If you could draw up a least-favorite college football scenario five years ago for Mike Gundy — outside of mandatory grooming — it probably would have been the transfer portal.
Like it or not, Gundy is mega-old school to the point that I’m not sure he doesn’t tell incoming freshmen about how he had to walk from Kerr-Drummond to Lewis Field every day giving Thurman Thomas and Barry Sanders piggyback rides for conditioning.
And yet, here we are. A few years into the transfer portal era, and OSU has both benefited (Israel Antwine) and paid the price (Sugar Loaf Daniels and Jalen McCleskey) of the portal’s existence.