The average tenure of a college football head coach is less than four years, which makes what Mike Gundy has accomplished at Oklahoma State all the more remarkable.
A historically underperforming program, Gundy has brought unprecedented consistency to Stillwater, and he’s done it by adapting his system and coaching style to the players on each team as he enters his 20th season in charge of the program.
Gundy and his Oklahoma State Cowboys coaching staff have their team looking as good as it ever has, with hopes of taking them to a Big 12 Title and beyond.
Oklahoma State Cowboys Coaching Staff
Head Coach, Mike Gundy
Mike Gundy might be as well known for what he does off the field as his success on the sidelines. From his viral rant to his candid comments about Name, Image, and Likeness, Gundy isn’t afraid to tell people how he feels. And it works for him.
Gundy hasn’t had a losing season in the last 18 years at Oklahoma State after his first season in charge of the progam got off to a slow start. In a world of instability, Gundy has created a consistent culture and staff, which has been a huge part of his success.
Gundy is a Poke through and through. After playing quarterback at Oklahoma State, Gundy immediately became a quarterbacks coach and then a receivers coach for the Cowboys in the early 1990s. He spent just five years away from the program, first at Baylor and then at Maryland, before returning to Stillwater in 2001.
Gunday was offensive coordinator from 2001-04 before he was promoted to head coach in 2005, a role he still holds as the longest-tenured FBS head coach.
Offensive Coordinator/Associate Head Coach/Receivers, Kasey Dunn
Kasey Dunn is Gundy’s right-hand man. Since joining the Cowboys in 2011, Dunn has worn many hats, culminating with his promotion to offensive coordinator in 2020. He’s been an associate head coach since 2019 and is almost as synonymous with the Oklahoma State program as Gundy.
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Dunn started at Idaho in 1991 before bouncing around the West Coast and coaching both sides of the ball. He had a brief stint as a running backs coach with the Seattle Seahawks before returning to the college game and finally landing with the Cowboys.
Defensive Coordinator, Bryan Nardo
Bryan Nardo is one of the shortest-tenured coaches on the Pokes’ staff, having moved to Stillwater in 2023. He started at Ohio in 2008 but has spent most of his time at the FCS and Division II levels.
He was most recently at Gannon, where he helped the Division II Golden Knight defense allow its fewest total yardage in over 20 years.
Co-Defensive Coordinator/Linebackers, Joe Bob Clements
Joe Bob Clements is another long-time Oklahoma State assistant, having been with Gundy in Stillwater since 2013. He was the defensive line coach for his first nine years with the program but moved to linebackers in 2022.
When Nardo joined the staff last year, Clements became his co-defensive coordinator, a title he’s kept this season. He has coached at Kansas, Kansas State, and San Diego State.
Offensive Line, Charlie Dickey
After over 25 years of Power Four offensive line coaching experience, Dickey moved to Oklahoma State via Kansas State in 2019.
What was impressive in Gundy’s luring of Dickey away from the Cowboys’ rival is that Dickey had a co-offensive coordinator in Manhattan. Despite being with the Cowboys for almost six years, Dickey isn’t close to being one of the longest-tenured assistants under the longtime head coach.
Quarterbacks, Tim Rattay
While Gundy often works directly with his quarterbacks, it’s Tim Rattay who is the official quarterbacks coach, and he brings a lot of experience to the position.
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Rattay came to Stillwater in 2020 after a stint as the quarterbacks coach with Washington’s NFL team. He was a Louisiana Tech assistant for eight years before that, first coaching receivers then moving to quarterbacks.
Running Backs, John Wozniak
While John Wozniak had a ton of experience when he came to Oklahoma State in 2017, most of it was on the special teams side of things. Now, he’s a veteran running back coach on the Cowboys’ staff.
Wozniak coached all over the south from the early 2000s to 2017, including stops at Memphis, Alabama, and Southern Miss. Now, he gets to coach one of the nation’s top running backs in Ollie Gordon II.
Tight Ends/Fullbacks, Jason McEndoo
John McEndoo has had very few stops in his coaching career. After coaching high school for three seasons, he moved to Montana State as an offensive line coach and was there for 12 years.
In 2015, he moved to Oklahoma State, where he’s been ever since. He only started coaching tight ends and fullbacks in 2023.
Defensive Line, Paul Randolph
Shockingly, the Cowboys have a new position coach, but Paul Randolph certainly isn’t green.
Randolph played for 10 years in the Canadian Football League before becoming a college defensive line coach in 1998. He’s made a ton of stops, usually coaching the defensive line with a few defensive coordinator roles sprinkled throughout.
Most recently, Randolph was the defensive line coach at Indiana.
Corners/Defensive Pass Game Coordinator, Tim Duffie
Tim Duffie is a longtime defensive backs coach in the college game. After starting at UTEP and staying there from 2000-07 (with a brief break for a Minority Fellowship with the Detroit Lions), he moved to Colorado State and then Wake Forest before landing in Stillwater in 2013. He was originally safeties coach with the Cowboys before moving to corners in 2015.
Safeties, Dan Hammerschmidt
Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but Dan Hammerschmidt has been with the Cowboys’ coaching staff for a long time — 10 years to be exact.
Hammerschmidt was a safety at Colorado State but coached receivers and quarterbacks in his 12 years with the Rams. He actually didn’t switch back to the defensive side of the ball until Gundy hired him in 2015.
Kickers/Punters, Sean Snyder
Sean Snyder is the newest coach on staff, having joined the Cowboys this offseason after a year as a special assistant to Lance Leipold at Kansas.
Snyder is a long-time special teams coordinator who spent nearly 30 years at Kansas State, where he was a punter in the early 1990s.
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