In the more than three decades he worked as men’s golf coach at Oklahoma State, results were the unflinching measure of the world according to Mike Holder. If you played for Coach Holder, you could put in all the time and effort you wanted to in practice. Ultimately, though, if it didn’t translate to the course and improved results, it only meant you needed to put in more time and effort in practice.
Not surprisingly, such a mindset is among the central tenets in how Holder has done business as the athletic director at Oklahoma State since leaving coaching to take that job in 2005. And thus the news out of Stillwater, Okla., today—that Holder’s handpicked successor, Mike McGraw, just the third man to oversee the program in its history, has been let go as men’s coach—came down to a cold, calculated, unflinching bottom line.
The results lately from the OSU men’s …