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.
Oklahoma State player demands a change in policy – 1) Earrings 2)Du-Rag/Wave-Cap 3)Ability to Sag pants 4) Hair 5) Music – Music previoisly could not contain curse words, derogatory language toward women/race – These were damands, all agreed to by Gundy #NoSarcasm
— Doug Gottlieb (@GottliebShow) June 16, 2020
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.
Not true… https://t.co/3KjFnXCEpJ
— SUPERMAN (@OfficialTylan2) June 16, 2020
Be careful what you say and who you listen to. The entirety of this isn’t true and depicts a bad image on us. I haven’t heard anywhere within the program that someone wants to play music that is disrespectful towards women. This isn’t the sincere objective we’re trying to achieve https://t.co/C0k3T4kDzK
— Amen Ogbongbemiga (@closedprayer) June 16, 2020
Ya you talking out your neck on this one but good try! https://t.co/x1J4XrxogO
— Devin Harper🎈 (@DevinHarper13) June 16, 2020
Furthest from the truth https://t.co/rOymldxrf6
— B ⚡️ (@GLOing_817) June 16, 2020
Not true at all https://t.co/UYXW1GdVHm
— Tracin⚡️✨ (@TracinWallace) June 16, 2020
The media loves to create negative stereotypes… https://t.co/MpzPcRTFpR
— Jarrick T. Bernard (@TheJBnard) June 16, 2020
Who ever said this??? That’s people problems now! NOBODY said this.. if you don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes then don’t make a comment. I’m so tired of seeing this stuff. https://t.co/UX8cKOJvoz
— ✞. (@collinclay_) June 16, 2020
Totally Untrue & False some people are just pitiful https://t.co/pbSsoATy07
— Master $ensei🤺🤺 (@Blessed_Fofana) June 16, 2020
If you wasn’t there don’t speak on it. https://t.co/ABJLo7bNvQ
— Big Cam (@CamCam700) June 16, 2020
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.
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