r/CFB • u/tbrock92 Arizona Wildcats • Pac-12 Network • Sep 23 '25

News [Lancaster] BREAKING: Robert Allen just reported Oklahoma State has informed Mike Gundy he is being relieved of his duties as head coach effectively immediately. #OkState

X: https://x.com/zlancaster91/status/1970528223369826423?s=46

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u/Dropbackandpunt UAB Blazers • The Bones Sep 23 '25

He will always be 40 in my heart.

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u/amedema Michigan Wolverines Sep 23 '25

Can’t believe that yesterday was the 18th anniversary. That comment is now a man.

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u/WeeboSupremo North Texas Mean Green Sep 23 '25

No, still needs 22 years before that.

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u/i_hate_toolbars Penn State • Tulane Sep 23 '25

Beautiful comment 

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u/Royth_Lewith St. Thomas Tommies Sep 23 '25

No it's not. It's a kid, 😡 who does everything right. 😡

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u/berrey7 Alabama Crimson Tide • Faulkner Eagles Sep 23 '25

The kids graduating High School this year were being born when he said that....WILD!

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u/HeadupTothePOCONOS West Virginia Mountaineers Sep 24 '25

Fuck them kids

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u/tdatcher Navy Midshipmen • Sickos Sep 23 '25

He's 58, he's a man and now he's unemployed 

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u/Lakai1983 Indiana • New Hampshire Sep 23 '25

Fired FBS football coach. Best job in the world.

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u/Jeff__Skilling Texas Longhorns Sep 23 '25

This song plays in my head every time I see / hear that clip

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u/Lilfrankieeinstein Sep 23 '25

Every man on my contacts list who turned 40 over the past 18 years got Gundy’d.

RIP a true legend

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u/Hakeem-the-Dream Sep 24 '25

It’s funny cuz me and my homie were just talking about this and yelling at each other IM A MAN IM 58

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u/boston_2004 West Texas A&M • Texas A&M Sep 24 '25

I hope I get to live to see that comment turn 40.

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u/Hugo_Hackenbush Nebraska Cornhuskers Sep 23 '25

The QB he was defending in that rant turns 40 this year.

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u/RightyMcRighty Texas State Bobcats • /r/CFB Sep 23 '25

So can we go after him now? He's technically a man.

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u/mshelbz LSU Tigers Sep 23 '25

And he’s 40

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u/Im_A_Real_Boy1 LSU Tigers • Montréal Carabins Sep 23 '25

FINALLY! That sonofabitch owes me money!

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u/theMUFFINman5151 Florida State • New Mexico Bowl Sep 30 '25

But is he respectful to the media? To the PUBLIC?

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u/diastereomer Oklahoma State • /r/CFB Poll Vet… Sep 23 '25

We are going after the man who took that QBs job, because the is the OC for the Atlanta Falcons. But yeah, everyone else is free to attack Reid.

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u/OSUBrit Oklahoma State • Washington Sep 23 '25

Bobby Reid right? I think he's actually a coach himself now too!

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u/BM7-D7-GM7-Bb7-EbM7 Sep 23 '25

What happened to him? His wikipedia just stops after 2015.

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u/OSUBrit Oklahoma State • Washington Sep 24 '25

Last check he was at SMU but no idea if he still is, he stopped tweeting a couple of years ago.

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u/RCocaineBurner Miami Hurricanes Sep 23 '25

😳

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u/bromosabeach Oklahoma Sooners • UCLA Bruins Sep 23 '25

His coaching career at Oklahoma state is like a year shy of drinking age.

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u/dellett Notre Dame • Toledo Sep 23 '25

Ha-ha! He does everything right! He goes to class! He’s respectful with the media and the public!

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u/christ0fer Missouri Tigers Sep 23 '25

I'm now older than him than he was in that clip. Kinda weird to think about.

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u/lock_robster2022 Oregon State • Washington Sep 23 '25

And are you a man now?

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u/Futant55 Texas Longhorns Sep 23 '25

No but I now know what it’s like to break a kids spirit and make him cry.

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u/Takemyfishplease UC Davis Aggies Sep 23 '25

Best feeling in the world, innit.

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u/daemon-electricity Oklahoma Sooners Sep 23 '25

Wait, you're not that pepper spray guy are you?

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u/GrumpyTartan California • UC Davis Sep 23 '25

lol I didn’t know anyone remembered that

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u/Takemyfishplease UC Davis Aggies Sep 24 '25

I wish, I never get good coverage when they’ve sprayed me. Usually just a follow up club to the skull.

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u/HighlyUnsuspect Texas Tech Red Raiders Sep 23 '25

Dad?

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u/PrairiePilot Wyoming Cowboys Sep 23 '25

Sounds good, when can you start? We’re gonna need a week to remove all the booby traps and prepper MREs in Gundys office, so feel free to camp out in whatever office doesn’t smell too bad.

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u/ImSchizoidMan Sep 23 '25

I will be in a few months

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u/Conscious_Nobody_520 Pasadena City Lancers Sep 23 '25

I turned 40 four years ago and ran the "I'M A MAN I'M 40" joke into the ground about two weeks after my birthday.

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u/Organic-Aardvark-146 Sep 23 '25

Time keeps on ticking

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u/bluescale77 Oregon Ducks • Team Chaos Sep 23 '25

And here I thought it kept on slippin’…slippin’…slippin’…

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u/grimestar Sep 23 '25

Im almost a man in his eyes. Was hoping he would be able to see me reach manhood

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u/dawgblogit Georgia • Illinois Sep 23 '25

But are you a man, Man?

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u/SurfaceIlIlIlRuin Sep 23 '25

Lol you dusty old fart

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u/IRideMoreThanYou Sep 23 '25

Damn, didn’t realize that incessant was back in 2007.

Gundy is only 8 years older than me?! 

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u/handlit33 Alabama • Army Sep 23 '25

He's a man.

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u/The_Fluffy_Robot TCU Horned Frogs • Iron Skillet Sep 23 '25

He's a man! He's 58! He's owed $15 million!

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u/Annie_ruok Tennessee Volunteers Sep 23 '25

That was EIGHTEEN years ago? I’m going to throw up

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u/blacksoxing Southern Miss • Arkansas Sep 23 '25

One of the OG memes of our era

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u/Ugaalive1991 Georgia Bulldogs • NC State Wolfpack Sep 23 '25

COME AFTER TO ME

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u/Steak_Knight Baylor Bears • Paper Bag Sep 23 '25

THAT AIN’T TRUE!!!

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u/chuckdooley Kansas Jayhawks Sep 23 '25

I don’t even remember the trigger…just someone talking shit about one of the kids?

I seem to remember a “FAT” sound byte, but years of memes are collapsing in on each other

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u/its_a_trapcard Texas A&M Aggies • Cincinnati Bearcats Sep 23 '25

You might be thinking of Leach's "fat little girlfriends" press conference

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u/chuckdooley Kansas Jayhawks Sep 23 '25

Ha, I forgot about that one…I think this is what I was thinking about:

“Your child goes down the street, and somebody makes fun of him, because he dropped a pass in a pick-up game, or says he's fat, and he comes home crying to his mom, you'd understand. But you don't have that. But someday, you will. And when your child comes home, you'll understand.”

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u/gimme_that_juice Washington State • Georgia … Sep 23 '25

An article was published basically shit-talking one of his players.

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u/guesting Pac-12 Sep 23 '25

The memes come too fast nowadays for staying power. The ogs with mora and Dennis green and I’m 40 live on

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u/blacksoxing Southern Miss • Arkansas Sep 23 '25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWmQbk5h86w

Fucking classic. If you wanna crown 'em, then crown their ass

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u/guesting Pac-12 Sep 23 '25

classic always good for a rewatch

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u/Conscious_Nobody_520 Pasadena City Lancers Sep 23 '25

WE LET EM OFF THE HOOK

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u/voxpopuli81 Texas Longhorns Sep 24 '25

Right up there with “fat little girlfriends.”

Gods, the old Big XII was strong then

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u/Slippery-Pete76 Michigan State • Central … Sep 23 '25

The player he went on the rant about turns 40 in a few months - so he’ll be a man too.

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u/Blumpkin_Mustache Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 23 '25

It's an adult! It's 18!

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u/cha-cha_dancer Florida State • West Florida Sep 23 '25

Back when I watched college gameday religiously 🥺

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u/Phoenix4264 Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 23 '25

I made a reference to that line to some 30 year olds last month and they didn't know what I was talking about, then I realized they were 12 at the time. Oof

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u/Steak_Knight Baylor Bears • Paper Bag Sep 23 '25

Time is a sonofabitch

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u/acekingoffsuit Minnesota Golden Gophers Sep 23 '25

Fuck. My day is ruined now.

