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05-19-2006, 10:20 AM
Longtime Oklahoma State coach Sutton to retireESPN.com news services
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Oklahoma State basketball coach Eddie Sutton will retire this afternoon at a 3 p.m. ET press conference in Stillwater, ESPN has learned.
He will be replaced by his son, Sean Sutton, who has been head coach designate for the past several seasons.
Eddie Sutton coached OSU for 16 seasons. He also coached at Creighton, Arkansas and Kentucky. He was the first coach to take four different schools to the NCAA Tournament. He has coached in 3 Final Fours.
Sutton pleaded no contest May 5 to drunken driving charges for a traffic accident in which his SUV swerved, collided with another vehicle and then hit a tree.
Sutton, who underwent treatment for alcoholism at the Betty Ford Center in 1987 while he was coach at Kentucky, has said lingering back pain was a factor in his relapse.
"The pain at times literally has been unbearable. ... The pain was so bad that I took a lot of pain pills, but that didn't seem to work, so I succumbed to temptation and went and bought a bottle," Sutton said in a news conference five days after the accident.
Court records showed his blood alcohol concentration was 0.22, almost three times the legal limit.
Since the accident, Sutton has undergone surgery to relieve back and hip pain brought on by a pair of spills two years ago and he also went through a five-week inpatient alcohol treatment program.
Only Dean Smith (879), Adolph Rupp (876), Bob Knight (869) and Jim Phelan (830) have more career wins than Sutton.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
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Oklahoma State basketball coach Eddie Sutton will retire this afternoon at a 3 p.m. ET press conference in Stillwater, ESPN has learned.
He will be replaced by his son, Sean Sutton, who has been head coach designate for the past several seasons.
Eddie Sutton coached OSU for 16 seasons. He also coached at Creighton, Arkansas and Kentucky. He was the first coach to take four different schools to the NCAA Tournament. He has coached in 3 Final Fours.
Sutton pleaded no contest May 5 to drunken driving charges for a traffic accident in which his SUV swerved, collided with another vehicle and then hit a tree.
Sutton, who underwent treatment for alcoholism at the Betty Ford Center in 1987 while he was coach at Kentucky, has said lingering back pain was a factor in his relapse.
"The pain at times literally has been unbearable. ... The pain was so bad that I took a lot of pain pills, but that didn't seem to work, so I succumbed to temptation and went and bought a bottle," Sutton said in a news conference five days after the accident.
Court records showed his blood alcohol concentration was 0.22, almost three times the legal limit.
Since the accident, Sutton has undergone surgery to relieve back and hip pain brought on by a pair of spills two years ago and he also went through a five-week inpatient alcohol treatment program.
Only Dean Smith (879), Adolph Rupp (876), Bob Knight (869) and Jim Phelan (830) have more career wins than Sutton.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.