Just over one year ago, on what should have been a slow Saturday for our website, Jeff Goodman rocked our world with the news that Brad Underwood was out, just hours after his team’s dramatic, but early exit from the NCAA Tournament.
The man who claimed to have Stillwater dreams left for a Champaign budget. It was a gut punch for a program (and a fanbase) that seemed to be just catching its breath. Underwood’s supposed love affair with Oklahoma State lasted all of 362 days.
Six days later, the school announced that then-unknown (even by most of us) assistant Mike Boynton would be his mentor’s successor, and the reaction varied from “Who?