“This wasn’t about pride. It was about survival,” stated a source close to the Oklahoma State athletic department. And when you have a $15 million buyout on the table, Mike Gundy’s firing makes it clear that the team was in crisis. Had Oklahoma State fired him after January 1st, 2028, his buyout would have dropped to $10 million. See the urgency? But one person who’s paying for the cardinal sin is Doug Meacham.

Oklahoma State’s patience ran thin with Gundy. But how they wish they could whitewash all his wrongdoings, along with getting rid of Gundy. The biggest is his recruiting mishaps, the cost that interim head coach Doug Meacham will now pay off.

On October 10, On3’s Oklahoma insider Parker Thune tweeted, “This is genuinely as low as I have seen a P4 program (at least one not na

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