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In the heat of Saturday's show of force by Tulsa police, We caught up with Owen Shroyer of the infamous InfoWars media Network. We were talking about what was happening just a few feet away from us.
A group of media reporters were confined behind a riot response squad of combined Tulsa Metro police department personnel. He was packing up his booth which had been overrun by the mob just minutes earlier. His security team had protected their booth, but he saw the reasons to remain were becoming moot. I had earlier asked his folks to keep an eye on a case of tee shirts which the OAN network had abandoned. He just needed to know what I wanted to do with the last box in his booth area. That led to a discussion of what the tee-shirts have come to represent, and Shroyer discussed his long-standing admiration for OSU Head football coach, Mike Gundy, which had vanished in the previous few days. |
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What's so sad is how Gundy effectively 'threw a fine media network under the bus and repeatedly backed over them'. At least that's what Shroyer sees is happening. Gundy seems to be a nonstop apology machine for having conservative values. If this conversion follows the common cultural narrative, it's only a matter of time before Gundy renounces conservatism itself, and lobs multiple grenades at those whom he once identified with. OAN seems to be the first victim of Gundy's self loathing. Someone needs to give Gundy a teeshirt with WWBKD inkstamped across the chest. (What would Bobby Knight Do). No one seems to have a campus ban on ESPN teeshirts, and their cultural rhetoric is massively offensive to traditional values of parents who pay for college tuitions.
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"If they can cuck Gundy, they can cuck anyone" said Owen Shroyer, if InfoWars. "I used to love Gundy, and how he stood up to the media." He referenced Gundy's "I'm A Man" press conference explosion of about 10 years ago. Now Gundy is being controlled by a student athlete who is fully calling the shots and playing up his media game. Chuba Hubbard is a legit Heisman contender. Shroyer speculates that Gundy loves his multi million dollar coaching contract and has effective handed over the team's media narrative over to his activist student athletes. Shroyer left us with the impression that he thinks the abandoned tee shirts should only be worn by real men, and Gundy is no longer one of them. If OAN wants to reclaim their case of shirts, They can ask the InfoWars crew if they know where to get them. Shroyer certainly didn't want the BLM protesters to grab them for some effigy-burning ceremony, in downtown Tulsa. Disclosure: I did see several OAN shirts around the Rally, and I believe they were part of a giveaway promotion, but somehow this case got displaced by OAN.
Bobby wasn't politically correct. But he never abandoned his own principles. Even in his elderly return to Indiana University, He was respected by the same institutions and fans who years early demanded his resignation.
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