breaking news; Mike Gundy’ scared to death by south dakota state jackrabbits……

With a team as veteran as OSU this season, it could be easy to do too much, but it sounds like Gundy and his staff are focusing on the fundamentals heading into what looks to be a promising season.

All offseason Gundy has talked about the importance of being a sound tackling team. He credited some of his defense’s early season struggles last season to not tackling as much in camp. To remedy that, he said this camp has been much more physical.

As basic as tackling sounds for a defense, Gundy said the offense — supplied with myriad experienced linemen — has worked the most on the simple (sounding) act of blocking.

“There’s been so many changes with the technical side of football that a lot of times coaches are coaching too much instead of just getting good at a few things like blocking and tackling, which is what the game originated with,” Gundy said. “And I feel like that we’re better in those two areas because we’ve really talked about it, coached it. Most of the time the things that you talked about and coached are what you’re actually gonna improve on. Everything we do in life is that way — even football. We’ve improved in those two areas.”