{"id":4256,"date":"2017-04-11T20:49:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T01:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?p=4256"},"modified":"2017-07-08T12:35:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T17:35:23","slug":"time-for-oral-roberts-university-to-go-small-college-scott-sutton-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?p=4256","title":{"rendered":"Time for Oral Roberts University to go small college…….Scott Sutton Fired……."},"content":{"rendered":"
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ORU Head Coach Scott Sutton sits on the Golden Eagle bench with his older brother, assistant coach Sean Sutton to his left. Photo: Tulsa World<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The time has come for the Oral Roberts University’s athletic program to drop from the NCAA Division One to a lower division in college sports.\u00a0 The NCAA Division II would do nicely, and a further drop to the lower NAIA would also make sense.\u00a0 The Golden Eagles of the Tulsa based religious school need a reset for various reasons, including their new in-house regulations to recruit only “good-standing” Christian athletes.\u00a0 ORU is not going to be Division one material with regard to being competitive with other members of Division One.<\/p>\n

Head basketball coach Scott Sutton was fired this week by the ORU fathers (here here Hobby Lobby\u00a0owner David Green)\u00a0for lack of winning the past few years and not cleaning out his brother from the program.\u00a0 “Told” to get rid of his brother, assistant basketball coach Sean Sutton, former head man at Oklahoma State University, Scott Sutton\u00a0 declined.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He was fired.\u00a0 Sean’s baggage must have finally clashed with the\u00a0artsy fartsy items of the Lobby.<\/p>\n

Scott Sutton, the eighteen year head man for the school was previously\u00a0told in\u00a02013 by new ORU\u00a0President Billy Wison\u00a0 to recruit and sign only Christian athletes, which has done the past couple of years.\u00a0 This has resulted in a decline in wins for ORU.\u00a0 ORU\u2019s record was 25-8, 21-12, 23-11, 24-9, 16-15, 20-13, 19-16, 27-7 and 20-15 but over the\u00a0past four seasons, ORU went 17-16, 19-15, 14-17 and 8-22.\u00a0 Significantly, ORU is in a losing pattern and one that with a limited recruiting base dooms the program at the highest level of college basketball.<\/p>\n

If ORU wants to be respectable in sports, a drop down would put them on equal basis with other religious schools that recruit athletes with the same persuasion of moral thought.\u00a0 Schools like Oklahoma Baptist, Oklahoma Christian University, and Southern Nazarene come to mind.\u00a0 With attendance not coming close to the glory days for his school, losing will get tiring and that is never good.\u00a0 You can “expect a Miracle” in Tulsa, but right now, do not expect a win.\u00a0 Sports fans, that is the way I see it.<\/p>\n

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