Ian Rapoport Shockingly Gets Into The Mud Against Uber-Controlling Oklahoma State Coach Mike Gundy
After Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy announced Monday at his weekly press conference that senior receiver Jalen McCleskey has chosen to redshirt and transfer, the biggest news in Stillwater was simple: What did OSU football players think about the surprising situation?
At 5 p.m. Tuesday, media members gathered in the west concourse of the stadium for weekly player availability after practice. Players are usually made available at about 5:30 p.m., but before the first player reached the waiting reporters, the ethical dilemma began.
Gavin Lang, Gundy’s media relations coordinator, gathered the group of reporters and said Gundy threatened that if any reporter asks a player a question about McCleskey, then players would no longer be available to any media for the rest of the season.
Reporters immediately took to the phones, calling editors and supervisors about what to do.
The four O’Colly football beat writers, who have all contributed to this story, stood among the frantic reporters trying to decide how to handle the situation.
We spoke to certain professors at our school about what happened in exchange for advice. However, no O’Colly reporter approached the professor who broke the news on Twitter on Wednesday about the incident.
In the tweet, the professor said, “An OSU SID, on behalf of coach Mike Gundy, threatened the press corps with the loss of player availability for the rest of the season if any one of them asked players Tuesday about a player’s departure this week.”
We never encouraged any professor to break the news or tweet criticisms about the journalists present. We have no control over what our professors tweet on their personal accounts. We did not go to our professors with the intention of having them leak the story and criticize the actions of those who were there.
We simply wanted advice about how to handle the brewing storm going forward.
Ian from the top rope. Because Ian works with the NFL shield right by his face, you rarely see him dunk on someone publically. He didnt hold back here and it’s pretty clear why.
When you get a chance, read the whole story. It’s pretty wild and not just because Mike Gundy is one of a long list of college head coaches who run their programs with an iron fist. It’s more surprising because this well researched and thought-out piece comes from the desk of a student newspaper. Well done, folks.
That’s right. Some of the journalists that Mike Gundy was threatening to withhold student-athletes from was the student paper. Fucking sad. These college coaches have such an inflated sense of self-importance. I mean, all Gundy has to do is come out and say what happened and why he doesn’t want the reporters to press the college students about this particular instance. Maybe there’s a valid reason; maybe there’s not. Either way, make the plea like a grown man. After all, he’s well over 40 at this point and is firmly on the record about that, so he should be able to speak to the press, especially the student-led press, with candor and great aplomb. Why use an aide to get your message out if that message is so important? Because you think your mullet dont stink. That’s the only reason. News flash, pee-eww.
I wonder what the other shit brewing behind the scenes is if Rapsheet is willing to stick his neck out like this. I cant wait to find out. Either way, Rapsheet,,,,, welcome to the mud.