Oklahoma State's Gundy vows he's staying put

Oklahoma State manager Mike Gundy has nary involvement successful this being his last play successful complaint of the Cowboys, helium told reporters successful a property league Monday afternoon.

"100%," Gundy said erstwhile asked if helium intended to stay astatine Oklahoma State beyond the 2025 season.

Gundy addressed what helium called "fair questions" implicit his aboriginal with the Cowboys connected Monday, 3 days aft Oklahoma State fell to 1-2 successful a 19-12 defeat to Tulsa Friday night, which marked the program's archetypal location nonaccomplishment to the Golden Hurricane since 1951. The Cowboys person present dropped 11 of their past 12 games dating to the commencement of the 2024 play with 11 consecutive defeats against FBS opponents, the longest specified streak among Power 4 programs nationally.

Speaking aft the game, Gundy praised the location assemblage of 48,842 for its enactment and emphasized his committedness to improving his squad moving forward. On the 17th day of his infamous "I'm a man, I'm 40" rant, Gundy reiterated that sentiment Monday up of a Week 5 sojourn from Baylor (3:30 PM EST, ESPN 2) to unfastened Big 12 play connected Saturday.

"I'm nether contract, here, for I deliberation three-and-a-half years," Gundy said. "When I was hired present to instrumentality this job, ever since that day, I've enactment my bosom and psyche into this and I volition proceed to bash that until astatine immoderate point, if I accidental I don't privation to bash it oregon if idiosyncratic other says we don't privation you to bash it."

Oklahoma State added much than 60 caller players anterior to the 2024 play pursuing a 3-9 decorativeness and an 0-9 tally done league play a twelvemonth ago. Two weeks aft suffering a 69-3 nonaccomplishment astatine Oregon connected Sept. 6, the Cowboys gave up 11 plays of 15-plus yards, made conscionable 3 trips to the reddish portion and were outgained 424-403 against Tulsa lone six days aft the Golden Hurricane's 19-point nonaccomplishment to Navy successful Week 3.

Gundy said Monday that helium believes the mistakes that person plagued Oklahoma State implicit the archetypal period of the play are "fixable," adding that his "demeanor" and "daily operation" wrong the programme remains unchanged contempt heightened sound astir his occupation information this fall.

"It's astir the squad and astir the organization," said Gundy, present successful his 21st play starring the Cowboys. "That's the mode I spot it. It'll ever beryllium that way. But I emotion what I do. I person the nonstop aforesaid magnitude of vigor that I've had from Day 1 doing this."

Speculation surrounding Gundy's presumption is bubbling arsenic akin questions hover implicit the aboriginal of Oklahoma State diversion manager Chad Weiberg, who has been moving without a declaration since June.

Gundy volition beryllium owed $15 cardinal by the assemblage if the schoolhouse moves to occurrence the 58-year-old manager without origin anterior to the extremity of the 2025 season. As the Cowboys hole to big Baylor connected Saturday, Gundy made his nationalist feelings astir his aboriginal with the programme clear.

"I'll get radical [with] substance messages saying, 'Man, you've done this each this time. You don't request this. You don't request that. What are you doing? Why are you doing this?'" Gundy said. "It is inactive amusive for me."