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BR: Back to the hair—is this something you take a great deal of care in because of the exposure? MG: Oh, yes. Now I have to be real careful with it. The young lady who cuts it texts me all the time telling me to get it trimmed up because people are complaining about it.

It has become a big deal. BR: It's always felt like a matter of time before a major college football program would come swoop in and get you. Are you just that content where you are? MG: I've been here so long that I've become a part of this school and it's a part of me. It's not that I want to retire here in a certain number of years and have everyone talk about how Mike Gundy built football at Oklahoma State.

That's not really what drives me. When I don't have the energy to do this anymore, I want the next guy to come in here and have an unbelievable job.

That's what drives me. That's my goal. BR: Beyond marketing, how are you able to put out a quality team basically yearly in a place where it hasn't been typical? MG: We've never changed our core values and what we believe in. We're going to be unselfish, play disciplined football and be accountable to each other. There'll be good years and some tough years. But the core system doesn't change. What has happened over a period of time is the players on our current team feel obligated to keep it the way it is for the guys who got it to this point.

For me, selfishly as a head coach, the one thing that is important to me is that after four years, when a player leaves our program, that he is productive in society.

That's what I need. For lack of a better term, I'm not into coaching a bunch of asshs. I want you to go out into the world and be productive, whatever it is you might do. I don't care what you want to do; I want you to leave here and give back to others. If you do that, then we've won. We all know we have to win games or they change coaches.

But if a young man leaves our program and six years later he has a decent job that makes him happy and maybe a family and he can look at me and tell he's glad he came here, that means it was successful. Here's the deal. We need young men to go out into society in this country and be productive. We're going the other direction, and I tell them that all the time. I don't care if you're white or black or Polynesian or rich or poor or country or city. It doesn't make any difference to me.

We need people who will make an impact, and we're in the business of putting those men out. That's why we win games. But we have guys who aren't worried about themselves.

I tell them that in recruiting. I tell them if they're not comfortable with that, they need to go somewhere else. Kids at the house, they won't talk to me. The old lady wife Kristen won't talk to me. Family won't talk to me. I probably don't even get to go to Thanksgiving. I'll tell you this right now, yaw'll think I'm joking, but it's lonely at the top, man. I've done this a long time. I'm in year 16 and I don't know why anybody would keep me this many years.

I've said this a lot, and I'll say it again, my job is to look at the effort and the game plans that we have put together and how I feel about our football team. If effort becomes a problem and attitude ever becomes a problem, we have an issue that has to be fixed. Gundy said the effort was good and even on the last series of the game he watched the video and felt effort was not a problem.

He did say on Saturday and even more emphatic on Monday that game plans were a problem. He started with the finger pointed at him because as he has said many times, he is responsible for approving the plans. The defense may have been too far gone in aiming to stop the counter. The counter OT is an Oklahoma favorite and it hurt the Cowboys in A good example of Saturday was they stopped counter on the first play for no gain, but that screen on the second play went for yards.

Of course, that also included three missed tackles on Rhamondre Stevenson. Offense, you get the sense that Gundy may have wanted a plan that compensated more for the Pokes biggest issue, the offensive line.

This contract restores the rollover to five years. Financial terms were not released. The school said those would be forthcoming at a later date. I look forward to working with my outstanding coaching staff to continue having a positive impact on the lives of the players and their families who allow us the privilege to help them succeed on the field and in life.