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Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy offered advice — “jokingly,” he said — for new Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark on Wednesday: Don’t let the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners continue to participate in the league’s business meetings.
Gundy, who has been Oklahoma State coach since 2005, said he’s surprised that the Longhorns and Sooners — who will join the SEC on July 1, 2025, if not earlier — were still involved in Big 12 meetings.
“It’s interesting,” Gundy told reporters shortly after his remarks on stage at Big 12 media days. “We go to conference meetings, and OU and Texas are in there. They’re still in the conference. But I’m guessing when they leave, they’re scratching down things that can help them when they’re in the SEC. So it is an unusual situation. I think there’s a business side of it that nowadays people say, ‘It is what it is.’ Which 10 years ago, they might not even let them in meetings.
“The new commissioner, I mean, honestly if I was him, I wouldn’t let OU and Texas in any meetings.”
Gundy said he was excited about Yormark’s background, calling him an “absolute perfect fit for what college football is today.” He also compared the situation Yormark is inheriting with Texas and Oklahoma to how corporations operate when someone leaves for a competitor.
“I say that jokingly,” Gundy said. “But I mean, if you’re strategically in a business meeting, if it’s two cellphone companies, I don’t want somebody from their company in my company.”
Gundy said in his opening remarks that there doesn’t seem to be a scenario where Oklahoma State and Oklahoma would continue their Bedlam rivalry series in football after the Sooners’ departure from the conference.
“The future of Bedlam is there’s a year or two left,” Gundy said. “I mean that’s the future of Bedlam, based on somebody else’s decision.”
He later told reporters continuing the series isn’t logistically possible with the two schools being in different conferences.
“It’s not really feasible,”…
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