WATCH: Mike Gundy, Chuba Hubbard Promise Change Within Oklahoma State Football Program

WATCH: Mike Gundy, Chuba Hubbard Promise Change Within Oklahoma State Football Program

Monday, June 15th 2020, 8:12 pm

By: CBS News


The Mike Gundy-OAN shirt controversy has been settled ... for now, at least. Gundy, along with star Oklahoma State running back Chuba Hubbard, appeared in a video Monday evening smoothing over what very well could have been a stunning boycott within the program.

Following numerous tweets of support from his teammates, along with some concerning statements from Oklahoma State's administrators, Gundy and Hubbard appeared together in the video on Hubbard's account. Gundy said that, following a team meeting, he was "looking forward to making some changes and it starts at the top," while Hubbard apologized for taking his issue to Twitter. 

"In light of today's tweet with the T-shirt I was wearing, I met with some players and realized it's a very sensitive issue with what's going on in today's society," Gundy said. "We had a great meeting and made aware of some things players feel like can make our organization, our culture even better than it is here at Oklahoma State. I'm looking forward to making some changes and it starts at the top with me. We have good days ahead."

"I went about it the wrong way by tweeting. I'm not someone that has to tweet something to bring change. I should have went to him as a man. I'm more about action. That was bad on my part," Hubbard said. "But from now on we're going to focus on bringing change and that's the most important thing." 

The dustup on Monday began after Hubbard, the nation's leading rusher in 2019, came across a tweet showing Gundy on a fishing trip wearing a shirt representative of the One America News Network. OAN is considered a fringe right-wing cable channel seen as heavily pro-Donald Trump for which Gundy previously expressed his affinity. 

"I will not stand for this," Hubbard tweeted. "This is completely insensitive to everything going on in society, and it's unacceptable. I will not be doing anything with Oklahoma State until things CHANGE." 

Additionally on Monday evening in the wake of the controversy, linebacker Amen Ogbongbemiga, who previously voiced his support for Hubbard, said, "we are happy to have came to a conclusion and opened a gateway to create some serious CHANGE around Oklahoma State. My teammates and I have all agreed we will go ahead and resume all workouts and activities. We're all in this together."


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