It’s been a pretty special six months for the Oklahoma State football team!
First they won the 1945 National Championship. Now they’ve won a magical 11th game from the 2016 football season!
Via ESPN:
Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy has extended his refusal to accept a Week 2 loss to Central Michigan last season that was marred by an officiating error with the engraving of “11-2” on the Cowboys’ commemorative Alamo Bowl rings.
Central Michigan beat the Cowboys 30-27 in Week 2 after the Chippewas were incorrectly awarded an untimed down when officials flagged Oklahoma State quarterback Mason Rudolph for intentional grounding on a fourth-down incompletion as time expired.
The Chippewas subsequently scored on a Hail Mary.
Oklahoma State also lost to Baylor and Oklahoma, finishing officially at 10-3 after the Alamo win over Colorado.
Wow. That’s the dumbest thing ever. They really give championship rings for winning the Alamo Bowl??! Haha. I’m sure it will look nice next to the Oklahoma State Cactus Bowl championship rings from 2014.
Also, really? We’re saying we won games we really didn’t win now? Before you know it, Mike Gundy’s going to claim he won the classic 1988 Bedlam game because Brent Parker “should have” caught the ball…
That’s such a fun thing to watch!
Anyway, I have a question / plea – can we please keep alternative facts out of sports? Whether it’s a bad call or end of game gaffe, sometimes you get screwed by officials and lose. Do you really need a reminder?
Seriously, deal with it and move on. Or better yet, don’t put your team in a position to lose to average mid-major school on your home field on the final play of the game. Then you won’t look like a mullet-headed tool trying to claim you won a game that you actually lost.
The true “little brothers” are the OU fans who didn’t graduate from OU.
Using your dumb logic I also can’t be a Green Bay fan because I never worked for the team.
I have heard that excuse from aggies all my life. I’m sure every Norte Dame, USC, Michigan, the real OSU, and the U fans all attended those schools too. Do you understand the sarcasm and hypocrisy? If not, I will be more than happy to explain. Take your inferiority complex and get better. Maybe then you won’t feel so bad about the most lopsided alleged rivalry ever. Then you can go petition for another National Championship trophy many decades after the fact.
It’s because no one aspires to be a part of OSU. They only have fans that went there. Meanwhile OU can inspire people to want to participate in any way they can, even it that’s just cheering them on.
I guess Pete sits outside of Nose Pickens Stadium before each game and demands that every person entering the gate for a game produce either a current student ID or a OSU diploma before they can go to their overpriced seats.
Pete’s going to have a long day at Butt Pickens stadium … 90% of the OSU fans I know went there for a semester or 2 and then dropped out because they spent more time drinking than going to class. Will Pete accept 20 year old expired student ID’s … That way the ‘true’ OSU fans can show him they went there for a while … But wait according to Pete they aren’t ‘true fans’ if they didn’t graduate from there … So he just disenfranchised 90% of his fan base ….
ESMF!
Congratulations go out to the players coaches and engravers the winners of the 2016 White Privilege Bowl!
Fitting they played in a bowl game named after a lost battle (or a rental car company, I dunno).
Almost as dumb as putting a blogger in a community college hall of fame.
This happens more than we football fans like to admit.
It’s only an outrage when it happens at a rival school, right?
http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2013/7/15/4525820/baylor-ring-holiday-bowl-score-art-briles
Damn the Aggies have to be the most insecure fanbase of all time…
That Oregon game though….
That was the worst day.
This perfectly exemplifies the OSU mindset that OU fans love to poke fun at. I think they also bought themselves Big 12 South Champion rings in 2010 even though they lost the tiebreaker to OU and didn’t play in the title game (which OU won).
Funny. Aggies bitch up a self-righteous storm about OU fans singing home of the SOONERS during National Anthem, which the University tries to get the fans to stop spontaneously doing. Meanwhile, Aggie university officials ACTUALLY BUY RINGS claiming they won a game they DID NOT win, due in large part to bone-headed inaction of university personnel, i.e. coaching staff.
And yet, the incessant whining of little brother will never, ever cease. Great timing, this. Specially since Gundy doesn’t have a contract extension. Boone will be pleased. Sooners should be concerned.
I don’t like the ring deal, but I kind of admire Mike’s rebellion against the entire fiasco. This was not a bad call, this was a wrong application of a rule that cost the game. The NCAA says they have no mechanism to change the outcome, but they do it all the time when an ineligible player participates.
If you can’t stop a Hail Mary from so far away that the qb can’t even get the ball all the way to the end zone , you deserve to lose. Add in a goober with a mullet who tucks in his sweatshirt and you’ve got a recipe for some ignorant shit like this. Long live oSu.
If you want something bad enough, you have to take responsibility for failures and shortcomings getting it done. Football is a game of humans… human players, human coaches, human fans, and human officials. We humans, in spite of everyone’s habits these days to never accept responsibility for them, make mistakes. If OkState wanted to win that game so bad, they should have accounted for this human factor and done more to put CMU away to insulate themselves against human error. They didn’t, and they got what they deserved. Same as OU in the 2006 Oregon game. Same as Michigan when they blamed an officiating error for their loss to OSU last season. Yes it absolutely hurts. But truth and logic are known to be harsh mistresses.
In a world where never admitting one’s mistakes and shortcomings has become the norm, it takes a tremendous leader not only to overcome this habit, but also to lead their team past it. It’s clear that OkState does not have this kind of tremendous leader, and the purchase of “denial” rings only serves to underscore this fact. And the worst part about it is that this is the example these young men and also the student body at-large are being given to follow.