The game misses Pat Summitt

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LVJeff said:
I respectfully request that you let us know when it is published so I can obtain a copy. :)
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It's coming out in the Fall. It's about Pat's final season. She didn't have a ghost writer, it was all written by her. Candace did the foreword for the book, and there are many interviews from current & former coaches and players. I think it ended up being 38 chapters.
 
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VollyParton said:
She worked a number of years for the News Sentinel, too. She's bona fide.

When she talks about other programs not doing things the right way, it's probably not just Geno she's referring to, sadly. But the Con fans had better hold onto their butts, cause Maria has a book coming out!
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Tennessee is one of the few schools that doesn't negatively recruit against other schools, and has to fight against it all the time. Our coaches know what's being said about Tennessee and their own abilities. They've heard first hand from recruits what's being said. When a player commits to a school, our coaches back off. Other coaches, well, don't. Some coaches still contact players that are already enrolled, which is a BIG violation.
 
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LVJeff said:
I respectfully request that you let us know when it is published so I can obtain a copy. :)
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You can friend her on facebook & keep up with it. She already has a long list of people wanting signed copies. I'm looking forward to it and dreading it at the same time, because I know it will be so sad.
 
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LadyVol1908 said:
I was told by a fellow fan that this article was posted on the Boneyard and the comments they spewed about Pat were despicable! I'm sensing that there will forever be bad blood between UCONN and Tenn....one poster called Summit a b**ch! Smh
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Only on the internet can you find things like this. Blatantly untrue and more than easy to verify. I went to your boney yard to find this "quote". I read every post under the thread you referenced. I may be old but these eyes couldn't find ANYTHING expressing the vitriol you claim.

The whole tenor of the thread, as other posters have already mentioned, is the negativity directed against the writer (Maria).

This is just a trollish post on your part to ensure that the 'bad blood' continues ad nauseum.
 
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LasVegasBill23 said:
Looked just now.... I can not find the b**ch comment mentioned here......

Can you please reference it if you find it.....sounds like a racy comment!
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I went and looked and saw the comment for myself after I was told....I seen it however when I went back to try and reference it, it was gone....the comment was there, take my word for it or not....it was there.
 
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meekfan said:
Only on the internet can you find things like this. Blatantly untrue and more than easy to verify. I went to your boney yard to find this "quote". I read every post under the thread you referenced. I may be old but these eyes couldn't find ANYTHING expressing the vitriol you claim.

The whole tenor of the thread, as other posters have already mentioned, is the negativity directed against the writer (Maria).

This is just a trollish post on your part to ensure that the 'bad blood' continues ad nauseum.
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Child you can review ALL my post on here, not ONCE have I "trolled" ....and then to "continue the bad blood"....I don't think so. NO ONE on the Boneyard or VolNation says anything BRUTUL enough for me to even think about "trolling"! I leave that to the NegaVols!!!! Sorry but trolling just isnt in LadyVol1908's blood.
 
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armchair said:
The point of the piece seems to be that PS had more integrity that most other coaches in the game. That's simply not true. The vast majority of the coaches have integrity. Who might not have integrity, in Cornelius's view? Well, now we know one reason for this little piece. She is not objective when it comes to the Vols--she's works for the basketball program, effectively. She is not going to be critical of the coaching, for one thing. As for this past year's team, we certainly had final four potential--not championship potential, but certainly final four potential. We had three players drafted; how many Maryland players were drafted? We were PLENTY good enough to beat Maryland, had we played a halfway decent game. Sorry to be crass, but if you crap the bed in big situations, as Warlick's teams tend to do, it doesn't matter how much talent you have.
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I think one could have the belief that was the intent of the article, but its hard for that to really stand on its own.

One criticism I have of the article is that I believe an attempt is made to link the decline in womens basketball television ratings to Pat Summitt. Does the game miss Pat Summitt? Sure. Is that the reason for the ratings decline? Probably not. That probably has more to do with the fact that one program is beating the sh*t out of everyone else right now.
 
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LadyVol1908 said:
I went and looked and saw the comment for myself after I was told....I seen it however when I went back to try and reference it, it was gone....the comment was there, take my word for it or not....it was there.
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Oh, I do not disbelieve you. Thank you so much for checking...... obviously this subject brings out a lot of built up emotion!!!
 
