Mike Gundy Has 11-Year-Old Son Train Him On Social Media

Social media is simultaneously one of the great boons to Mike Gundy’s career (trending on Big 12 media days because of a haircut?) and one of his biggest liabilities. It doesn’t help that the NCAA rules regarding social media are only getting more complicated.

“It’s very confusing,” Gundy told the Tulsa World recently regarding social media. “If you just sit down and think about the information that you have to absorb, and when you deal with social media and Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and direct message and all the other stuff, and to not make a mistake is difficult. It takes a lot of preparation.”

This is true, and it’s why OSU has folks on staff to help with such things. NCAA college football rules to me are like golf rules. You can keep making them more and more complex and pile rule after rule on to solve all the antiquated rules that don’t make sense anymore. Or you can just wipe everything out and start over. Because the NCAA/USGA is a bureaucracy you can guess which direction this will continue.

Maybe Gundy’s kids can save him?

Gundy on keeping up with social media trends for recruiting: "I get my 11-year-old son to train me."

— Kyle Fredrickson (@kylefredrickson) August 5, 2016

Seems questionable. Although to be fair he has hired good people who do a great job helping him out with this stuff. Presumably so he can worry about his hair instead.

Awesome to see @russwest44 staying with the @okcthunder. #ThunderUp Need to keep OKC rocking. pic.twitter.com/bBiUHI0LSJ

— Mike Gundy (@CoachGundy) August 5, 2016