Interesting sidebar about Tyler Summitt

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Lady Techster fans have been discussing Tyler Summitt's just announced salary on the latechbbb.com forum. All comments were favorable that $175K (starting, with increases and performance bonuses) was appropriate, given his upside and considerable reputation.

When someone jokingly posted "he's too young to have a large reputation," poster Dawg06 replied with this interesting factoid:

"Going by number of twitter followers, Tyler would rank as the...
#22 college football coach
#9 college men's basketball coach
#2 college women's basketball coach (Well, that's what he actually is.)
#1 college baseball coach

I think it's safe to say he has a large reputation."

Interesting... and we know he's built those numbers himself--he's had no graduate assistant with the assigned title of Coach's Ghost-tweeter. Time will tell whether that following translates into top-level signees, TV ratings for Lady Techster games, or increased sales of LaTech merchandise. Whatever, it ain't bad!

Wonder where our staff ranks in twitterdom?
 
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bamacheats said:
So you care a great deal? Why? Because I could NOT care less.
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Sorry Mr. Grammar Police......I was in a hurry when I posted. I promise I will NOT do it again. I do NOT know how volnation would be able to survive without someone as perfect as you. :bow2:
 
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ric1958 said:
Sorry Mr. Grammar Police......I was in a hurry when I posted. I promise I will NOT do it again. I do NOT know how volnation would be able to survive without someone as perfect as you. :bow2:
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ric1958 said:
Sorry Mr. Grammar Police......I was in a hurry when I posted. I promise I will NOT do it again. I do NOT know how volnation would be able to survive without someone as perfect as you. :bow2:
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Remove that stick very slowly from your anus or else you'll get splinters.

Just bustin your chops. It's a common southern incorrect expression.
 
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I promise I will NOT do it again less.

Hey--I'm a dinosaur too who couldn't care less about twitter, facebook, or any media that claims to be "social" but doesn't involve eye-to-eye contact. (Oh, wait--is a forum social media? Nah! We're all pretty anti-social here.)

THE POINT IS... every once in a while there comes a culture change that permeates an entire generation. Adults/programs who don't recognize it can lose big if they can't bridge the gap quickly. Think late-1960s... and some truly great football coach who still thinks "boy" when he sees a Negro. Sure, he wants black athletes on his team, but his recruiting is gonna stink no matter how much he tries. He just don't get it.

Now I'm not saying social media is that kind of game-changer. If it is, I'll certainly be the LAST to know. But we'd be fools to think T.Summitt, with all the attention he pays to details, would devote that much time and thought to something that wouldn't yield results.
 
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I think for me, I could care both more and less. This topic is somewhere in the middle for Ron Mexico.
 
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bamacheats said:
So you care a great deal? Why? Because I could NOT care less.
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"I could care less" certainly doesn't mean "I care a great deal". It simply means that it's not the lowest item on his list of considerations. While he might not care that much about the number of followers that Tyler has, he may care even less about the number of followers that the women's coach at Central Oklahoma has. I never understood why people get upset about using this expression. But, "I could care less".
 
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Tyler Summitt might himself be helped by his name, but whether he becomes a good basketball coach is an open question. The game is much, much different now than it was when his mother started coaching--and frankly a lot of PS's success had to do with the fact that she smartly built a program before almost anyone else, in the very early days of women's basketball. I think we were the second big program in the game, after La. Tech. Today, a ton of teams have good programs and excellent coaches and talented players. You've got to be an exceptional coach to succeed at the highest level now.
 
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I wonder if he has any interest coaching men's basketball in his future or does he want to stick with women's.
 
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Bellevue vol said:
"I could care less" certainly doesn't mean "I care a great deal". It simply means that it's not the lowest item on his list of considerations. While he might not care that much about the number of followers that Tyler has, he may care even less about the number of followers that the women's coach at Central Oklahoma has. I never understood why people get upset about using this expression. But, "I could care less".
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You can justify that term all you want, but most everyone who says "I could care less" actually mean "I don't care" which is not what they are saying. If they can't say "I couldn't care less" maybe they need to say "I don't give a rat's ass." Just don't try to rationalize "I could care less" to mean "I don't care."
 
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AllforTenn said:
You can justify that term all you want, but most everyone who says "I could care less" actually mean "I don't care" which is not what they are saying. If they can't say "I couldn't care less" maybe they need to say "I don't give a rat's ass." Just don't try to rationalize "I could care less" to mean "I don't care."
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How about, "I could care less, but I don't".
 
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