When Mike Boynton learned of the Cowboys’ recent NCAA sanctions, he wanted to be where his players found out from, so he started calling.
The first player Boynton said he called was Cade Cunningham, the No. 1 recruit in the 2020 class. Cunningham met with the local media for the first time Wednesday via teleconference where he explained what those days were like between the announcement of the sanctions and when he announced his continued commitment to Oklahoma State.
“The craziest thing about the call was the way he approached it to me,” Cunningham said. “I don’t think there’s any other coach, I mean, I might be wrong, I can’t say, nobody else has been in that situation, but there’s not a lot of coaches that I could think of that would tell a recruit, ‘Do what you want to do.