This is a silly question. Like asking, "Is there something wrong with a team's offense? Could they do better?" and then when the person says, "Yes, they could probably do better based on these numbers," asking them to create a playbook and submit it.
Nobody on this forum knows how to recruit. We aren't college football recruiters. How you literally bring in better talent on the micro level, isn't something anybody on this form can answer.
But I don't think you need to be able to actually know how to solve an issue on a micro or macro level, to be able to recognize that there is perhaps an issue.
Could OSU's recruiting be better? Absolutely. Should Gundy take actions to make it better? I'm not sure why a coach would ever not want to do what he can to improve. How can Gundy improve his recruiting? That's probably not something any Pitt fan or anybody east of the Mississippi could answer. Should the AD force Gundy to improve his recruiting even if it could be improved? Probably not.
Right, it is an exceedingly silly debate and has been from the very start. That’s been my point from the beginning of this discussion.
The Oklahoma State athletic director did something very stupid and it’s going to hurt that program. He probably did it for self-preservation reasons, but it was still an incredibly dumb idea to publicly question the talents of both his coach and his current players.
For some reason, some on here felt the need to defend that imbecile. That’s fine with me, people defend craziness all the time on here. However, that doesn’t make his actions any less moronic or his points any more salient.
I am sure that Mike Gundy would like to get the best possible players at every position on the field and that he works really, really hard at doing just that every single day. However, at the end of the day, you have to play with the cards you’re dealt and Stillwater, Oklahoma is simply not the same as Norman, Oklahoma and it is certainly not the same as Austin, Texas. That’s been true for the past 100 years and it will be true for the next 100 years too.
The shame of it all is that all of this is because they are not beating Oklahoma with even a modicum of consistency. Well, who is consistently beating Oklahoma? Nobody, that’s who. That’s what makes this entire discussion so absurd.
By publicly shitting on his head football coach and his current players, who happen to be in the midst of probably the greatest run of success in the history of OSU Cowboys football, all the athletic director really accomplished was weakening his relationship with the most successful coach in the program’s long history and the program itself for his own political gain.
That’s completely insane, IMHO. Again though, others are free to view it through whichever lens they choose to view it. However, my opinion is not changing because I’ve seen this film many times before and I know how it always ends...not well.
The bottom line is you hire a coach to win football games and not embarrass the program off the field. That’s why he’s hired. Gundy has clearly accomplished both of those things beyond all reasonable expectations and better than anyone else in that program’s history. And yet, because they are not beating a team that nobody else is beating either, the A.D. felt the need to publicly defecate on him. I’m sorry but that’s just not reasonable and there is no was to defend it without also coming across as being completely unreasonable.
You can play silly debating games, you can obfuscate, you can recriminate, you can do whatever you like. However, none of that changes the fact that actual results will always mean more than predicted outcomes, period.
