STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) -With the help of millions of dollars from booster T. Boone Pickens, Oklahoma State opened a sprawling new training facility before the season, complete with leather couches, hydrotherapy pools and flat-screen TVs.
Quarterback Zac Robinson never hoped to be spending so much time there.
“It’s been frustrating. I basically have stayed out of the training room my whole career up until this year, and I think I’ve gotten to know those guys down there a little too well,” said Robinson, who recovered from head and shoulder injuries only to hurt his ankle in the Cowboys’ regular-season finale.
“It’s been hard, but it’s just something you’ve got to just try to push through and I know that God has a plan and it’s all for the better. Everything happens for a reason.”
rst offensive series in a 27-0 loss at Oklahoma on Nov. 28 but played until the fourth quarter.
Robinson also missed his senior night ceremony – ending a streak of 34 straight starts – after he was knocked out in the final 2 minutes of a 24-17 win against Texas Tech five days earlier. He called the collision with Tech’s Jamar Wall “just a big train wreck.”
He had to watch a replay to see what had happened.
“I had no idea it was that bad. I knew it hurt pretty bad, but I had no idea that both guys just went flying both ways,” Robinson said.
Coach Mike Gundy said Robinson, though not completely healthy, hasn’t been limited at practice as he gets back to full speed. He estimated that Robinson could be at 100 percent by this weekend.
“I think it’s made me a lot stronger and helped me realize and appreciate what it’s like being healthy and being able just to go out every day,” said Robinson, who also struggled with a lingering leg injury during training camp.
For Robinson, the Cotton Bowl marks the end of the most prolific career for an OSU quarterback. He will leave campus as the school record-holder in passing yards, total offense and touchdown passes.
e spring to complete his degree.
“It’s kind of weird but it hasn’t really hit me that after the game, I won’t be going back to working out in the winter with all the guys. I think that will hit me after it’s over.”
Robinson’s senior class has a chance to win a 33rd game, which would put the group behind only the 1987 and 1988 Cowboys’ seniors for the most in school history.
“You don’t know how you’re going to react at the end. I’m sure it will be emotional in the locker room with a lot of the guys that you’ve played with and been with pretty much every day for five years,” said Robinson, who is 23-12 as a starter. “Hopefully I’ll just be able to not think about it then and hopefully we’ll be celebrating a victory.”
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