Lots of things are funny. Some things are funniest the first time then depreciate quickly like a first-generation Blu-Ray player (or Odyssey Resources stock). This rant has been around for a while now but like most coach's rants, it's funnier the more times you hear it. Coach's rants always need some time to sink in because the first time you hear it you're actually listening to the point they're making, is it right, is it fair, did that reporter deserve to be yelled at, was race an issue (even if the issue is something tame, like dogfighting). After a few times, you realize that the point they're arguing isn't actually very interesting or amusing anymore and you'd rather pick out odd phrases and yell them over and over with your friends at poker night.
Mike Gundy's rant is great because while he might not be right, in a dry moral-rational sense, he is doing the right thing. Sticking up for his players, taking the focus off them and putting on himself, defending their performance, challenging perceived unwarrented comments about his quarterback, those are all respectable things to do. After going back and forth on issues like how much criticism is fair to level at college-age players or to what degree can coaches take on columnists, the only conclusion you're really left with is that "I'M FORTY, I'M A MAN" is just oodles of fun to scream at someone.
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Missed that one right off the bat, "This was brought to me by a mother...of children."
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