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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 4514646, member: 44"] Reread my posts and realize I fully acknowledge that Pat Summitt was one of the greatest coaches in the history of women’s basketball, arguably, the second greatest coach ever. You can acknowledge that, and still say that it is incredibly unlikely when called up about the possibility of taking the game that she said “[I]I shall take this game, but not for me, and not even for the Lady Vols but I shall take this game because I believe, deep in my heart of hearts, that playing this game in Connecticut on Martin Luther King Day, and shall forever propel the sport of women’s basketball to greater heights and perhaps, one day, lead to the establishment of two professional women’s basketball leagues, one of which will fail, but the other one which shall continue and become a bright light for the game, and verily, women everywhere.[/I]” or whatever is being attributed to her by people who weren’t on the call. I could be wrong, of course, and she could have been born with incredible precognition abilities, but Occam’s Razor would let us to believe that she took the game because it was a high profile, nationally broadcasted game for the Lady Vols. Here’s one more fly in the ointment, do networks call coaches to schedule games, or do they call athletic directors? Again, none of that makes her a bad person or any less of a coach. I’m just not a huge fan of revisionism. (lol at “it doesn’t matter if she actually said it or not.”) [/QUOTE]

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