I mean, they've also posted some risque photos where they're exaggerating their rear ends and sticking out their tongues to suggest whatever imaginary thing you can think of. I leave that to the reader to work out the details. Most of their stuff is basketball, yes, but they're tweaking the dial to garner attention where they can. That's not unique to them, by any means. If you go on Twitch or cruise Tik Tok you'll find tens of thousands of young women doing the same. Dudes do it too but frankly their market potential usually lies elsewhere.
Regardless, my point is not really as much about them as much as it is the social apparatuses that have brought us to this place, and what it says about us and how we're raising people now. I know people have always exploited the beauty of youth, but the internet has refined this down to its most base process. These girls are just taking advantage. I'm not judging them for that. I am sort of judging us for it a little though, and thinking about school representatives doing such things. And really, just the question of -- let me put it this way. I wonder how Pat would feel about a player doing stuff like that but also playing for her and for Tennessee. I'm not invoking her name to tilt the discussion, but just, as a coach and a surrogate mother to her players, I wonder what she would think or say. And moreover, I wonder what it says if you have someone who represents your school as a student athlete but spends weekends farming thirsty folks on social media. I'm no prude, but that's why I said I just wonder where this is headed.
