Players at Oklahoma State got paid for performance. Does that make you mad? Or does it make you mad that it makes other people mad?
Mike Gundy.
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Les Miles.
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Sports Illustrated this morning launched the first of a five-part series of investigative reports on the Oklahoma State football program by reporters George Dohrmann and Thayer Evans. This installment is about players being paid under the table during the reigns of coaches Les Miles and Mike Gundy, with subsequent reports planned about academic fraud, players smoking weed, and campus "hostesses" having sex with recruits. The details of today's report are familiar from past scandals: assistant coaches and ardent fans ("boosters," to use the common but humorously 1950s-sounding term) handing out cash to top players and hooking them up with no-show jobs.