After OSU wrestling coach John Smith’s father, Lee Roy Smith, Sr., died last Sunday, he received some much-needed support from his OSU coaching family. The Stillwater Newspress wrote a story on what OSU coaches have done to support the Smith family.
With how much of a role the family had in the sports scene in the Mid-Del area of the Oklahoma City metro, the family was very familiar with possibly the “First Family” of Oklahoma football – the Gundys, which lived in Midwest City.
So Mike Gundy and John Smith were inevitably linked through their neighborhood, and then through OSU.