Just two wins shy of 800 career victories, Eddie Sutton is back coaching college basketball. He will take over at San Francisco after coach Jesse Evans stepped down:"Coach Jessie Evans has requested a leave of absence for the remainder of the basketball season," USF athletic director Debra Gore-Mann said in a statement. "I have approved his request. Eddie Sutton has agreed to serve as interim head coach, effective immediately and for the remainder of the 2007-08 season. I [or someone from the USF athletic administrative staff] will be traveling with the team as much as possible for the immediate future to lend my support to the student-athletes and to assist interim coach Sutton in any way I can."
Sutton comes back to coaching trailing just Bobby Knight in wins among active coaches. As for his little drinking problem that saw him get into a drunk driving accident in his final season at Oklahoma State?
"I'm physically in good health," Sutton said, adding that his drinking problem is a thing of the past. "I feel very strong."
"As a recovering alcoholic you have to work on that every day," he added. "I still attend meetings."
USF is currently 4-8, good for seventh place in the eight-team West Coast Conference.
