I have long been president of the “Mike Gundy is the most underrated outside-the-box thinker in college football coaching circles” fan club. Despite his misdirection — the mullet, the Big Daddy coffee mug, the Carhartt jackets — Gundy is bent on (and good at) building a sustainable culture of success in Stillwater.
We talk about this a lot with Brad Underwood — deservingly so — because Brad Underwood talks about it a lot. He uses the word “culture” like my three-year-olds use the words “can we watch Daniel Tiger.” That is to say, liberally and without any inhibition.