Losing a lego-savvy offensive guru and a recruiting wizard of an offensive line coach (who doubles as a valuable alum) probably wasn’t part of the offseason Mike Gundy envisioned when he and his Cowboys took out Missouri on New Year’s Eve to ring in 2019.
No, this offseason was supposed to be about building for the future. About grooming Spencer Sanders into a Heisman contender, about re-calibrating the oft-woeful special teams, about finding — be it schemes, play-calls or Wildcat formations — every way imaginable to get the ball in the hands of Chuba Hubbard.