Mike Gundy has completely changed his tune.
The Oklahoma State coach issued a fiery statement on Tuesday for recently wearing a One America News T-shirt.
“I had a great meeting with our team today,” Gundy said in a video posted to Twitter. “Our players expressed their feelings as individuals and as team members. They helped me see through their eyes how the T-shirt affected their hearts. Once I learned how that network felt about Black Lives Matter, I was disgusted, and knew it was completely unacceptable to me.
I want to apologize to all members of our team, former players, and their families for the pain and discomfort that has been caused over the last two days. Black lives matter to me. Our players matter to me. These meetings with our team have been eye opening and will result in positive changes for Oklahoma State football. I sincerely hope the Oklahoma State near and far will accept my humble apology as we move forward.”
This is what Gundy had to say about OAN before the backlash:
“I tell you what’s funny is, I was flipping through stations,” Gundy said in early April. “I found one — I don’t even know if anybody knows about this — it’s called OAN. It’s One America News. And it was so refreshing. They just report the news. There’s no commentary. There’s no opinions on this. There’s no left. There’s no right. They just reported the news. And I’ve been watching them the last week, because they’re given us the news and given us more information — in my opinion — some of the positives are coming out. So, that was refreshing.”
His change of mind has everything to do with star running back Chuba Hubbard and other players on the team calling him out for wearing the t-shirt.
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Gundy also addressed the shirt issue in a video on Monday … vowing to help change the culture at OSU.
