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Opinion: Can Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy learn new tricks? Mike Holder is counting on it.

Mike Holder says he was unaware the disconnect between OSU’s football coach and OSU’s football players had grown so wide. And I believe the Cowboy athletic director.

Holder is hands off. He coached an elite team, OSU golf, for more than three decades and didn’t like meddling athletic directors. So Holder wasn’t going to be one.

“I trust all of our coaches to do their job,” Holder said Friday. “I’ve got a job to do of my own, and really micromanaging any of our coaches doesn’t fit into my job description. So I trust them to do their job.