Did Miles run this kind of offense at Okie State?

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A decade ago Mike Gundy and Josh Henson would sit in the Oklahoma State offensive meeting room and draw up plays they knew their boss would never run. That boss was Cowboys head coach Les Miles.

Henson coached tight ends and Gundy was offensive coordinator. But Miles called the shots, of which there were few downfield in an offense that had its roots in the power running game Miles learned as an offensive lineman under Bo Schembechler at Michigan.

Henson and Gundy’s ideas “would go on deaf ears with Les,” Gundy said here this week, “because it didn’t involve two tight ends and a fullback.”

Henson and Gundy weren’t alone in their thinking. Henson, now Missouri’s offensive coordinator, said part of OSU’s staff wanted more spread formations, more deep passes to stretch defenses vertically.

“We felt like we had pretty good personnel with three or four wide receivers,” Henson said. “But you have to be who you are in this job. I know that sounds so cliché, but that’s not who Les Miles was.”

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