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"Good" help hard to find?
Published: 4/18/2007 10:42 AM
Last Modified: 4/18/2007 10:42 AM

After a second consecutive Oklahoma State basketball season ended with a first-round NIT defeat, coach Sean Sutton hinted very strongly that he is in search of a few good men.
Sutton wasn't just talking about finding basketball players. He was talking about finding players who would do the right things off the court and represent the university in stand-up fashion.
It's hard to make character judgments on someone you've never met, but Anthony Brown sounds like the kind of guy Sutton wants to bring to Stillwater.
Brown, a forward from Carl Albert State College, signed a letter of intent with the Cowboys this week. This is what Carl Albert coach Mike St. John said about Brown after the signing: "Anthony is really, really gifted offensively and he's got a great body and he's a good kid. He's a high-character guy and a good student and he will be an ambassador for their program for sure because he has been that for us the last two years."
A call was placed Tuesday to one of Brown's teammates with the intent of luring Brown to the phone. The teammate said Brown couldn't come to the phone because he was in the library during some academic work.
"I think he is a great kid and a very good student and it's just a good situation all around because he's got a chance to come in and make an immediate impact," Sutton said.
Brown returned a phone message Tuesday night. Told of the praise by Sutton and St. John, Brown talked about how he thinks maturity is one of his strong points and he talked about the importance of schoolwork. He also explained why he chose OSU over Kansas State, Nevada and Syracuse.
"Everything was nice," he said. "I liked the campus. The guys on the team were nice. They were just like me. It just felt like home."
Good guys and renegades can help win basketball games. Those aren't choir boys on most college rosters. But OSU needs a renegade-free recruiting class after the last two seasons, when suspensions and dismissals caused the Cowboys to be among the nation's most depth-shy teams. Stay tuned to see if nice guys finish better than last.



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