More Than A Championship: The 2011 Oklahoma State Cowboys
ROBERT ALLEN never has strayed far from his Oklahoma State roots. Allen has served in the media as a television sports reporter and anchor at a pair of NBC affiliated stations. He has done television play by play and color for college and high school broadcasts as well as horse racing. He has worked on projects for NBC, ESPN, and Fox Sports, among other broadcast networks. A graduate of Oklahoma State University with a degree in Radio-TV-Film News and Public Affairs, Allen also has worked in radio and writing for both magazines and the internet. He currently hosts a radio talk show for Triple Play Sports, is executive editor of Go Pokes Magazine and gopokes.com, and is the sideline reporter on the Cowboy Radio Network. He and his wife, Lynne, have been married for 30 years and have a son Zach, a former Cowboy football player that played for Mike Gundy, and daughter Kary, an OSU student that was named one of the school's Top 10 Freshmen Women in 2011. MIKE GUNDY qualifies as MR. COWBOY as he has played, coached as an assistant, and is currently the head football coach at Oklahoma State University. He will soon be the winningest football coach in OSU history. The All-State quarterback from Midwest City took his talents to OSU where, along with Thurman Thomas, Barry Sanders, Hart Lee Dykes and then head coach Pat Jones, he led OSU to two 10-win seasons and wins over West Virginia in the 1987 Sun Bowl and Wyoming in the 1988 Holiday Bowl. He is now in the Holiday Bowl Hall of Fame. He completed his college career as the all-time Big Eight leader in total offense. After serving as an assistant or a coordinator at Oklahoma State (twice), Baylor, and Maryland, Gundy was named head coach of the Cowboys in 2005. He has led Oklahoma State to two 11-win seasons and the 12-1 campaign in 2012. He was named both the Eddie Robinson and Paul (Bear) Bryant National College Coach of the Year. Gundy and his wife, Kristen, also an OSU graduate, have three sons--Gavin, Gunnar, and Gage.