'No, that's why I let them schedule the Alabama game' quips Mike Gundy when asked if he expected to

does it mean to be entering your 20th season what about it what does it mean to um well I've been very fortunate it's extremely difficult in this profession to to be 20 years uh even more difficult to be 20 years as a head coach and then maybe even a little more difficult to be at the same place um you know once you get past seven years as Mike Leech says you make a lot of enemies in the same location that's why you got to stay on the move so I've been very fortunate to be here a long time and have a lot of good things happen but I've had we've we've had great people here um and we've gotten very fortunate to have tough kids really tough young men that love to play football that somebody might have thought weren't as talented as what we did but they were willing to be um regardless of the um physical situation we put them in they were willing to compete at a high level and and play and love okom state so I've been very fortunate 10 years ago go ahead 10 10 years ago would you have thought you would be here entering your 20th season no that's why I let him schedule Alabama game I thought that would be somebody else's issue and I thought it's creeping up on me now it's four years from now right I said two so that makes me feel better uh or next year yeah I mean we scheduled Oregon and that's a little bit what I was referring to with our scheduling we've actually done a good job because we have some really tough non-conference opponents which will be good for the the the playoff team uh committee

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