Via ESPN:<\/a><\/p>\n“Oregon is paying a lot, a lot of money for their team,” Gundy said. “From a nonconference standpoint, there’s coaches saying they should [play teams with similar budgets].”<\/p>\n
As you can imagine, the comments didn\u2019t go over well with Oregon coach Dan Lanning, who was asked about what Gundy said at his news conference later in the day.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike I said, I\u2019ve got a ton of respect for Coach Gundy,\u201d Lanning said. \u201cUltimately, how blessed are we being at a place that\u2019s invested in winning? If you want to be a top-10 team in college football, you better be invested in winning and we spend to win. Some people save to have an excuse for why they don\u2019t. And ultimately, he\u2019s a great coach that\u2019s done an unbelievable job, but I want to be a team that\u2019s competing at the highest level and we\u2019re really fortunate to be in that situation. So I can\u2019t speak on their situation, I have no idea what they got in their pockets over there. I\u2019m sure UT Martin maybe didn\u2019t have as much as them last week and they played, so we\u2019ll let it play out.\u201d<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s hard to dispute the points that Lanning made in his response. The Cowboys had their worst season of the Gundy era in 2024 as they went 3-9 and 0-9 in the Big 12. Oklahoma State allowed nearly 36 points per game a season ago; just eight teams gave up more points per game.<\/p>\n
Oregon, meanwhile, went undefeated in the regular season and won the Big Ten title before losing to Ohio State in the College Football Playoff.<\/p>\n
The Cowboys also clearly didn\u2019t have a problem playing a Tennessee-Martin team at the FCS level with far fewer NIL resources in Week 1 either, so the idea of NIL fairness must not go both ways. Both Oregon and Oklahoma State opened their seasons against teams in the second division of college football.<\/p>\n
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The two teams scheduled their home-and-home series with each other in 2018 before NIL payments became legal in college sports and Oregon will visit Oklahoma State next year.<\/p>\n
Oklahoma State also has Arkansas and Alabama on its future schedules over the next three seasons, so if Gundy is one of those coaches who thinks rich athletic departments should only play each other, he may want to move to cancel that Alabama series or boost his team’s own funding as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Gundy wants to make it known that Oklahoma State isn\u2019t spending as much NIL money on players…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5183,8897,81195,27961,81198,81194,81193,81196,1606,7945,2232,5693,99,81197],"class_list":["post-127440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-alabama","tag-arkansas","tag-coach-gundy","tag-dan-lanning","tag-dante-moore","tag-eugene","tag-mike-gundy","tag-montana-state-bobcats","tag-nil","tag-oklahoma-state","tag-oregon","tag-oregon-ducks","tag-sports","tag-the-cowboys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}