Only way Miami would be in the market for a new head coach is if Richt decides to step down at the end of the season. If that were to happen, I would be 100% on board with Mike Gundy. The man is no slouch. The last time Miami hired a coach from OK St it worked out pretty well. That being said, it's highly unlikely he leaves his alma mater.
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Mike Gundy was promoted from offensive coordinator and named immediately as Miles' successor and the 22nd head coach at Oklahoma State. Gundy is one of three head football coaches at Oklahoma State to have played for Oklahoma State, along with
Jim Lookabaugh and
Floyd Gass.
His first season saw the expulsion of eleven players from the team and the Cowboys struggled to a 4–7 record winning only one Big 12 conference game. In his second season, the Cowboy offense began to click and the Cowboys would finish 7–6 including a victory over the Alabama Crimson Tide in the
Independence Bowl. In 2007, the Cowboys again posted a 6–6 regular season record and a bowl win over the Indiana Hoosiers in the
Insight Bowl. After their second straight bowl appearance, Gundy was rewarded with a contract extension through the 2013 season.
After posting a 9–3 regular season record in 2008, Coach Gundy received a new seven-year contract worth $15.7 million. The contract, which extends through the 2015 season, was taken into effect on January 1, 2009.
[18] Gundy's tenure as head coach of the Cowboys has seen the rise and expansion of not only his football program, but the football facilities as well. The Cowboys began the 2009 season ranked #9 in the country in the AP Top 25, but the dreams of a miracle season were crushed when the Pokes lost 45–35 to the unranked
Houston Cougars at home the following week, and later finding out that star wide receiver Dez Bryant was ruled ineligible for the remainder of the season, for lying to the
NCAA about having contact with 8-time pro bowler
Deion Sanders, which wasn't an NCAA violation in the first place. The following year, Oklahoma State hired Offensive Coordinator
Dana Holgorsen from the
University of Houston. In 2010 coach Gundy recorded the first ever 11-win season in Oklahoma State history. What was supposed to be a rebuilding year turned into the best in school history.
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Under Gundy there have been a series of
NFL quality wide receivers to come through
Boone Pickens Stadium. These include
Adarius Bowman,
Dez Bryant, and
Justin Blackmon.
On December 3, 2011, the Cowboys won their first Big-12 Championship in school history with a 44–10 victory over rival Oklahoma in the
Bedlam Series. The nationally third-ranked Cowboys eventually went on to win the
Tostitos Fiesta Bowl by beating fourth-ranked
Stanford in overtime, 41–38, on January 2, 2012.
On October 29, 2016, Mike Gundy recorded his 100th victory as a head coach with a 37–20 win over # 10 West Virginia. In the process, notching his sixth victory over a top 10 ranked school. Mike Gundy is the only Oklahoma State football coach to record 100 victories, and only the 6th coach to reach such a milestone with his current school.
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