Mike Gundy talks Barry Sanders memories ahead of OSU statue unveiling

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STILLWATER, Okla. — Oklahoma State caput shot manager Mike Gundy shared his thoughts connected Cowboy fable Barry Sanders connected Monday up of the Hall of Fame moving backmost getting a statue this weekend.

Sanders played astatine OSU from 1986-88, winning the Heisman trophy successful 1988 successful 1 of the top single-season performances successful assemblage shot history.

He earned aggregate unanimous first-team All-American honors earlier going connected to a Pro Football Hall of Fame vocation successful the NFL.

"He's the top moving backmost to ever play assemblage football," Gundy said Monday.

"If you conscionable deliberation backmost to the effect that he's had connected this diversion section and this university, helium deserves what's going to instrumentality spot connected Saturday."

Sanders ranks 2nd all-time connected the Cowboys rushing touchdown database and sixth all-time successful rushing yards.

He near OSU aft his inferior year, getting selected 3rd wide successful the 1989 NFL Draft by the Detroit Lions.

"What's absorbing is, the benignant of discourtesy they person present wherever coaches cognize however to dispersed the tract and usage the 52 yards-wide and get matchups, he'd unreserved for 4,000 yards a season," Gundy said.

I ne'er get bushed of @BarrySanders stories.

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— Cayden McFarland (@caydenmc) November 8, 2021

The statue of Sanders volition beryllium unveiled extracurricular the northwest country of Boone Pickens Stadium 2 hours earlier the Cowboys instrumentality connected TCU connected Nov. 13. The unveiling ceremonial is escaped and unfastened to the public.

He'll go the 4th idiosyncratic with a statue connected the Oklahoma State campus, joining erstwhile president Henry Bennett, OSU's archetypal African-American student, Nancy Randolph Davis and benefactor Boone Pickens.

Sanders volition besides person his sanction and the No. 21 enactment successful the Cowboy Football Ring of Honor wrong the stadium astatine halftime, joining OSU teammate Thurman Thomas arsenic the archetypal 2 names successful the Ring of Honor.

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