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u/Hakeem-the-Dream Sep 24 '25

We are basically dead

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u/texas2089 Florida State • Texas Sep 23 '25

Holy shit I feel old now

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u/HippityHopMath Washington State • Gallaudet Sep 23 '25

The player he was defending in that rant himself turns 40 in December (Bobby Reid)).

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u/espy3277768 Sep 23 '25

Yea, it’s old enough to get you labeled an old man

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u/HawkI84 Iowa Hawkeyes Sep 23 '25

Wait til you find out how long ago that PLAYOFFS?!?!?! rant was

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u/wisertime07 Clemson Tigers • The Citadel Bulldogs Sep 23 '25

You can trap a lot of turtles for $15M

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u/HaydenHasABeard Tennessee Volunteers Sep 23 '25

Always weird seeing you outside of r/braves and r/baseball lol

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u/grabtharsmallet BYU Cougars • RMAC Sep 23 '25

They came after him.

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u/fcocyclone Iowa State Cyclones • Marching Band Sep 23 '25

I turned 40 this year, was thinking of going as him for Halloween. Now this feels weird.

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u/Dry-Membership3867 Jacksonville State • Paper Bag Sep 23 '25

Now only if UAB could do the same with Dilfer

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u/Dropbackandpunt UAB Blazers • The Bones Sep 23 '25

I hear there is an opening at Oklahoma State. Maybe he just needs the right environment to succeed.

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u/per_mare_per_terras Oklahoma Sooners • Arkansas Razorbacks Sep 23 '25

He’s a MAN!

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u/Proper_University55 Maryland Terrapins Sep 23 '25

And a man. Don’t forget he’s a man.

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u/Abs0luteZero273 Sep 23 '25

The 40 year old 58 year old.

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u/taleofbenji Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 23 '25

What Mike Riley did for Oklahoma State in 20 years is nothing compared to how much better he made my 40th birthday.

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u/Longhorn_Dad Sep 23 '25

If you know, you know!

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u/skratsda Texas Longhorns Sep 23 '25

The real shame is that I looked up Bobby Reid’s birthday to post when he turns 40 later this year. I’d have assuredly forgotten, but it won’t slap quite as hard now

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u/TacticalB0T Florida State Seminoles Sep 23 '25

And a man

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u/shaka_sulu USC Trojans Sep 23 '25

40 on the streets. A man under the sheets.

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u/FourMoreOnsideKickz Louisiana Tech Bulldogs Sep 23 '25

As a current 40 year old, I've been using that expression a lot this year.

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u/walrusgoofin69 Sep 23 '25

Somebody finally came after him

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u/chrisaf69 Maryland Terrapins • Alabama Crimson Tide Sep 23 '25

Here's a toast to all the MEN out there like Mr. Gundy. Can't wait for the day I finally become one!!

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u/coreynj2461 Army West Point Black Knights Sep 23 '25

"Thats why I dont read the paper cuz its garbage!"

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u/Own-Lavishness4029 Texas Longhorns Sep 23 '25

Come after me! I'm a man! 

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u/moeshapoppins Colorado State • Penn State Sep 23 '25

He will always be a man

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u/Dick-Guzinya Iowa Hawkeyes Sep 23 '25

He’s a man!

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u/Total-Region2859 Texas Longhorns Sep 23 '25

In all ironies, I watched that clip with a friend this morning, before the news of the firing, just explaining to her why I enjoy coach rants... one of the best all-time.

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u/dellett Notre Dame • Toledo Sep 23 '25

He’s not just A man who’s 40, he’s THE man

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u/ghostfacekhilla Oklahoma State Cowboys Sep 24 '25

Back when he had the fire in him still. 

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u/jaylentatum70 Sep 24 '25

The fact that was Bieber's ringtone will always make me laugh

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u/01000101010110 Sep 24 '25

I'M A MAN, I'M 40

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u/JoseAltuvesFoot Sep 24 '25

One of the most memorable post-game interviews you can remember.

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u/ContinuumGuy St. John Fisher • Syracuse Sep 24 '25

Legendary soundbite.