Still processing and making sense of the hire, these words popped out and explained things well.
In 1989-2005, while the basketball Cowboys averaged 23 wins and made 13 NCAA Tournament appearances, the football Cowboys were 80-110-3 and participants in only four bowl games.
Now, as Mike Gundy’s football Cowboys have achieved a national top-10 ranking in seven of the past nine seasons, totaled at least 10 wins in five of the past seven seasons and made 11 consecutive bowl appearances, Boynton inherits a damaged Oklahoma State basketball product.
Since Sutton was nudged into resigning from the OSU job 11 years ago, the Cowboys have an NCAA Tournament record of 1-6.