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Sean Feels Your Pain
Published: 3/14/2007 8:21 AM
Last Modified: 3/14/2007 8:21 AM

Former University of Tulsa football coach Dave Raders insisted no one was more disappointed, and understood the unrest among fans, than he did during the football drought at TU.
Well, the same is true for current Oklahoma State coach Sean Sutton.
Like Rader with TU football, Sutton was a part of the success of OSU basketball as both a player and coach.
Rader couldn't stop the down turn of the TU football program and was eventually forced out.
Sutton, much like Rader, knows exactly what needs to be done. Getting it done is now the key for Sutton.
The disaster of a season that ended with a loss to marist in the National Invitation Tournament will haunt Sutton throughout the offseason.
He knows better than anyone. His first season was unacceptable. He would be the first to admit it.
In fact, he did just that after the loss to Marist.
In a candid interview with radio commentator Tom Dirato, Sutton admitted he made a lot of mistakes and that the recently completed season was not what OSU fans deserve.
He told the radio audience during the post-game show on Tuesday night that he expects OSU to be back where fans expect by next season.
Just in case there are any questions, that would be Big 12 contender and NCAA Touranment.
Sutton's father Eddie revived the OSU basketball program. Sean was a big part of that success and deserved the chance, despite zero head coaching experience, to follow his father as head coach.
However, Sutton knows the OSU fans also deserve a large amount of credit for the success, too.
OSU fans have provided the Cowboys with deluxe facilities, virtually unlimited resources and made Gallagher-Iba Arena among the top handful of college basketball arenas in the country.
Yes, Eddie Sutton put OSU back on the basketball map. He deserves a lot of credit.
However, the level OSU basketball reached couldn't have been achieved without the loyalty and desire of OSU fans.
They wanted a return to basketball glory as much as Eddie Sutton and helped him get it back.
As a result, those fans deserve better. Sean Sutton knows it.




Reader Comments 6 Total
Joe Ragsdale (6 years ago)
John: there is only one thing that allows a coach to command his players....playing time. If a coach knows he has no chance to put a player on the bench until he does what the coach wants, then the player can take total advantage of the situation. It was obvious that Boggan was selfish and Monds played with little or no inspiration since January. Without Senior leadership and without leverage of putting these players on the bench, Sean was doomed. What he did against Marist, he should have done at Colorado.
Laura (6 years ago)
Use spell check the next time you write an article!
rick spaulding (6 years ago)
BRING EDDIE BACK!
Michael Levy (6 years ago)
What is the point to the NIT tournament? So if you win it, does that make the 65th best team in the country? Who cares?
cTDoCFTxtSDNonUaS (5 years ago)
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