Cowboys coach Mike Gundy has decided that his team won’t shake hands with the Georgia players at midfield before Saturday’s game. Apparently, there was some sort of heated altercation between excitable young football players Thursday night in Boise, which makes this look like a smart decision::
Oklahoma State Decides Against Pregame Handshake With Georgia
“Our first concern was [we’ll] have 115 guys out there and they’ll have 70, it just takes one guy to pop off,” Gundy said Monday at his weekly media luncheon. “Then I don’t know how you’re going to break it up. How do you control something like that?”
On Thursday, the school sent an e-mail saying it had decided against the handshake -- which is part of a sportsmanship initiative coming from the American Football Coaches Association -- “after much deliberation among our coaching staff.”
The decision not to shake hands was thrust back into the spotlight in the aftermath of Thursday’s Oregon-Boise State game, when Ducks running back LeGarrette Blount punched Boise State defensive end Bryan Hout in the face after Hout said something to Blount when the teams met at midfield after the Broncos’ 19-8 win.
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