USF Dons Have Gone from National Champs to National Chumps (Eddie Sutton)

SF Weekly ^ | 2/27/08 | Ron Russell

[GSWarrior]

It's a gloriously sunny afternoon, and Eddie Sutton has slipped away from his tomblike office at the University of San Francisco to return a phone call from the relative quiet of the lobby inside the aging War Memorial Gymnasium.

The hoopla over Sutton has masked deep discontent among influential alumni and donors of the athletics program, unhappy over the manner and timing of Evans being jettisoned, and its potential effect on important efforts to recruit top-quality basketball players to a program that is clearly faltering.

Much of that discontent centers on USF's new athletics director, Debra Gore-Mann, whose inconsistent explanations for the circumstances surrounding Evans' departure 12 games into the season, and her bringing in of Sutton, has outraged a significant portion of USF's loyal and vociferous fan base.

[GSWarrior]

A lengthy, well-researced expose about the recent hiring of Eddie Sutton at USF also sheds light into the sleazy behind-the-scenes machinations behind his hiring. Rips the athletic director and college president new ones.

A must read if you have any interest in the subject.

[My Favorite Headache]

I read the headline and said to myself “When the hell did the University of South Florida become national champs of anything other than terrorism links?”

[GSWarrior]

I think University of San Francisco has been around just a little while longer than University of South Florida.

Same school colors, tho.

[Dems_R_Losers]

Eddie Sutton is a drunk and a cheater and he is old. I cannot understand why any school would want him as their coach!

[VRWCmember]

Eddie Sutton is a drunk and a cheater and he is old.

What's your point??!