Gundy's relationship with his players has become a big non-COVID sports storyESPN IMAGES
ESPN during Wednesday night's edition of "SportsCenter" with Scott Van Pelt utilized footage from a new "all-access show" that has "yet to be announced" featuring the Oklahoma State football team, according to Ben Koo of AWFUL ANNOUNCING. While the Oklahoma State series "hasn’t been announced by ESPN quite yet," it is "meant to mirror Miles To Go, an ESPN+ all access program that followed the Kansas football team last season." These type of series are "part of ESPN’s larger deal with the Big 12, which was recently expanded to ESPN+." It will be "interesting to see if ESPN does indeed wait until August to start airing episodes of the yet to be named Oklahoma State series, given the amount of interest in the program at the moment" and coach Mike Gundy’s "strained relationship with his players." For now, this is "somewhat of an odd situation for ESPN, since they have inside access to potentially one of the more significant non-COVID stories of 2020 and are sitting [on] so much access and footage." However, the network can "only squeeze out a few morsels here and there until the show is both announced and airs" (AWFULANNOUNCING.com, 6/18).
