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Run the shepherd and the flock
Published: 6/25/2007 11:43 AM
Last Modified: 6/25/2007 11:43 AM

If Oklahoma State basketball player Obi Muonelo gets some sort of in-house punishment for his underage arrest in a Stillwater bar, he shouldn't have to run bleachers alone.
The arresting officer indicated that he went to the bar because underage student-athletes have been sneaking in with the help of older teammates.
In the grand scheme of things, Muonelo did not commit the crime of the century. But the troubling thing is this: Older players should know better than to be an accessory. Older players are supposed to lead the way, but this game of follow the leader is no good.
If OSU wants to get back to the NCAA Tournament, the Cowboys have to start doing things the right way on and off the court beginning right now.




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T Bone (6 years ago)

Seems like Sutton needs to severely dicipline players that do stupid things
I do have to agree that young men like to do stupid things.. That is; sneaking into a movie theatre, underage drinking, driving a car reckessly etc. As I understand it, coaches at Duke, North Caroline and former OSU coaches believed in strict dicipline.for team violations. Sutton probably will do the same. Needs to make believers of his basketball team.
Jimmie Tramel (6 years ago)
I don't think any of us want to be remembered for the goofy things we did when we were young, present company included, but I bet Sean Sutton is better equipped to drop the hammer on foul play this season since he now has enough bodies that he can use the bench as a motivator for miscreants.
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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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