I know, but that's because this is funny
Here's another interesting read on the situation:
Linky
He's usually very good at shutting up about things, but it really sounds like he is irked at this:
Media dude: OSU has consecutive 11-win seasons. Does that help you in further contract negotiations?
Gundy: Obviously not.
Media: After a Big 12 championship season, a OU-OSU victory and an Eddie Robinson national coach of the year award, why would this negotiation linger into Fiesta Bowl preparations?
Gundy: I can’t answer that right now... I’m hoping that we can get it resolved really fast. I’m just almost sure that we can.
It's not like he's not already got a pretty good pay thing going or that his contract is almost up --- he has four years left on a 7-year, $15.7 mil deal.
The problem is... Travis Ford, IMHO. The Pokes gave him a 10-year, $20.375 mil deal after only one season.
We are not Pokes, so we can do the math... and the math says that Ford is getting paid to suck into the NIT (
loss to Harvard at home last year!) and Gundy is getting paid roughly the same to take crappy OSU within a missed field goal of the BCS title game. Derrrrrrp?????!
But, that 10-year Ford deal also works against Gundy, as
this guy said. There are very few that don't think that longterm dealio isn't a mistake anymore... do they really want to pay for another expensive mistake like that in football, also?
Besides... where would Gundy go? This is, as he put it, his New York Yankees job. He is stuck in Stillwater, unless he wants to go to... um... Houston. Or... um... Penn State???? hehehe