumbled, prompting Scott to say no. “Then why would you ask?!”
When the reporter famous that it was his job to ask such questions, the longtime Cowboys coach retorted: “I may need to chop you out. Don’t be an ass!”
Gundy then recommended that Scott was disrupting the lives of his coaches’ households along with his question earlier than questioning the native journalist’s intelligence.
“These are individuals’s lives, man. These are individuals’s households,” Gundy groused. “Don’t mess with individuals’s households. Let’s do that the suitable approach. That’s not honest to individuals’s households. I’m not mad in regards to the recreation. I simply don’t like ignorance.”
And with that, the coach stood up and walked out of the press convention.
Scott, for his half, took to Twitter on Wednesday to difficulty an announcement on the trade. Whereas saying he hopes Gundy “understands I used to be simply making an attempt to do my job in asking the query,” the reporter added his personal takeaways from the interplay.
“I’ve had time to replicate on the change, and, whereas I feel it was a good query, I'm wondering if it was the right time or place,” he wrote. “That’s one thing I have to ponder extra about. I’ll proceed to study via this.”
Gundy’s tenure with Oklahoma State has been marked with controversies and run-ins with the press. He had an notorious face-off with The Oklahoman reporter Jenni Carlson in 2007, as an illustration. Condemning an article Carlson wrote in regards to the workforce’s quarterback on the time, Gundy accused her of personally attacking the participant earlier than shouting: “Come after me! I am a person! I am forty!”
Moreover, Gundy confronted criticism from his personal gamers in 2020 when he was noticed carrying a t-shirt supporting the far-right conspiratorial cable channel One America Information, ensuing within the coach vowing to make “some adjustments” after the workforce’s working again threatened to boycott workforce actions.