STILLWATER – Mike Boynton walked into the interview confident. The basketball program was thriving, excitement abounded and he had been there from the start. So when Brad Underwood left for the other side of the fence, why wouldn't Boynton get the job?
Seemed automatic to him.
Then Stephen F. Austin hired Kyle Keller.
So a year later, with Underwood gone again, Boynton walked into a Karsten Creek lodge Thursday with no pretense that he was the favorite for a job much more prestigious than what he sought in Nacogdoches, Texas.
Boynton walked out the same.