You got to love Pat Summit...
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A lot of the players have been raised by their mothers. The most important adult in a lot of black player's lives and often the only ones to bring order into their lives have been women, be it teacher, mother or grandmother.
There is a scene in the 4th season of The Wire where a white male teacher cannot control a classroom full of kids raised in the streets of Baltimore. Then a petite black female teacher walks in the room and everyone shuts up and does what they are supposed to. That scene made me think about women coaching men's basketball.
There is a scene in the 4th season of The Wire where a white male teacher cannot control a classroom full of kids raised in the streets of Baltimore. Then a petite black female teacher walks in the room and everyone shuts up and does what they are supposed to. That scene made me think about women coaching men's basketball.
She doesnt put up with any ******** either. She gives it to you straight, no smokescreen, no guessing what she means. I think she would be a tremendous mens coach because she knows how to motivate players with the exception of this years team, and she gets the most out of what she has. I think she is the greatest college coach, mens or womens, of all time.
Yep, this is the first time in the history of the NCAA Women's Tournament (27 years) that the Lady Vols did not make it to at least the Sweet Sixteen.
Not sure if she was ever officially offered the job, but I remember Dick Vitale saying she should be given a shot. I think it was in between Jerry Green and Buzz Peterson.
it's probably also the first time they didn't play their first 2 NCAA games at home.
Don't think it's the first time...I think they quit doing that a few years ago, but the vast majority of those 27 years they did play the first two games in K'ville.
Don't think it's the first time...I think they quit doing that a few years ago, but the vast majority of those 27 years they did play the first two games in K'ville.
but it never actually made it to a formal offer. The talk really heated up prior to and after Kevin O'Neil's time in Knoxville. I think Pat Head knew she could do nothing but hurt her legacy by leaving the women's program and probably used any talk with UT men's AD at the time to push the women's AD (they split the 2 in Knoxville) into giving her a raise.Rebels7 said:
I disagree with that statement. If she left the women's game to go to men's, yeah she could hurt her legacy if she failed, but you don't think she could gain anything by coaching men? She'd be the first to successfully make that transition and to be one of the top women's coaches of all time already would do nothing but enhance an already stellar legacy. Unless you're just assuming she would fail at coaching men, and thus saying that she knew she couldn't coach men. I'd still disagree with that. She's a hell of a coach, one of the best all time men or women, and she would succeed in whatever league she wanted to coach in from NBA down to women's YMCA leagues.
when he was at Indiana. It was probably because of him that the NCAA closed that loophole for the men's team.
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I don't doubt the women has a great knowledge for the game of basketball. However, no way she would recruit the superior talent in the men's game that she does for the Lady Vols. Therefore, she would not experience near the success in men's NCAA. Very few, if any, good recruits would want to play for a women. No matter if she is Pat Summitt or not.