We want to thank Valero for your support and all you do for college football. I'll turn it over to you for some opening comments.ĬOACH GUNDY: On behalf of President Hargis and the athletic director Mike Holder, our football team, and Oklahoma State University, we're very excited to be here. Of his six bowl wins, one came here in 2010 here at the Valero Alamo Bowl.Ĭoach Gundy, on behalf of the Valero Alamo Bowl, we're thrilled to welcome you and the Cowboys back to San Antonio. The 2016 Valero Alamo Bowl will be the 11th straight bowl game as the head coach. This year was Oklahoma State's seventh nine-plus win season in the past nine years. He boasts a record of 103-50 while at the helm. This is Coach Gundy's 12th season as the head coach of the Cowboys. The 2016 Valero Alamo Bowl features two outstanding universities with two tremendous football coaches. I'll turn it over to you to introduce the coaches.ĭERRICK FOX: How about another round of applause. Thank you to everyone who contributes to the success of the Valero Alamo Bowl each year, the city of San Antonio, these two great schools, and most importantly the fans who travel by the thousands from across the country to support these teams.ĭerrick, we're certainly looking forward to another exciting bowl season. In addition to all the excitement going on inside the Alamodome on game day, we hope the fans have the opportunity to enjoy all that our city has to offer for the holidays during bowl week. We're proud to support the Valero Alamo Bowl and its mission to promote higher education while providing an economic boost to the city of San Antonio. This will mark our 15th year as the title sponsor. On behalf of Valero, I'd like to express how excited we are to be part of what should be a fantastic football game between these two top-15 schools. So please join me in welcoming Gary and thanking him for his title sponsorship and Valero's title sponsorship and promotion of our bowl game. We're joined this morning by Gary Simmons, the Valero senior vice president of marketing and strategy. We're very proud to have them and thankful for our Valero title sponsor to promote all of this. This is going to be a great game between some very exciting especially offenses - I'm sure they'll argue that defense is the key. Three years ago, with the help of our title sponsor, Valero, we had the prescient idea of promoting a contract with the Big 12 and the PAC-12 conferences, which have for the last three years resulted in top-15 matchups, last year one of the most exciting in bowl history.
It's what a lot of the media are calling a must-watch bowl game this season. We're excited, very excited, for this matchup. On behalf of the Valero Alamo Bowl, I'd like to welcome Coach Mike Gundy and Coach Mike MacIntyre. We're pleased to have some very distinguished guests with us here today. LAMONT JEFFERSON: Thank you all for joining us here today for the Valero Alamo Bowl Golf Classic, on a perfect day for golf, of course. Lamont, if you could kick off the press conference. Today for the press conference, I'm joined by Valero Alamo Bowl chairman Lamont Jefferson, our president and CEO Derrick Fox, on the end we have Valero's Gary Simmons, and the two head coaches from the participating universities, Mike Gundy from Oklahoma State and Coach MacIntyre from Colorado.
We're proud to announce we're going to have one winner from every public San Antonio high school and established private school. This year we're announcing the winnings on scholarships December 14th. Proceeds from today's event will benefit the Valero Alamo Bowl Scholarship Fund. On behalf of the Valero Alamo Bowl, welcome to today's press conference here in San Antonio. Lamont Jefferson Mike MacIntyre Mike Gundy Derrick Fox Gary Simmons VALERO ALAMO BOWL: COLORADO VS OKLAHOMA STATE
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