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McCleskey Situation Underlines Challenge of Running a College Football Program

If ever you thought you could run a tighter college football ship than Mike Gundy, or theorized you could coach a better game or call better plays from his post on the south sideline of Boone Pickens Stadium, then your postulation would be extremely misinformed.

Not because sporting a mullet or making vodka-smoothie jokes are necessarily challenging tasks, to be clear, but because those are the lighthearted aspects of a job that, by nature, is often intricate and fractious.

So much of what fans, and sometimes the media, feel that all coaches do centers around what takes place during a four-to-five hour window on Saturdays during football season.