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<!-- end mod-article-title --><!-- begin story body --><!-- template inline -->Oklahoma State and Georgia will not be shaking hands at midfield prior to their game Saturday, in part because Cowboys coach Mike Gundy fears provoking an incident that can't be controlled.
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"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."
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First, I was going to make some comment about coaches not being in control of their team. Then I remembered UGA/UF year-before-last, and was going to make a comment about coaches who are in control of their team. I think I'll just say that coaches sure aren't what they used to be.
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<!-- end mod-article-title --><!-- begin story body --><!-- template inline -->Oklahoma State and Georgia will not be shaking hands at midfield prior to their game Saturday, in part because Cowboys coach Mike Gundy fears provoking an incident that can't be controlled.
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"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."
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First, I was going to make some comment about coaches not being in control of their team. Then I remembered UGA/UF year-before-last, and was going to make a comment about coaches who are in control of their team. I think I'll just say that coaches sure aren't what they used to be.
