Oklahoma State football: Uniforms a topic in recruiting
At his recruiting press conference Wednesday, I asked Mike Gundy if the signing of Jeremiah Tshimanga meant that Nike had been contacted about reducing the font size for the names on the backs of the jersey. I went for the laugh and mostly got it from the 400 or so Cowboy fans assembled. Much appreciated.
But Gundy said learning some of the pronunciations is “a little scary,” considering OSU signed Victor Irokansi, Emmanuel Ogbah, Dominic Ramacher, Jhajuan Seales and Jeremiah Tshimanga. Gundy said as far as he’s concerned, Tshimanga’s new nickname is “JT.”
And in all seriousness, I asked Gundy if the new Nike uniforms, which certainly drew national attention during the 2011 season.
“Sadly enough, yes,” Gundy said. “Truthfully, recruiting is very entertaining. As a coach, you go in, you’ve got everything lined up that you want to say. I might talk 45 minutes and never mention football. I’ll talk about developing as a man and education and what you’re going to be doing in 10 years.
“You can have a speech ready, and you can go in a home, fire it out for about 15 minutes, and you get stopped by a parent. ‘You changing your uniforms or are you going to wear what you had last year?’”
Gundy said the Californians that OSU recruited particularly were curious about the uniforms. “It was a huge hit out there with those guys,” Gundy said. “They’re fired up about the uniforms.”
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Unfortunately none of the California guys signed with OSU. My guess is that it will pay off next recruiting season.
Gundy said as far as he’s concerned, Tshimanga’s new nickname is “JT.”
—how ignorant is that, learn to say your kids names
referring to the last comment…Gundy was joking when he said it. Don’t take every comment so literal.
In other words, only the idiot kids who don’t care about the school, the education, or the quality of the program care about OSU’s “special” uniforms.
Recruiting with “special” uniforms is a lowest-common-denominator approach, that furthers the dumbing-down of America.
LOL!!!!!