Tyler Summitt out after making Baby Techster

I think that it's awkwardly written, but I think her point isn't that it reflects poorly on Pat, but more that he's a disgrace because of all his mother tried to achieve for women in sports.

 

Still a terrible take.

 

Well, La Tech, this is what you can get when you offer your head coaching job to a 23-year-old with nearly no experience solely because of his last name.

 

One of my favorite photos, which I will never look at the same way again.

 

"Mama, there goes that man..."

 

Kid goes straight for the hole, doesn't he?

 

Not defending what he did, but what moron though it was a good idea to give the car keys of a program that's won national titles to a 25-year-old boy? I don't care who his mother was.

 

Might want to check how old mom was when she took over at UT.

 

Shows up at women's basketball house like:

 

That was a different time and mindset in college athletics. In most cases, women's sports were on campus just because they had to be. ADs didn't want to deal with them, so the coaches were whoever an athletic department could find, sometimes.

You're a volleyball coach? That's sort of like basketball. You're a basketball coach now.

That was pretty much the situation at a school where I used to work.

Now, there's (relatively) big money in some women's sports, so a university can't just hand the reins to whoever happens to be walking by the gym that day.

 

The idea that a 25-year-old is a "boy" and thus shouldn't be expected not to collosally fuck things up is what I was referring to. That's a cop-out.

 

From Pat Summitt's wiki page. The two eras are like comparing apples to boulders.

Just before the 1974–75 season, with women's college basketball still in its infancy and not yet an NCAA-sanctioned sport, 22-year-old Summitt became a graduate assistant at the University of Tennessee, and was named head coach of the Lady Vols after the previous coach suddenly quit. Summitt earned $250 monthly and washed the players' uniforms - uniforms purchased the previous year with proceeds from a donut sale. Summitt recalled that era of women's basketball during a February 2009 interview with Time Magazine. "I had to drive the van when I first started coaching," Summitt said. "One time, for a road game, we actually slept in the other team's gym the night before. We had mats, we had our little sleeping bags. When I was a player at the University of Tennessee–Martin, we played at Tennessee Tech for three straight games, and we didn't wash our uniforms. We only had one set. We played because we loved the game. We didn't think anything about it."