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What did you Arkansas, Kentucky fans think about ESPN's documentary on Sutton?
Posted on 6/30/20 at 5:02 pm
Posted on 6/30/20 at 5:02 pm
I have to tip my hat to the family on being so open about his drinking problem. I had heard talk in the day that he drank,but in the 80s half the SEC football and basketball coaches were big drinkers. Shocking how Rex Chapman talked about how out of it he was in the 1986-7 season.
Sounded like a pretty good guy all around,though. Glad he got to have some big years at Okla State.
Sounded like a pretty good guy all around,though. Glad he got to have some big years at Okla State.
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Posted on 6/30/20 at 5:13 pm to I-59 Tiger
I cannot wait for the documentaries to come out about Majors, Dye, and all those boys.
The 80s were a crazy time for the SEC
The 80s were a crazy time for the SEC
Posted on 6/30/20 at 5:21 pm to I-59 Tiger
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Sounded like a pretty good guy all around,though. Glad he got to have some big years at Okla State.
Sutton was a tremendous coach at Arkansas but the strain of working for Frank Broyles just ate away at him. Which is easy to understand. Broyles was a legendary AD but he was extremely hard to work for if you were a football or basketball coach.
Posted on 6/30/20 at 5:30 pm to I-59 Tiger
Have it recorded. Watching tonight but heard it was really good.
Posted on 6/30/20 at 6:24 pm to I-59 Tiger
During his time at Arkansas...
Posted on 6/30/20 at 7:06 pm to tkeefer
Posted on 6/30/20 at 7:24 pm to I-59 Tiger
Have not seen it yet although I've heard it was really well done.
Posted on 6/30/20 at 8:01 pm to Arksulli
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Sutton was a tremendous coach at Arkansas but the strain of working for Frank Broyles just ate away at him. Which is easy to understand. Broyles was a legendary AD but he was extremely hard to work for if you were a football or basketball coach.
oh for the love of god.....eddy sutton was a drunk, patsy sutton was a drunk. they were sitting at a table in a hotel during the great alaska shoot out when eddy tells off frank in front of Barbra and frank broyles sitting with john russell (russell chevrolet) and his wife, that he was upset that he wasn't being paid more than ken hatfield. another p.o.s that you bumbkins just love and after he told off frank, patsy got up and added an exclamation point!
by the way his last year i saw him after a little rock game when he almost drove his riverside motors provided 450 sl convertible into the wall of the cabaret, stumble out so drunk that he ran into a wall and almost knocked himself out.
let me help you country mice understand something without broyles arkansas athletics is nothing.
Posted on 6/30/20 at 8:51 pm to walley tux
I think Broyles offered to help Sutton with his drinking but he refused.
Posted on 6/30/20 at 9:13 pm to I-59 Tiger
As a Hog fan,I appreciate what Eddie did in creating a solid basketball program.Coach Broyles made an excellent choice and together they made us a basketball power.
I will always thank Eddie for what he did here no matter how he left.
I will always thank Eddie for what he did here no matter how he left.
Posted on 6/30/20 at 9:26 pm to walley tux
Broyles was a moron AD.
Posted on 6/30/20 at 9:36 pm to TFH
Eddie had an affinity for young poon-tang. When I was a freshman at the UA, first semester in 1978 (yes, I'm 59), we used to sit outside the Kappa Sig house in the evenings and more times than not, a Pom Pom girl, later a cub reporterette at KATV in Little Rock named Kelly Minton would be driving Eddie down Dickson St right by all of us. I suppose he'd rather be seen as banging an 18 year old girl than getting a DWI. Just guessing. But dude did have a fling with a pretty young thang that semester. 
Posted on 6/30/20 at 9:53 pm to TFH
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Broyles was a moron AD.
and you've done so much for arkansas athletics and you've been a season ticket holder since when?
Posted on 6/30/20 at 11:23 pm to I-59 Tiger
I enjoyed it, but I thought they could have spent more time on his time at Arkansas. That was when he was at his best and it would have highlighted why he's long been considered a HOF coach by many.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 12:10 am to TFH
quote:yeah——— the coaches he hired only won 40 or so national championships.
Broyles was a moron AD.
McDonnell, Harter, Nolan all elite coaches picked by Broyles
Speaking of Nolan, thank god the drunk Sutton crawled to Kentucky otherwise we wouldn’t have won a national championship.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 12:24 am to hilltophog
I havent seen it yet but hopefully someone uploads it online soon.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 4:29 am to dchog
It was great being a hogfan during eddie's time.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 8:36 am to redeye
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but I thought they could have spent more time on his time at Arkansas
Totally agree. Hardly mentioned the '78 Final Four. Honestly they could have touched on his 1974 Creighton team more. They gave eventual runner-up Marquette their only home loss that year.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 9:32 am to I-59 Tiger
So the money fell out of a fed ex package 
Posted on 7/1/20 at 11:51 am to Caughtthat4ironflush
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Eddie had an affinity for young poon-tang. When I was a freshman at the UA, first semester in 1978 (yes, I'm 59), we used to sit outside the Kappa Sig house in the evenings and more times than not, a Pom Pom girl, later a cub reporterette at KATV in Little Rock named Kelly Minton would be driving Eddie down Dickson St right by all of us. I suppose he'd rather be seen as banging an 18 year old girl than getting a DWI. Just guessing. But dude did have a fling with a pretty young thang that semester.
I don't think that's much of a secret.
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