Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy apologized on Tuesday after his team — and star player Chuba Hubbard — raised serious concerns when Gundy was photographed wearing a One America News T-shirt.
OAN is a far-right television network that has promoted racist and xenophobic conspiracy theories. In his apology — which came a day after an initial video with Hubbard — Gundy claimed that he was disgusted once he was informed how OAN felt about the Black Lives Matter movement.
But the questions for Gundy won’t stop with a scripted apology video.
During Wednesday’s edition of FS1’s Undisputed, Shannon Sharpe said that he spoke with former Denver Broncos and University of Colorado linebacker Alfred Williams. Back in 1989, Colorado took on Oklahoma State with Gundy at quarterback. And according to Williams, Gundy repeatedly called him and his Black teammates the N-word.
These accusations were actually brought up against Gundy at the time 30 years ago. Williams and Kanavis McGhee were among the CU players to accuse Gundy of using the racist slur as trash talk.
At the time, though, Gundy denied claims he said the N-word by telling reporters, “I’ve been here four years and half my friends are Black. I would never say that.”
Oklahoma State lost 41-17 to Colorado in that game. And as Sharpe pointed out, Gundy dismissed the allegations as an attempt to make him look bad — as if a 41-17 loss didn’t already do that job.
Neither Gundy nor Oklahoma State have responded to these resurfaced allegations. But just as they did with the T-shirt, his players will almost certainly want answers.
