Article nails our recipe for success, great Gundy quote

http://espn.go.com/college-football...d-cardinal-face-challenge-maintaining-success

I really like this paragraph and Gundy quote from the article:

Neither program reached the top with a core of four- and five-star recruits. The danger of success is the temptation to bypass the type of players who made Stanford and Oklahoma State what they are in favor of recruits with faster 40-yard times and better bench presses.


"My office doors revolve with coaches coming in and wanting to go to Oregon and Michigan and New Jersey and Florida and everywhere," Gundy said of the recruiting process. "... There's two things that happen: One, it costs too much money, and two, it costs too much time. I could be in Texas and Oklahoma hitting four or five schools in the same amount of time that I can get in one school and try to convince a young man to come get an education and play football at Oklahoma State, and he's 18 hours away from his home."

After posting this thread, I was shocked to notice that Ivan Maisel wrote this. I don't ever recall him writing something positive about us. Maybe I missed his OSU football enlightenment article somewhere.

Articles like this ease the bad publicity of this summer for me. It agrees with what so many on this board think! That being, having a committed, knowledgeable coaching staff many of who are alums, good facilities, taking in lower rated players and getting more out of them, building depth, more fan participation and support equals a team on the rise. It is not a flash in the pan, but a steady growth over a long period of time. It's Orange all the way and getting better every day.

Needs some Monken profanity to salt it up, but other than that, great article.

Good grief, we - as a school and alums - are so damn fortunate to have Gundy.

I guess we're in the big time when Maisel drops his usual Alabama/Texas/OU material for us (and Stanford):

http://espn.go.com/college-football...d-cardinal-face-challenge-maintaining-success

Another great quote from the article: