Originally published at: The Top 5 Quotes from Mike Gundy’s Post-BYU News Conference
Hear from the Cowboys’ coach after Friday’s loss.
Man that eye thing healed quickly.
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“If you would’ve come and watched us the last two weeks, you would’ve thought we were 6-0,” Gundy said. “That’s what’s exciting. That tells me that the culture side of it is working. And when you get a number of guys beat up, it can wear on you a little bit mentally as a team, and they’ve overcome all that.”
You didn’t hardly have any guys “beat up” the first five games of the season. So tell me what happened there?
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I wish a media person would have asked: “If the QB run game unlocks Dunn’s offense for you guys, why do you keep recruiting pocket passer QBs?”
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Hey champ,
I guess you could ask a stupid question.
- It worked well enough last year. This was clearly an adjustment, so not necessarily intrinsic to our offense. I think this team needs that, but not necessarily all teams.
- Keep recruiting pocket passers? The previous QB was Spencer Sanders. Rangel and Gundy can both run a bit. I hear Flores can run some. Smith is a pro-style QB, but he was in track and field in high school. Definitely all good enough to keep you honest. So, you just mean Bowman. Well, he wasn’t our first choice and it might have come down to money.
- Money. True dual threat QBs are in high demand.
- Money.
- Money.
- Bowman was able to get some better runs than I thought he could. I was surprised. I don’t think we need Cam Newton.
So, I guess the answer would be… we don’t, most of our QBs are mobile and if we want a real running threat beyond what those guys offer, we are probably going to need to take up a collection.
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We need a mobile qb that can complete 67% of his passes. A line that hold a block 3 to 4 seconds and a DC who can call plays that works with the players strength. Oh and a defense that can at least step in the whole to slow someone down.
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This is the foreseeable future of OSU football, people. A new QB aint gonna fix it. More NIL money aint gonna fix it.
It’s completely obvious what actually needs to change.
He was our first choice until it finally got so ridiculous that Gundy finally pulled him. It was obvious last night that the offense is centered on a dual-threat QB. Not sure if you remember 2022 or not, but our offense was doing fairly well until Sanders got hurt. Hmm….I wonder why? Couple that with OG it takes away from having too much focus on OG. It’s not exactly like Bowman was being real stellar in the passing game since Tulsa 
. Unless you like watching someone throw into double coverage or an interception.
Hey champ,
Man. I know that reading comprehension is real, real hard for you. Bless your heart. I was responding about recruiting. Bowman wasn’t our first choice recruiting from the portal.
Last year, Bowman worked fine and probably was our best option. Aside from the UCF game where he was garbage, he played well enough for us to win. We had no shot in the Texas game even if he’d played at his peak. Let’s not get all revisionist history and act like Bowman wasn’t the answer last year. Maybe Rangel or Gundy playing every game would have improved them enough to be better by season’s end, but we probably don’t win as many games if they start. He actually played well enough for us to beat BYU last night, but the defense let us down most of the game and on the final drive. Sure, if he’d played at his absolute best we might’ve won, but what he gave us shoulda/coulda/woulda been enough.
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Running quarterbacks have a higher rate of
Injury, as we’ve unfortunately just seen. At least they put up a good fight this time.
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Heychamp,
If money was the problem, why is our athletic budget $40M more than BYU’s? $122M vs. $82M. The money excuse flies when comparing us to the blue bloods like OU and Texas, but it’s just moronic noise when you start comparing OSU against the current crop of Big12 schools against whom we are now 0-4.
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Then stick to someone from the bench that’s already better under this specific offense. As AIX has already stated, stop forcing a pocket passing QB to do something he’s not any good at. Bowman wasn’t the main reason we won last season anyway. At least his 50/50 ratio when it comes to touchdowns and interceptions wasn’t .
We don’t really know. Because Gundy doesn’t let another QB play long enough for us to know. That’s the part you seem to miss out on. Remember, Gundy said it takes 15 games, not me. MAYBE next season we can actually teach our QB to check down, and explain why throwing off your back foot can be bad 
. Maybe you didn’t watch the game last night. Anyone on here will tell you the offense looked a lot more efficient under Rangel than it did Bowman.
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Hey champ,
What does athletic budget have to do with NIL and recruiting a QB?
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Weird, you say that money is the difference, yet don’t seem to understand how money comes and goes within the athletic department.
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I disagree a bit. Using non-running QBs as a frequent runner results in more injuries, but I think mobile QBs, who are accustomed to running, learn how to be tackled, how to land, how to slide, better see defensive angles, etc. just like running backs do. Injuries still happen to those players but no more than to RBs or WRs with similar usage rates. But non-running QBs don’t learn those things in High School or lower ball, because they weren’t used in that runner role.
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Hey champ,
I said money is probably why we couldn’t get a better QB in the portal than Bowman. I don’t think you understand how money comes and goes in the athletic department. NIL filtering through the athletics budget would be illegal.
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If you don’t understand that the athletic department and the NIL foundation are interlocked like a hand and glove, then you have zero understanding of the business of today’s athletics.
Ok, you don’t know what you’re talking about, so I’m going to do you the solid of walking away.
I wasn’t going to do this, but OSU has me in a mood, so sorry in advance.
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Last year was different. We changed after the bye to use a gap blocking scheme and started mauling people. It was still an uncreative offense driven by RPOs, but the RPOs were effective because our line fired out and hit people. This year, the RPO game has been integrated with zone blocking schemes. Its really a change to a pass-run option. The O-line treats it as a pass play blocking wise, which gives the linebackers an easy read and no linemen to sift through which allows them to shoot gaps and disrupt the run game. If you have a mobile QB, you can zone block because the zone-read becomes the mechanism to slow the LBs. That’s the real basis of Dunn’s offense.
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Spencer Sanders was recruited in 2018. Since his recruitment, these have been the QBs recruited:
Brendon Castello - #19 Ranked PRO STYLE QB (all rankings per Rivals).
Ethan Bullock - Unranked PRO STYLE QB
Shane Illingsworth - #6 Ranked PRO STYLE QB
Garrett Rangel - #28 PRO STYLE QB
Zane Flores - #21 PRO STYLE QB.
Not 1 “Athlete”. Not 1 “Dual-Threat QB”. If you know your offense runs best with an athlete or dual-threat QB, why not recruit one?
- Somehow it doesn’t stop Texas Tech, Houston, West Virginia, Arizona State, Illinois or SMU from getting a top 15 dual-threat guy. If we can’t compete monetarily with those schools, then we should be firing everyone from the AD down.
4/5) See #3.
- Even Tom Brady ran a time or two. Bowman’s not athletic and doesn’t pose a threat to the defense. Yes, it worked in this game for some gains. But, as shown in the prior game where Dunn called two moronic QB draws (up the middle no less) on back-to-back plays, relying on QB statues (like Bowman) to run it 6-8 times per game is not a viable offensive strategy.
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Bla bla bla gundy turn your keys in