Watch: Mike Gundy's Availability Ahead of Central Arkansas

STILLWATER – Oklahoma State head coach Mike Gundy met with the media on Thursday morning to discuss the Cowboys’ upcoming season opener against Central Arkansas on Saturday, Sept. 2. 

Gundy discussed several topics during the near-40 minute presser, which we’ve whittled down to just under 26 minutes. One of the most important topics Gundy hit on was the quarterback battle and the potential of playing at least three QBs in the first game of the season. 

He also addressed trying to finalize the roster, which you can read below. 

“This is the one area that I said multiple times — I don’t mind saying it — I don’t know what the answer is with all this going on right now,” Gundy said. “We only try to come up with a plan we think is best. What I share with our coaches is we want to treat our guys the way they need to be treated. We still want to have our culture that has a lot of structure and accountability. And if in that culture, a player chooses to leave because it’s something they don’t want to do, then I’m OK with that because they should leave because we need guys that are going to function in our culture. Right or wrong, that’s just the culture.

“I don’t want to rerecruit our players. I think you rerecruit them by the way you handle them. As I said at the start of August, and I said again today — there’s guys that have practiced well enough that need to play in the games. The portal has opened my eyes a little bit to, if a young man comes in and says, ‘I never had a chance,’ and if he never really had a chance, I don’t have anything to say to him other than, ‘Yeah, you’re right. You probably never got a chance. I understand.’ So we’re giving players a chance to play and go out and compete so we find out more about them, and they find out more about us.”