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STILLWATER — With only a few practices behind him in the early days of preseason camp, Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy hasn’t gained a tremendous amount of additional insight into his team since he last spoke to reporters at Big 12 Media Days three weeks ago.
OSU’s venture into the unknown continued with its local media day Saturday at Gallagher-Iba Arena, and while Gundy remains excited about the talent level of his team, he still has a lot of questions to answer before the Aug. 28 opener against Tennessee-Martin.
The most notable of those questions is at quarterback, where redshirt freshmen Zane Flores and Hauss Hejny are dueling for the starting job.
Here’s a look at what Gundy had to say about his quarterbacks and other topics at OSU football media day:
How would Mike Gundy fix college football?
As he enters his 21st season as the OSU coach and his 40th overall in college football, Gundy joked that he never believed he’d still be coaching at this point.
He also suggested his post-coaching career — whenever that comes — will be in an analyst role on television.
But for now, Gundy has some ideas for the direction the game needs to go.
College football is passing through one of its most turbulent times with the recent NCAA House settlement allowing for players to be paid, the explosion of name, image and likeness deals and the transfer portal era.
“I don’t think anybody’ll listen, but I can fix it,” Gundy said.
“You need a commissioner. You gotta get one person in charge. And they gotta get the four power people (Power Four conference commissioners) in one room, and they all gotta start talking about equality and how can we revenue share across the country. We follow the NFL pattern. If you’re not…
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