STILLWATER — A few years ago, Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy began to buck college football’s trend of playing a spring game.
Now that the national trend has caught up to Gundy’s way of thinking, the coach is reversing course — at least for this year.
OSU’s Orange and White Game is back on.
“This team needs to play a game,” Gundy said following Tuesday’s practice at the Sherman Smith Training Center. “We’re gonna play a game. We’re gonna split teams. We’re gonna split coaches. And we’re gonna play a real game.
“I need to see them play a game.”
Gundy said he came to that decision Monday, but hadn’t yet filled in his coaching staff on the details of his plan.
Gundy had planned to hold an open practice at 1 p.m. Saturday at Boone Pickens Stadium on what was originally labeled Orange Power Weekend. Festivities also include the Remember the Ten run set for Saturday morning, plus a three-game series for the baseball team and a soccer scrimmage.
But the open practice will be replaced by a game, also set to start at 1 p.m., though Gundy says he’s been monitoring weather.
“You have an 84% chance of thunderstorms after 12 o’clock,” he said. “If it stays consistent like that, we may back it up to an 11 a.m. kickoff. I’d like to do it at 1 o’clock, but I’ve lived in Oklahoma a long time and I know what happens when the humidity starts building in the afternoon in Oklahoma.”
The game will consist of three 15-minute quarters — at least according to Gundy’s preliminary plan which he seemed to still be thinking through as he talked about it.
“In my mind, I’m thinking 15-15-15 with no halftime,” Gundy said. “To me, halftimes at spring games are bummers. A lot of people leave and everybody’s just…
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