Slightly less rare than if MetLife Stadium fans would screw up their well-known chant by misspelling J-E-T-S, the Green & White's former linebacker Kenyatta Wright was recruited by Oklahoma State University twice.

Twenty-nine years up apart.

In 1995, Mike Gundy, then an assistant coach on Bob Simmons' staff, recruited Wright, a senior at Vian (OK) High School, to play for the Cowboys. And in 2024, Gundy, now OSU's head coach, recruited Wright to return to the Stillwater, Oklahoma campus and become the football team's Director of Business and Finance.

"I was consulting with and helping out with our NIL [Name, Image, and Likeness] collective for football," Wright said. "And then Coach Gundy called me about coming in house and helping do the contracts for the players, help with some scouti

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