Can you feel it? That buzz tiptoeing around your brain isn’t Mike Gundy talking defensive end strategy at spring ball today. No, it’s Mike Boynton — miraculously? — nearly guiding a Big 12 basketball team to a conference win for every scholarship player he ended the season with. The Pokes finished 5-13 in the conference this year, but it was about the most optimistic way you could finish 5-13 in the Big 12.
Some caveats before we get to the good stuff:
• I know 5-13 is neither good nor acceptable.
• I know that part of the reason he had so few scholarship players is his own fault for recruiting or bringing in guys who couldn’t walk the straight and narrow.