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Out of His World: Mike Gundy’s Message of Bravado Comes at the Worst Possible Time

“This is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment. Only, it’s not going to be localized, it’s going to be happening all over the country. And I want America to understand that. … This is going to be the hardest and the saddest week of most Americans’ lives, quite frankly.” -Surgeon General Jerome Adams on April 5, 2020

Mike Gundy has always been a pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps kind of guy. That’s to be expected from somebody who rose from high school hero to the highest-paid human in the same state where he learned to walk and talk.