Stillwater college light athletics, especially football, may be the ultimate card game with high-stakes, in which you are only as good as your last hand, as both Mike Gundy and Todd Grantham discovered last week.
The sports director of Oklahoma State, Chad Weiberg, seems to be aware of the risk. When the weekly Mike Gundy radio broadcast used to speak, Weiberg said that he would take a risk to those who ultimately act as the next cowboys head coach.
“One of the possibilities to minimize this risk is that they hire someone who was there and did it before,” said Weiberg.
However, this does not mean that the experience and success of head coaching will not be negotiable for the ad Oklahoma state in this role. Weiberg said he expects everyone to talk about the opening while this coaching search cycle will make a decision or whether they will make one very soon in a future cycle.
“Nevertheless, every single great trainer that you can imagine was simply a co -trainer somewhere before getting the first job as head coach,” said Weiberg. “… we won't be afraid to speak to people who are also co -trainers because I think the next great head coach is somewhere out there somewhere.”
Weiberg said he would use a search company to make him search for the entire season. He said he used you when he made the decision to bring the basketball coach of men Steve Lutz, but said he didn't always use it. Weiberg did not mention the participation of a company in the hiring process for wrestling trainer David Taylor or the basketball coach of women, Jacie Hoyt, although he used to mention each of these coaches in the conversation.
Weiberg said a company could help deal with chaos, which some with the search “this will go one for a few months”. When asked whether the goal had completed the attitude process as soon as possible after the end of the regular season, Weiberg replied “absolutely”.
“Much of it is dictated by their schedules, and if, as you know, you are able to link everything it is, you know wherever you are, but that will be the plan that it is an immediate transition from this to this time,” said Weiberg.
The transfer portal is scheduled to open on January 2 after this season. The early signing period for recruits of the high school begins on December 3 and ends on December 5.
Weiberg said he planned to use the time between now and the introduction of the new trainer to check the current practices on site with Cowboy football.
“Only some of the program's internal work, and make sure that we want it to be so,” he said. “Of course we all know that in the last two or three years of age, right, some things have happened in the past two or three years.
“That has changed the way things are played.
At one point, Weiberg was asked whether Oklahoma State's path to the playoff was easier than Arkansas, who is also looking for a new head coach this week who makes cowboys a desirable task for candidates.
Weiberg replied and said: “I would like to find a trainer who believes that he will win wherever he is. … If he is hired by a SEC program, he would win the SEC. He will be hired by us.
Weiberg said that the SEC, Big 12 and Big Ten were all competition conferences. The difference lies with the television contracts, which the BIG 12 decidedly take third place under these three conferences.
“You can therefore finance your programs differently,” said Weiberg. “We do not have them, so we have to rely on our supporters to improve the field. But they know as long as we can say that they have the resources they need to compete to compete for championships, I would like to hire the man who believes that he will do so in every conference in which he is located.”
This attitude is important because the sports director of the state of Oklahoma said that the cowboys may not be in Big 12 forever. He said there is a “half joke” between him and the colorado display because the cowboys have a two-game-not conference series that is planned in 2036 and 2037. Although Colorado returned the BIG 12 last season, they have not yet canceled these games, only in the event that they appear in different conferences.
“In five or six years there will be a chance that we will not know in which conference we are in,” said Weiberg. “So we are better ready to take part in every conference that we are on.”
The television orders of the conference begin in 2030 with the Big 12 Treaty with ESPN in 2031.
“That means negotiations and everything that will begin here in the year '28, '29 … so we have a short window here to get our house in order,” said Weiberg. “And we have to gain at a very high level so that we know that we will have a chair and the best way to know that they will have a solid chair, and that's football games.”