Originally published at: https://pistolsfiringblog.com/the-top-5-quotes-from-mike-gundys-post-baylor-news-conference/
‘I shared with them that they need to do some soul searching.’
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Way to much “They” when talking about the team/players. I expect a bit more ownership and leadership than what I’ve seen from Gundy in any of these post-game pressers.
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“I shared with them that they need to do some soul searching,” Gundy said. “They need to watch the video and look and give themselves an honest opinion of how they played and so we challenged them. I challenged them in doing that, and I told them that I don’t know what time I’ll get back tonight. I might go to work tonight. I don’t know. If not, I’ll be there in the morning. And if they want to come by and talk about it and if there’s anything they want to say about it, about themselves or the team that I’m there, and that’s how I feel about that.”
Don’t bother. Just retire please.
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Hear, hear!
Hey coach how did the team play today?
I won’t know until I watch the tape.
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Re: penalties, perhaps the hardest to understand is 3rd-and-inches at the 2-yard line and we take a delay of game. CLEARLY, that is on the coaching staff. Should Bowman have recognized it? Yes. But the coaching staff always has the assignment to get the TO called before the clock goes to “0.” So, as we are critiquing ourselves, let’s be honest on that one.
More broadly, the lack of effort on defense was alarming. We all saw it, so there is no reason to name names.
No lack of effort from Brennan Presley! What a player! Sure glad and proud he is a Cowboy!!
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It’s time for Chad to make, force, changes to Cowboy football. Gundy can stay or go, but from there down Cowboy football needs a revamp. Clean house Chad! If Gundy won’t, then he needs to step in and force the change. What we are seeing is not Cowboys football.
The offense has issues. But the defense is awful. Worse than awful. The experiment didn’t work. The loss to BYU and Baylor I place squarely on the defense.
Other than a hand full of players on the defense, all I see are defensive players standing around watching, half hearted trying to make a tackle. I really don’t see players who want to be there. How are teams continuously running right through the defensive line and getting into the back field? It’s a problem I see over and over again. When your safeties are consistently making a majority tackles. Something is wrong.
Clean house. Use NIL to get Cowboy football O-Line and D-Line player who are mean and nasty!
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Remember, Gundy stands 50 yards away so can’t rush the official to call a timeout, and assistant coaches can’t call timeouts. So for OSU, its all on the QB or someone else on the field to recognize the clock. Our coaches have abdicated that responsibility.
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To be honest, I’m not sure if assistants can call timeouts or not. The announcer made the comment that an assistant was trying to call timeout and didn’t get it, so maybe that’s true.
However, head coaches run down the field all the time to call timeout so it can and should be done. If Gumby is standing too far away to make that happen, then that’s on Gumby. It’s not as if this was the first time we’ve ever been in that situation and we’ve had the sideline call timeouts previously, so either assistants have called it in the past because the HC can’t bring himself to stand with the team or make it to the official in time, or more likely, Gumby missed it just like Bowman did.
The only thing I want to hear from Mike Gundy is who he’s gonna fire. Anything else is a waste of all our time, and frankly disrespectful at this point.
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The below Gundy quote says it all!!! Having not won a single Big XII game, Gundy turns the focus on the players.
Not once has this man said, “I am responsible and I will address and fix the issues.”
“I’ll be there in the morning, and if they want to come by and talk about it…” Incredible pathetic leadership!!!
“I shared with them that they need to do some soul searching,” Gundy said. “They need to watch the video and look and give themselves an honest opinion of how they played and so we challenged them. I challenged them in doing that, and I told them that I don’t know what time I’ll get back tonight. I might go to work tonight. I don’t know. If not, I’ll be there in the morning. And if they want to come by and talk about it and if there’s anything they want to say about it, about themselves or the team that I’m there, and that’s how I feel about that.”
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I have recently lost faith in Gundy. This team was not prepared to play coming into the season. Despite his success in the past, he seems a different person that is content to milk his contract money. It is low class to not take the blame for the condition of the program because he controls every part of it. No depth? Should have recruited better and developed experienced backups. Lose a good coach? Congrats on having one to lose, now go get another good one. The signs were there two years ago when everyone hit the portal. He can’t recover from this.
Assistants cannot call timeouts. A legal substitute can call timeout (basically a player already on the field) or the head coach (if he’s near an official while at or near the coaching box, although the latter is not enforced). Other players and coaches from the sideline CANNOT call a timeout. Gundy stands too far away to run to the line judge to get the time out thus he has to hope that he can get the attention of one of the officials. The umpire is watching the snap and the line and not the coaches. The ref usually has his back to where Gundy stands (because its so far away). And the Back judge is 20-30 yards from the line of scrimmage in the opposite direction of Gundy, making him 40-60 yards from Gundy and thus not likely to see or hear a time out. There’s a reason that no other head coach in NCAA football stands yards away from the line of scrimmage.
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I sure do miss the “I’m a man, I’m 40” version of Mike Gundy. This “I’m 57, and its the player’s fault” crap is for the birds.
There is some truth to what Gundy is saying at least to my eyes watching the game, especially on D. Also I am not alone in regard to the same observation so the plausibility is there
Then bench players. If a guys not giving effort, sit his ass down, like a real coach does. But the fact is that we couldn’t fill the gaps when the players were giving full effort. And it wasn’t a one game anomaly. 5 different games he’s stated in the postgame, “well we (or they) have to do a better job with their run fits”. After 8 games, if you can see that the players can’t perform, you either change the ask, or change the player. Part of coaching isn’t just teaching kids to do things your way, its adapting your schemes and calls to the abilities of the kids.
But what’s the use at this point. Gundy ain’t making a change in season, even as his peers do (UCF just fired Ted Roof, their DC). Maybe in the offseason he’ll make a change, but I thought that 2 years ago with Dunn and he was maintained. Instead Mason left, and we ended up with a glorified high school coach.
Speaking of Mr. Roof, he’s a terrible DC. He wasn’t good at OU even with talent and an offense. And UCF was almost as bad as we are on defense, hence why they just fired him. But I’d trade Nardo for him straight up right now without blinking.
Based on today’s press conference that seems like an option.
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That’s what I’m saying. Other than a few, I don’t see any will to win, no killer instinct, from the players. If the will to play isn’t there, get them out immediately. Send them to the bench. Go to second, third, fourth line players who are ready to roll. The Hum-ho attitude is toxic and sends the wrong message. Gundy, what happen to “cowboy culture”? It’s not on the field.
If only we could bench some coaches. I can confidently state that they aren’t giving effort.
Again you can’t know if the coaches are giving effort or not, it could just be lack of talent or it could be mostly the players, you just can’t know. Also how will benching them do any good? You think that we have better coaches just hanging around? IMO firing/benching coaches mid season is mostly just a tactic to try and save the HC’s job. It’s a visible gesture to the fans, who 99% of know nothing about coaching football, to show them something is being done when in all reality it probably won’t make things better.