Oklahoma State suffered the second-worst loss in program history on Saturday with the 69-3 loss to Oregon on the road.
With the loss, the Cowboys dropped to 1-1 to start the season.
Head coach Mike Gundy met with the media after the game. Here’s his opening statement, and you can watch the entirety of his press conference above.
“I told the team that I didn’t do a good job of getting our players put in a position,” said head coach Mike Gundy. “We were too complicated in all three phases. Tried to do too much on defense, tried to do too much on offense and we ended up not being able to execute being good at anything. That’s my fault. I don’t fault them for what they were doing. Oregon is a very, very good football team and they were trying to find ways to maneuver, to get stops and trying to find ways to maneuver and move the football. And we ended up not being very good at anything. We didn't execute. Then they hit the early scores on you, and you're playing catch up to a certain extent. It doesn't help, but I've got to do a better job. I should have went in there last weekend and said, ‘Look, guys, here's the deal. Okay, we've got to be very, very, very simple, and we got to be able to go out and execute and be in the right spot, and we got to tackle, and we got to be able to rush the ball and use some play action.’ then we got, we got to a point was so far behind that it got one sided that now you're just reaching for anything. So and I shared with the team, I said, Look, guys, the good news is it's one game, but I'm going to take the blame with them, but they've all got to come back and train tomorrow, and we'll evaluate the tape, grade the tape, look at it, and then the coaches have to take responsibility. And then we move forward. You know, we've got an open week, so we get a chance to get four good days of practice in next week. Then we got to, you know, get back into a game routine and get ready to play Tulsa.”
