Board of Regents Executive Session Over, No Action Taken

(Pokes Report’s Zachary Lancaster contributed to this story.)

STILLWATER – The Oklahoma A&M Board of Regents executive session just adjourned Friday morning and after days of speculation about what it could be about, no action was taken. The Regents gaveled into session at 7:30 a.m. and almost immediately the motion was made to go into executive session and that motion passed unanimously. The meeting went on for just over two hours. 

Both Oklahoma State University President Dr. Kayse Shrum and Vice President of Athletics and athletics director Chad Weiberg joined the meeting just before 8:20 a.m., roughly an hour after it began at 7:30. They left the meeting around 9:20 a.m. Shrum and Weiberg left with  identical looks on their faces that seemed to be a mix of shock and disppointment. 

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Harrel at the Dec. 6, Board of Regents meeting.

Regents chairperson Jimmy Harrel told the media, including Pokes Report “No Action. We have a plan and it will be enacted soon.” All other regents deferred their comments to chairman Harrel. 

Pokes Report’s Robert Allen tried to speak with Weiberg, who said “I can’t say anything.” He was then asked if there could be any action today, to which he remained silent.

The main meeting, which is scheduled for 10 a.m., has been on the books for a year. But the executive session was added this week to consider “evaluation/assessment and other information relevant to the employment of the Oklahoma State University football staff.”

The main meeting of the Board of Regents moved to the fourth floor of the Student Union and adjourned mid afternoon. 

Earlier this week, it was announced Oklahoma State had fired both offensive coordinator Kasey Dunn, a 14-year veteran of the staff, and defensive coordinator Bryan Nardo, who was in his second season in Stillwater, following an 0-9 Big 12 record and a historically bad season in the stat book. This was just the second losing season for Gundy.