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Ford gets new cribs, on and off campus
Published: 8/17/2010 5:00 PM
Last Modified: 8/17/2010 5:00 PM

Former Oklahoma State basketball coach Sean Sutton made news last week, staging a Friday press conference prior to appearing before a Payne County judge. Sutton sold his Stillwater home and will live in Tulsa until he figures out his next career move.

Speaking of real estate, let’s segue to current OSU coach Travis Ford.

Ford said he has been very busy this summer (he spent 22 days on the road recruiting in July) and one of the reasons why is because he just moved into a new house.

Dumb question: Do you have a basketball goal at the house?

“There is,” Ford said. “Believe me, that was one of the first things my kids had put up. It’s outdoor. We toyed with putting an indoor court in there because my wife got tired of us playing in the kitchen. We had those two little (indoor hoops) so we could go fullcourt in the rental house we were in. She said we need to build an indoor court, but we didn’t do it. But we have a really nice outdoor court, flood lights and everything.”

Ford, entering his third season, said he is anxious to have his players visit the new home.

“We built it very team-friendly,” he said. “We have an area where they can come over and hang out and we can have recruits over and things like that. My wife has done it all. She has done just an unbelievable job of making sure every day went right. I never went out there. I would go months without going out there. Now, decorating and everything, she has just done a terrific job.”

Ford is getting new “facilities” on and off campus. The locker room at Gallagher-Iba Arena is getting an extreme makeover. Tulsa World staffer Bill Haisten, who has posted photos of the split-level (with a marble stair case) locker room on his Twitter account, described it as "just as nice for basketball as the west end zone (complex) is for football."



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Wild Man Fischer (3 years ago)
Very excited to see how Coach Ford's team does this year. Each year the team is "more" his team.
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Tulsa World sports writer Jimmie Tramel is a former class president at Locust Grove High School. He graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern State University with a journalism degree and, while attending college, was sports editor of the Pryor Daily Times. He joined the Tulsa World on Oct. 17, 1989, the same day an earthquake struck the World Series. He is the OSU basketball beat writer and a columnist and feature writer during football season. In 2007, he wrote a book about Oklahoma State football with former Cowboy coach Pat Jones.

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