Kentucky basketball coach Joe B. Hall returned to his hometown of Cynthiana for a celebration of him
Eddie Sutton resigned as the University of Kentucky’s basketball coach as an alternative to being fired. Swathed in scandal so severe that the NCAA pondered imposing its “death penalty,” Sutton’s UK tenure ended with the school’s first losing season since 1927 and was followed by three years of probation.
That Sutton could overcome all that to earn enshrinement in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, and this after six failed attempts as a finalist, is a reminder that a man is more fairly judged by his body of work than by when he hits bottom.