He's a solid coach, and it looks as if OKSt learned after playing hardball with Brad Underwood, who jumped to Illinois (and a 1 seed this year) as a result.
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
Boynton is proving to be a pretty good coach. OSU is smart to hang on to him. He still has a ways to go to be in the league of Self, but he is on a great trajectory.
Don't worry about the mules, just load the wagon!!