STILLWATER — With his hands tucked into the pockets of his Oklahoma State hoodie, Mike Boynton stood near an inflatable tunnel just off Eddie Sutton Court, his head and the New York Yankees hat atop it pointed downward. The Gallagher-Iba Arena crowd waited to cheer a basketball coach who a year earlier it doubted and dismissed.
As Boynton lifted his head and began his walk to midcourt during OSU's Homecoming & Hoops basketball tip-off event last month, Jay-Z's “Public Service Announcement” blasted, and out came a lyric that fittingly described the moment for a man who went from Brooklyn to Stillwater
“Allow me to reintroduce myself.