Every college sports program has its ups and downs. Its transfers and its 2-stars that turn into all-conference players. Its good losses and bad wins. Its long droughts and short apexes. Its changing of the guards and its golden eras.
This is as true of Oklahoma State as it is with Auburn and Oregon and Boston College and Georgia Tech. However, it’s also true that the first three years of the Mike Boynton era have been rather unusual.
From an FBI interjection to a global pandemic and pretty much everything you can imagine between those two incidents, the first 36 months of Boynton’s tenure have been an absolute roller coaster.