Mike Gundy was never going out the easy way. He succeeded in a hard college football job in part because of a combative belief in himself, and he was never going to be the guy who voluntarily faced the reality that he’d lost his touch. He wasn’t going to walk away gracefully.
Gundy was going to be fired, not retired. So he went out in a final blaze of defiance, instead of with a parade and platitudes. He did it his way for more than two decades, until Oklahoma State had to tell him his way no longer worked and it was over.
