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Name recognition (and Sidney Moncrief) help Oral Roberts land latest recruit
Published: 10/31/2012 2:16 PM
Last Modified: 10/31/2012 2:16 PM

Eddie Sutton has been retired from coaching ever since the brief farewell fling he had at the University of San Francisco in 2008.

Think the Sutton name still has some currency in the basketball world? It paid off when Oral Roberts University got its latest men’s basketball commitment.

Scott Sutton is, of course, the men's head basketball coach at ORU and one of his assistants is younger brother Sean Sutton. Their father is Eddie Sutton, who coached at Creighton, Arkansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma State and (for a few months) San Francisco.

ORU’s latest pledge came from Dederick Lee, a combo guard from Clarksville, Ark., who once was committed to Arkansas.

Lee committed on his father’s 42nd birthday. I had a phone conversation with the father (Frederick Lee) to talk about the commitment. I told the dad (before knowing his age) that he was probably too young to remember when Eddie Sutton coached at Arkansas. And the dad unleashed a you’ve-got-to-be-kidding laugh before telling this story:

Frederick Lee said his sister lives in Dallas. She had a conversation with with Sidney Moncrief, who was a star player for Sutton at Arkansas in the 1970s. She told Moncrief which schools were recruiting Dederick. According to Frederick, Moncrief told her Dederick needs to go to ORU because that would allow him to be coached by people in the Sutton family tree.

Moncrief was one of Sutton’s Arkansas “triplets” alongside Marvin Delph and Ron Brewer. For what it’s worth, Frederick said he knows the other triplets, too. Credit Moncrief with one last assist.


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207869 (4 months ago)
You should NEVER talk to parents of student-athletes, don't you know that by now. OFF LIMITS!!!
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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. Since 2001, he has been honored more than 30 times in Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists contests for sports reporting, sports columns and sports features. He is the Oklahoma State football beat writer and the Oral Roberts basketball beat writer. In 2007, he wrote a book about OSU football with former Cowboy coach Pat Jones.

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