What Mike Gundy Said About the Texas Win: Five Great Quotes from the Head Man

I did a recap of Mike Gundy’s entire press conference on Sunday morning, but here are five of the more humorous or interesting quotes, excluding his thoughts on the Homecoming crowd, not giving a rat’s ass about Twitter and the kerfuffle with Tom Herman on the field.

On the Offensive Line

“I thought our offensive line was excellent. In fact, I thought the first half they were somewhat dominant for where we’ve been during the year.”

On the Last Two Weeks

“The synopsis of this whole deal is our kids worked their asses off for two weeks. They really did. I didn’t have to do anything other than, ‘Let’s condense this thing down a little bit. Let’s get a smile on our face, let’s go practice hard and put our big boy pants on.’ That’s what they did. Just like I told them in there, now you’re going to have to feed the monster for next week.”

On Why They Let Corn Run

“When we were reading all the social media and people said, ‘Let him run,’ I said, ‘Y’all need to figure out a way to let him run,’ and that’s what we did.”

This was a callback to his opener about how Twitter is ruining the country. Nobody laughed, and he called everyone out for it.

On Why They Put Corn Under Center

“That came from my 14-year-old. I’m serious. He said, ‘I’m tired of y’all not being able to get third and that much, why you don’t go under center and try? You have a better chance.’ So we had two weeks so we put it in.”

I …. I don’t know if he’s joking or not.

On Showing Some Fight

“For [the team], it was good for them. I told them that. You guys have had your back against the wall for four weeks so you learn to come back in the eighth round, sit down on the stool, put the cold iron, get some water, spit in the deal and then come out and brawl and hopefully finish strong in the 15th round. That’s really what they learned to do.”

On His Secondary Play

“I thought 4, 8, 24, 20, 31 and 3 (I lost track) did a good job of defending really long, talented receivers. I think that was the difference in the game in my opinion.”

It does get lost amid the Corn and Chuba and Tylan hype, but OSU’s defense was tremendous on Saturday. They have taken their fair amount of criticism over the last couple of weeks (and it was fair), but the offense and defense actually worked together (and off of each other) on Saturday night, and it resulted in a win.