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LasVegasBill23 said:
Oh, I do not disbelieve you. Thank you so much for checking...... obviously this subject brings out a lot of built up emotion!!!
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No problem, once it was said I had to check for myself.....that's a very touchy touchy situation, Pat and Geno. The old school fans are more so still caught up with the "bad blood" aspect of it however. I say let it go....Pats retired and Geno won't be at the top forever.....we as a fan base are still holding on to our 8 National Championships that Pat won us....until we beat the present day UCONN their fans will still think that they're above everyone else.
 
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LadyVol1908 said:
No problem, once it was said I had to check for myself.....that's a very touchy touchy situation, Pat and Geno. The old school fans are more so still caught up with the "bad blood" aspect of it however. I say let it go....Pats retired and Geno won't be at the top forever.....we as a fan base are still holding on to our 8 National Championships that Pat won us....until we beat the present day UCONN their fans will still think that they're above everyone else.
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So true. I try to stay out of the back and forth.... it never pushes the positive argument forth at all it seems
 
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was the B**** comment there or not? Well if its not there now... the Mods did their job. That's not done on other boards.
 
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The problem here is that, in fact, Cornelius is trolling Geno. It is essentially a little opinion piece on integrity and PS, written by a Vol basketball employee (essentially) just after UConn wins another national title, and is quite clearly a thinly veiled dig at Geno. Read between the lines: It is a silly little sour grapes piece that parrots the Tennessee women's basketball narrative over the last three years: Geno may have won more titles than PS, but he doesn't have her integrity. That's been the line from UT diehards, and it is a line that is pretty pointless now. We're not good enough to get back to the Final Four or win another title, so our fallback is to gripe about Geno. He is not mentioned in the column, but he of course is the subtext. Time for a new narrative.
 
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armchair said:
The problem here is that, in fact, Cornelius is trolling Geno. It is essentially a little opinion piece on integrity and PS, written by a Vol basketball employee (essentially) just after UConn wins another national title, and is quite clearly a thinly veiled dig at Geno. Read between the lines: It is a silly little sour grapes piece that parrots the Tennessee women's basketball narrative over the last three years: Geno may have won more titles than PS, but he doesn't have her integrity. That's been the line from UT diehards, and it is a line that is pretty pointless now. We're not good enough to get back to the Final Four or win another title, so our fallback is to gripe about Geno. He is not mentioned in the column, but he of course is the subtext. Time for a new narrative.
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Thanks Armchair, this is the most reasoned post in this thread. I agree 100%. Let's move on, why get mired in all this old crap. The LV's should be the discussion here - anything else is just a distraction.
I would rather discuss our point guard situation next year (a critical position) than what Geno had for breakfast.
 
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now we can discuss why the denizens of the swineyard are so perturbed that Pat had the good grace to offer her congratulations to UConn's team even after she had lost to then in a NC by doing it in the private sanctum of the dressing room. Who gives a crapper were it was? As long as it was sincere and in good taste.

Some people are so low class that they can't stand others who aren't.
 
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oh, it was geno who was perturbed first about it? Now I understand. He is still a "little" man.
 
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armchair said:
Uconn is a crap school with a crap campus in a crap, nowhere town. They have to feel good about something.
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No matter what the boneyard thinks or says, without Pat, there would be no UCONN or a rise in WCBB as we see today. Pat set the ground work. Geno can win 100 Championships but he NEVER will have the affect that Pat has had on the game. If he quit tomorrow, beyond UCONN, and ESPN, I doubt if he would be missed.
 
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teacherdean said:
No matter what the boneyard thinks or says, without Pat, there would be no UCONN or a rise in WCBB as we see today.
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I won't argue the rest of what you said at all but I think its a bit much to say that a sport never would have risen to be as great as it is. There's no doubt she was the catalyst in getting WCBB to where it is but I find it hard to believe that someone else wouldn't have done so if there was no CPS.
 
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we are talking about today... not 30 yrs ago

everything starts from somewhere but there's also the current state of things. Geno is current, lets no fool ourselves
 
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