While many people claim to have the “No. 1 Dad,” even proclaiming so through mugs and t-shirts, former Oklahoma State coach Eddie Sutton’s sons can go even further: their dad is now a Hall of Famer.
But even after the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame called the Sutton house on April 3 to make the news official, Scott, the youngest brother, said his father was always in his -- and many other people’s -- Hall of Fame.
“It hasn’t changed obviously how I feel about him,” Scott said. “Everybody that knows him and has seen firsthand the impact that he’s had on and off the floor knows that he’s a Hall of Famer.