STILLWATER — Kenny Gajewski was recruiting in Tennessee on June 13, 2015 (also his mother’s birthday) when he received a phone call.
Then an assistant with Florida, Gajewski had interviewed for the Oklahoma State job, and he was expecting a phone call one way or the other. He answered the phone to hear OSU athletic director Mike Holder’s voice.
“Man, he talked to me for 20 minutes before he said anything, and all he was doing was telling me how great all these other people were,” Gajewski said Monday. “I was like, ‘Just tell me I don’t have the job.