November 13, 2018 · 4:45 PM

“Don’t get me on politics.”

Mike Gundy may have been a man at 40, but at age 52, he just sounds like your average cranky Hannity caller.

Stick to sports, son.

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54 responses to ““Don’t get me on politics.””

  1. Derek
    November 13, 2018 at 4:55 PM

    Are we allowed to playpen this one?

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  2. Debby Balcer
    November 13, 2018 at 4:56 PM

    I had to turn java off to stop the pop ups. They were gone until today. I can’t even read the article with java on and it does not matter how I get here.

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  3. PTC DAWG
    November 13, 2018 at 5:02 PM

    Happy.luckystar.com or some bs taking over the IPad non stop from your site…

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    • Dylan Dreyer's Booty
      November 13, 2018 at 6:27 PM

      That happens if I use Safari. But if you use Firefox, no ‘luckystar’ (which seems to iPad only) and no ads period on any device. I often get a banner saying something like “We depend on ads, please turn your ad blocker off” when I get on the NY Times site, but since I am paying for that site, I don’t.

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  4. ChiliDawg
    November 13, 2018 at 5:15 PM

    Yeah I’m hardly able to navigate the blog right now, I keep getting hammered with redirects to happy.luckystar dot fom.

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  5. wewoof
    November 13, 2018 at 5:27 PM

    WOW ….Senator I had no idea that you listened to Hannity.😉 Would I be painting with too broad a brush if I assumed that was after listening to 3 hours of Rush? Or is painting with too broad a brush only objectionable in only one direction? I believe that Gundy does deal with more of this generation that the rest of us do so consider that a man that makes millions a year might ,just maybe ,possibly know more about this generation than any of us or the Gen Z journalist who wrote a hit piece chalked full of poor analogies and non sequitur. To paraphrase Leslie Gore, It’s his team and he can bitch if he wants to.

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    • 81Dog
      November 13, 2018 at 5:34 PM

      Oh come on, man. Sure a bunch of 18 to 22 year olds know more about life and what it takes to succeed in major college football then some old white guy who only played at a high level for OSU, and has been a successful head coach at said school for over a decade? Twitter is a waste of time? My dude clearly doesn’t get it. He probably doesn’t even play Fortnite! Discipline? Effort? Responsibility? That’s so 1960s, man. THAT’S NOT WHO WE ARE!

      /sarc

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      • ChiliDawg
        November 13, 2018 at 5:51 PM

        Wow.

        Y’all don’t need anyone to stereotype you, you take of that all on your own.

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        • 81Dog
          November 13, 2018 at 7:37 PM

          Maybe the Senator should post a trigger warning for Mike Grundy posts. If you’re already upset, welllllllllll…….QED.

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          • Mike Cooley
            November 13, 2018 at 8:07 PM

            Some old white guy. Upper middle class white people talking about “white people” as if they aren’t part of that group. Very interesting. But stupid.

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      • Senator Blutarsky
        November 13, 2018 at 6:02 PM

        Seriously, how is Gundy’s rant any different than the “when I was your age, I…” bullshit you hear from geezers who want to pretend they led a more virtuous life than the kids they’re sneering at?

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        • Got Cowdog
          November 13, 2018 at 6:23 PM

          Jeez, Bluto. Sounds like you read the comments section here and it’s tainted you somehow. Calling respectable citizens “Geezers”

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        • 81Dog
          November 13, 2018 at 7:45 PM

          Gundy had an opinion about college kids. He deals with them all day every day. While he could be wrong, at least he has a basis for it. If your opinion is different, based on…. Whatever…you’re entitled to it, too. I’m not sure what vague “geezer rants” you want to compare, so I can’t really respond. I thought we were staying on Gundy. I’m sure people outside his program, who don’t deal with young people other than their own kids, are much better informed about college kids at OK State than he is, though. Hopefully, Chile and Derek can enlighten him. I’m sure he’d appreciate their keen, well reasoned insights, which seem to be “Mullet Man BAD!”

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      • Jeff Sanchez
        November 14, 2018 at 6:45 AM

        Gaze with wonder on Gundy’s hypocrisy, running from his Oklahoma committment because he was gonna be stuck behind Holieway.
        As someone in the comments says, anyone who uses “snowlake” unironically is almost guarnteed to be a thin-skinned asshole

        https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2018/11/13/18091726/mike-gundy-snowflake-rant

        Man, what happened? You used to be a hell of a poster on the Dawgosphere. The HOTD is rotting your brain

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        • 81Dog
          November 14, 2018 at 7:33 AM

          Sorry you feel that way. Gundy’s complaint about young people today in general giving up too easily doesn’t mean EVERY young person does, nor does he say that. And I think it’s a reach to say that makes him a hypocrite because when he was 18, he decided to switch his commitment after Holloway led OU to a NC. Troy Aikman left OU, nonody blamed him. He”thought about” quitting HS wrestling, but didn’t because his dad urged him to stick it out. Is that bad? He did quit OSU baseball at the suggestion of the coach who urged him yo “lean into” football. Is that bad? People make decisions, and make changes all the time. Some people learn the hard way, over time, they made bad choices, or they regret giving up.

