Oklahoma State Cowboy Coach Steve Lutz At Big 12 Basketball Media Day

Oklahoma State Cowboys Coach Steve Lutz Media Day Press Conference

STEVE LUTZ: My first general comment is I'm really disappointed Pistol Pete did not come up with me on the stage. That really hurt my feelings. Happy to be here. Thanks for sticking around. I anticipated an empty galley as I got here, as it's towards the end of the day. But really excited to be here. Really excited to be a part of Big 12. Obviously I've been doing this for a long time and to be able to compete against some of the guys who are in this league who obviously are the best coaches in the country is really, really exciting to me. And restoring Cowboy basketball to where it once was is really, really exciting for me and for our staff.

On non-conference scheduling this season

STEVE LUTZ: Yeah, a lot of our non-conference scheduling was completed prior to my arrival. Obviously we have the Bedlam Series already built in there, back end of a contract on Tulsa, back end of a contract with Southern Illinois Carbondale. The Charleston Classic was already done prior to my arrival. So really I did not have a whole lot of opportunity to put the schedule together. I got a couple guarantee games in there and added a couple scrimmages or charity games, those sorts of things. Really I didn't have much to do there. With the Big 12 being as many games as it is, when you walk into a job and they've already got contracts, you just don't have much to do.