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Scott Sutton owes me money... or why he's no longer a candidate at TU
Published: 3/27/2012 7:02 PM
Last Modified: 3/27/2012 7:02 PM

Oral Roberts men's basketball coach Scott Sutton withdrew from consideration for the Tulsa job today, and I'm not happy about it.

(Read the story reported first by the World's Mike Brown here).

While the decision might cost Sutton a few hundred thousand dollars, it's going to cost me at least four or five bucks.

You see, in the Tulsa World sports department, we had a little friendly wager going about the results of the Tulsa men's basketball coaching search.

I took Scott Sutton. How confident was I? I offered my co-workers the entire field of remaining candidates. This was going to be a Tiger Woods 2000 U.S. Open type of blow out.

Obviously, that was a bad decision. I'm not sure what's worse -- having to pay up or the expressions on my gloating co-workers' faces.

So what does Sutton's decision mean? Often, these moves are preemptive strikes by coaches who aren't getting a job.

But with Tulsa still in the decision-making process by most accounts, that might not be the case here.

It could be Sutton got the feeling he was Tulsa's fall-back plan and wasn't comfortable with that.

That was the reason I put my money on Sutton from the beginning. I just felt like, at the end of the process, Sutton's winning resume was going to look better and better.

Sutton, so I thought, was always going to be around and would be the last coach standing.

Sutton still looks pretty good compared to the known candidates for the job (read Eric Bailey's Monday story on the Tulsa search here).

If you're a Tulsa fan, how do you feel about who's left?

Central Oklahoma coach Terry Evans has the Billy Tubbs seal of approval, has 15 Oklahomans on his roster, plays an up-tempo style, but has only Division II coaching experience.

Kansas assistant Danny Manning is a former NBA All-Star and NCAA champion who has the Bill Self seal of approval but no head coaching experience. Perhaps he could bring the Jayhawks to the BOK Center for a game against Tulsa next season to sweeten the pot.

Valparaiso's Bryce Drew is from a famous coaching family and is part of every NCAA men's tournament highlight reel because of his game-winning shot in 1998. But he has exactly one year of head coaching experience.

There obviously could be other candidates out there whose names haven't been mentioned. For the sake of a Tulsa fan base yearning to be energized, you have to hope so.

As for me, I'm not paying up until the Golden Hurricane call a press conference. It's not over 'til it's over, right?

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