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First-year Oklahoma State Cowboys coach Mike Boynton has many tough challenges ahead of him. It might be something that was left behind for him — by someone else, of all things — that might end up being his biggest hurdle.
With the FBI probing all over college basketball, and Oklahoma State having to fire an assistant coach as a direct result, many people have turned their attention toward Mike Boynton. For good reason too, as someone is expected to answer for what is happening — or have happened.
He is not worried about that, though.
“I'm following the lead of my administration here, and this was the first time we were made available,” Boynton told CBS Sports. “I haven't really thought about my job status, to be perfectly honest. I'm really focused on the team. I haven't been given any reason [to worry] about that.”
As for having to deal with media wanting to know what happened at OK State, even if under someone else's watch:
“The biggest thing for me today, to be honest, is having an opportunity to start talking about our season,” Boynton said. “But clearly this thing is going on around our program, being associated with things going around the country that are a little bit too distracting right now to that process. For people asking or wanting to know, I was shocked and found out just like everybody else did: reading it on the Internet. And as far as any timeline specific to the investigation, I don't have any comments and I can't speak to that specifically.”
As far as what he knew? Well, like every other coach in the nation, he is also a man who had no idea anything was going on.
“I never had any suspicions,” Boynton said of Evans' alleged illegal activity when he spoke to local media prior to OSU practice.
Remember, this story — not specifically this one, but all of the FBI fallout in general — is far from over.
