Sutton Is Back in Coaching

Eddie Sutton, out of basketball for a year after his forced resignation at Kentucky, was hired as the Oklahoma State coach Wednesday.

The board of regents met for almost 90 minutes and voted, 7-1, to hire Sutton as the school’s 16th basketball coach. The only dissenter, John Montgomery, said he had no problem with Sutton, but thought the search process was not as thorough as it could have been.

The vote came shortly after university President John Campbell spoke in favor of Sutton, an Oklahoma State graduate who played for the Cowboys in the late 1950s.

He recommended that Sutton be hired with an annual salary of $85,000 and that a five-year contract be drawn up.