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Sutton a Father Figure for Oklahoma State Players, but Also for Us as Fans

How do you sum up a life like Eddie Sutton’s in 800 or even 1,200 words? It’s an impossibility of course and maybe even patronizing to try and distill 84 years of life into a single column. And yet, the collective tributes to one of the great personalities and people in OSU history create a wonderful mosaic of someone who — at his very best — was revered within the industry in which he thrived.

But lionization within an industry rarely tells the whole story, right? Because industries are broad, we have to capture them in inhuman ways like how many games you won or how many titles you secured.