Oklahoma State football players — led by star running back Chuba Hubbard — threatened a boycott on Monday after a photo circulated on social media showing head coach Mike Gundy wearing a One America News T-shirt.
In the hours after Hubbard tweeted his frustrations with his coach promoting a far-right television network — an outlet that’s known to parrot racist and xenophobic conspiracy theories — Hubbard joined his head coach for a Twitter video and ended up being the one to apologize.
Yet, Hubbard promised that change was coming for the program. And on Tuesday, former Oklahoma State basketball player and current Fox Sports talking head Doug Gottlieb claimed that players came to Gundy with a list of demands. Those demands concerned things like hair, music and the ability to sag pants.
Gottlieb — who has even had his credibility questioned by his own colleagues — said that Gundy agreed to those “demands.” But immediately upon seeing that tweet, Oklahoma State football players were quick to dispute the claim in its entirety.
Gottlieb’s only follow-up on the unsourced tweet was to tell someone that he was “serious.” But the chorus of Oklahoma State players denying that tweet should be telling in itself.