          The HOTD isn’t rotting my brain. I’m not a parrot, nor do I blindly endorse everything on there. But I can balance more than one thought at a time, too. Gundy may well be a selfish, self interested ass. But it doesn’t make him wrong (or right) about today’s young people. If you hear the word snowflake and tune him out without further thought, you’re just as shallow as you accuse him of being. If you don’t like old school values like toughness or discipline or commitment, if that’s some “cranky old white guy” talk to you, fine by me. To some people of any age, those are still worthwhile things.

          Just because someone is young doesn’t make them wrong or stupid. Same thing with being old. I try not to condescending to the young people I deal with daily, some of whom have really good ideas, and some who don’t. But I’m not interested in them, or anyone else, condescending to me. You have a different pinion about something, or how things should run? Fine by me. Make your best pitch, or not. Just spare me the moral outrage.

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    • Senator Blutarsky
      November 13, 2018 at 5:51 PM

      Who’s stopping him from bitching? If he wants to do his “hey, you kids!” shtick, more power to him. He still sounds like a whiny hypocrite regardless.

      As far as what Gundy knows about this generation, he deals with high school football recruits and players. If you think that’s a representative sampling of Gen Z, maybe you should check the width of your brush.

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    • SpellDawg
      November 13, 2018 at 11:39 PM

      Gundy syndrome by proxy

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  6. Russ
    November 13, 2018 at 5:31 PM

    Gundy was a jerk at 40 and he’s a bigger jerk now. The mullet isn’t ironic.

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  7. Athens Townie
    November 13, 2018 at 5:35 PM

    Funny thing about people tossing around the “snowflake” term is they tend to be snowflakes themselves, insecure and threatened by the world.

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  8. ATL Dawg
    November 13, 2018 at 5:44 PM

    Just another temper tantrum from a middle aged man who makes millions of dollars off the backs of college kids and doesn’t like it when he can’t control them the way he wants.

    Oh, and pay no attention to their job hopping either. That’s for them, not for you.

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  9. Noonan
    November 13, 2018 at 5:44 PM

    Shorter version of this post: “Hey everyone, look! I’m a Democrat! I’m morally superior to alll of the deplorables who watch Sean Hannity!”

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    • Senator Blutarsky
      November 13, 2018 at 5:48 PM

      I’m not a Democrat.

      You don’t think cranky folks call Hannity? Hell, I rarely listen, but it’s not hard to hear ’em.

      Sounds like you’re pumping your own version of moral superiority there, friend.

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  10. HiAltDawg
    November 13, 2018 at 6:02 PM

    I know several members of that generation who serve our country. A selfish/boorish part of me wishes Coach Gundy would call them “Snowflakes” because the ensuing ass beating would be hilarious.

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  11. Charlottedawg
    November 13, 2018 at 6:04 PM

    This is no different than corporate bosses who bitch and moan about how hard it is to recruit talent and why employees aren’t more loyal. These are almost always the same types of management who would fire their mom to preserve their bonus, pay below market wages, can’t recognize their firm is at best 3rd tier in terms of brand name recognition on a resume, and of course wouldn’t think twice about jumping ship themselves in order to better their situation.

    The hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance required to bemoan other people looking out for their best interests because it inconveniences you is ever present and always rich.

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  12. ASEF
    November 13, 2018 at 6:09 PM

    So, Gundy did just about everything as a player that he whines about in the article and accepts transfers if they’re coming his way.

    He’s spent so many years dishing empty platitudes to his players that he actually believes he embodies those platitudes. Lol, Mullet Boy.

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  13. Mike Cooley
    November 13, 2018 at 8:11 PM

    I swear. Some of you guys kill me with the rebellious teenager act. It looks stupid when you’re a teenager. It looks full blown retarded when you’re a middle aged man. No young person anywhere thinks any of you hipster dufus clowns are cool. No matter how much you have deluded yourselves into thinking you can relate to them.

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  14. Macallanlover
    November 13, 2018 at 10:54 PM

    The broad brush approach, placed under any degree of light, will always make someone look stupid, regardless of which direction it comes from. The above comments illustrate the point perfectly.

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  15. S
    November 13, 2018 at 10:56 PM

    About the only way he could be more hypocritical would be to criticize his players’ hair.

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  16. monticellodawg
    November 14, 2018 at 7:18 AM

    I think the coach speaks quite a bit of truth in his so called rant. Good for him.

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  17. Twistification
    November 14, 2018 at 7:19 AM

    With this ‘old geezer’ and ‘blissfully unaware of his underlying self interest’ talk, I think we are missing the point here. Obviously the point of discussion needs to be Gundy’s party in the back. I mean, I haven’t seen anyone rock a mullet so hard in years. He is rockin it so SO hard.

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  18. Butler T. Reynolds
    November 14, 2018 at 7:44 AM

    “Stick to sports, son.”

    That’s good advice for absolutely everyone.

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  19. HightowerDawg
    November 14, 2018 at 8:43 AM

    Tell that to Olberman and EVERY one of those fools on ESPN too Bro.

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  20. Mick Jagger
    November 14, 2018 at 9:03 AM

    Actually, I agreed with a lot of what he said – scary! LOL

    Oh yeah, I’m that old, middle-class white guy. Not that there’s anything wrong with that ……

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