If Oklahoma State’s Mike Gundy ever wants to stop being a football coach, his next career could be as a philosopher.

His recent comments about “liberalism” and “snowflakes” touched off criticism, including the ultra-liberal Washington Post.

 When asked about football players who transfer to another college because they don’t get to play as much as they want, here’s what Gundy said:

“I think we live in a world where people are non-committal. We allow liberalism to say, ‘Hey, I can just do what I want and I don’t have to really be tough and fight through it.’ You see that with young people because it’s an option they’re given. We weren’t given that option when we were growing up. We were told what to do and did it the right way, you go figure it out on your own. In the world today, there’s a lot of entitlement. I’m a firm believer in the snowflake. I think it’s setting there. And I’m not talking about Thabo. Thabo and I have had multiple good talks. I’m talking about every millennial young person, Generation Z, I think is what they call them. That’s the world we live in because if they say, ‘Well, it’s a little bit hard,’ then we say, ‘OK, well let’s go try something else,’ versus, ‘Hey, let’s bear down and let’s fight through this.’ You see a lot of that nowadays.

“And that doesn’t have anything to do with Thabo or (Jalen) McCleskey or anybody that’s been on the portal here, that’s just in general in society, even if you’re working down here at Wal-mart. Your boss gets after you and tells you that you’re not doing a good job, you may go home and cry and tell your mom. Your mom may say it’s OK. It’s just kind of the facts of life, the world we live in today.

“Don’t get me on politics.”

Maybe Gundy should run for political office when he’s finished coaching.