If you haven’t heard Mike Gundy’s reaction to this article on NewsOK.com, here it is:
I’m glad he said this for several reasons. Not only is he right in what he says, but he has helped to expose certain media members as a group of rank-and-file whiners. If you need an example, check out what Dennis Dodd of CBS Sportsline had to say:
Mike Gundy needs to be reprimanded, definitely suspended, probably fined and maybe fired.
Okie State’s third-year coach verbally attacked a woman, a journalist and degraded his profession after Saturday’s win over Texas Tech. Jenni Carlson, a columnist for the Daily Oklahoman, wrote a fair and balanced column Saturday regarding quarterback Bobby Reid. Typical of his coaching style, Gundy had replaced Reid as starter before the Sept. 13 game against Troy without explanation. As is her job in that situation, Carlson tried to explain why Reid lost his job in her column.
Try reading it and then tell me what is unfair, or personal.
Is it the job of a journalist to call a player a momma’s boy when he has had ZERO public outbursts of any kind? It is the job of a journalist to accuse him of being a panicked sissy? It was nothing more than a smear campaign Mr. Dodd! Please, I ask you to explain to me how a journalist should make the statements in that article with no back up whatsoever. And please, do not give me that “Gundy closed off the media!” garbage you tried to feed us in this article, that is no excuse for what is nothing more than cheap tabloid journalism.
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