Heady stuff for a guy who's played 13 Division I games, some of them against schools that give out scholarships. Sutton's been around. He didn't just come in off the dunk truck. Sutton has seen plenty of pan flashes, even coached a few, and he's not in the business of handing out stripes to a guy 15 minutes out of boot camp. Sutton players pay their dues.
Rookies spend a year digging out of the doghouse and reach sunlight sometime in their senior year.
Great players travel a path no different. And junior-college transfers never see that sunlight. Sutton spends a year coaching stuff out of them, then a year coaching stuff into them. But Baker is different. Thirteen games out of a Utah juco, Baker is a finished product.