Mike Gundy doubles down on NCAA call-out, thinks Oklahoma State should still scrimmage Oklahoma

Mike Gundy doubled down on his idea of Oklahoma State scrimmaging Oklahoma in the spring. So, he called out the NCAA once again this week.

He doesn’t truly think the NCAA is going to do anything if teams actually pulled it off. This is despite them stepping in front of Deion Sanders and Fran Brown when the two coaches wanted to scrimmage against each other, having Syracuse head out to Boulder to practice against Colorado.

As it stands right now, Oklahoma State doesn’t play Oklahoma anymore due to the latter’s SEC affiliation. So Gundy, who even used an Animal House reference to describe the NCAA, doubled down on his point.

“So I’m not sure what the rules are, and I don’t think a committee would do anything about it. That’s why I still think next Saturday, we should go scrimmage OU,” Gundy said. “I mean, what difference, what are they going to do to us? Put us on double-secret probation?”

If you recall in the film, “Dean Wormer” puts Delta House on “double-secret probation” following the frat house’s latest hijinks. Is it a punishment? No, but the administration was watching them carefully. So is the NCAA going to watch Oklahoma State and Gundy carefully after disobeying orders by scrimmaging Oklahoma? We have no idea.

In ruling against providing a waiver for teams to compete against each other in a spring game, the NCAA noted concerns over academics and recruiting advantages not available to other programs. The rushed timing was also cited as a factor as to why teams can’t do this.

“I’ll be honest with you, I’m not going to waste my time on who’s going to determine what the rules are anymore,” Gundy said. “Because essentially there’s not really enough of them to follow. And I’m not sure how they have grounds to say you can’t do it. Like if somebody just goes and does it, what are they going to do to them?”

Gundy stated that he thought Oklahoma and Oklahoma State playing each other in the spring could be a real win-win for both programs. He even suggested ways to make it NIL-friendly.

“That’s something we’ve talked about,” Gundy said. “I think it’s a great idea… Honestly, for us, we should do a home and home with OU in the spring … They should come here on the 19th. I think theirs is earlier in the year, we should go down there and play a home-and-home against each other in the spring. Charge $25 a head, they can use it for NIL, we can use it for NIL. If they don’t want to do two in one spring, we can do one here this year, do it there next year, and split the gate. Because we get tired of practicing against each other.”