Mike Gundy talks about why Oklahoma State didn’t offer Mason Fine

Oklahoma State head coach Mike Gundy was probably right about Mason Fine not actually being 5-11, especially when he graduated from Locust Grove High School in 2016. However, Gundy could have been wrong for not taking a chance on the only two-time Gatorade Player of the Year from Oklahoma.

Fine was offered as a preferred walk-on at OSU but didn’t receive an actual scholarship offer from any of the three in-state universities, with North Texas being his lone FBS offer. Before the offer to go to Denton from newly hired Seth Littrell, it looked like Fine was headed to Stillwater as a walk-on.

OSU had its sights set on Nick Starkel at the time, but even after Starkel decommitted to sign with…