Mike Gundy says Oklahoma State got player "because he was very inexpensive"

Mike Gundy has his nationally ranked Oklahoma State squad 2-0 after a captivating, come-from-behind overtime-win at home last Saturday against former rival Arkansas.

And Gundy continues to be electric behind a microphone, with a recent stretch including a candid appearance on ESPN's Pat McAfee Show in which Gundy predicted college football would break away into its own entity and additional post-practice press conferences.

Monday, two days after his team's 39-31 win, Gundy was asked to recount the tale of how the Cowboys landed super-senior defensive lineman Obi Ezeigbo out of the NCAA Transfer Portal.

"Do you want me to go back into coach-talk, or do you want me to tell you the truth?," Gundy asks a room of reporters.

After a chorus of "The truth," Gundy delivers.

"He was very inexpensive," Gundy said. "The number of players that we go after that were ready to play at this level, we can't afford (via Name, Image and Likeness funds).

"So, he was a good buy and a really quality young man that had had success and has physical characteristics that we could work with, raw glass, and develop him. And so that's why he ended up here, in my opinion."

Ezeigbo had a Herculean defensive effort in Oklahoma State's win against Arkansas; he notched nine tackles, including 3.5 tackles for losses with two of them quarterback sacks that resulted in 19 lost yards for the Razorbacks.

He's a 6-foot-2 Ewing, New Jersey, native who spent the first four years of his collegiate career at NCAA Division II program Gannon University in Pennsylvania. 

In other candid comments on Monday, Gundy also playfully chided a local reporter as being a "homer" and said, "Honestly, they (Arkansas receivers) were running wide open.

"We're honest here. There's no reason anybody should come to these press conferences if we're going to bullshit each other. So the point being is that they were running wide open. The good news is, it's fixable."