A detail of athletic directing overlooked sometimes.
He hears what is said about him. Some of it is good. The rest of it, an overwhelming majority, has been less than friendly in the past week. As he went through them late at night, he said the most complimentary of the bunch went on to describe him as a “shriveled up, old fossil.”
That drew a smile from the Oklahoma State athletic director and hearty laugh from those in attendance at the introductory news conference for new men’s basketball coach Mike Boynton on Monday, but it undercuts the amount of flak Holder has taken not only in recent weeks, but also seemingly every time something goes awry.