Summitt on Geno in her New Book

[UConnCat]

The Book -- Sum It Up -- is due to hit bookstores on March 5 (an otherwise very quiet time in WCBB):

John A writes that the Courant's Sports Editor reviewed an advance copy and there are 6 pages on her relationship with Geno. Not much new (a couple of stories on Geno's rudeness) and yes, the series ended because of recruiting though Pat offers nothing new; no new allegations beyond what was in the NCAA complaint:

Recruiting is the most difficult part of the game, and no coach likes it. … I believed I had a special responsibility to follow the rules closely, because whatever a coach at the top of the game did, every other coach in the country was going to do twice as aggressively. Over the course of about a year, I became increasingly upset with a couple of UConn’s recruiting tactics. I didn’t itemize my complaints publicly then, and I’m not going to now. I went through the appropriate channels and that’s how it will stay. I made my concerns known to UConn through our athletic director, Joan Cronan, and the Southeastern Conference. UConn responded that they saw nothing wrong with what they were doing. I made my concerns known again. Same response.

“I was finished.”

She ends the section on Geno in a more positive way; his note after her diagnosis and his $10,000 check to her foundation.

http://courantblogs.com/uconn-women/pat-summitt-dishes-on-geno-in-sum-it-up/#more-3335

 

[EricLA]

Apparently she didn't like the fact that the upstart coach ended up getting players she desperately wanted. Apparently that's what the arrogant do - those who sit at the top of the mountain for so long when get knocked off their entitled perch. For her to keep beating the same drum (we all know what the issues were with regards to the 30 page complaint) - a drum that was rejected by the NCAA - is a ton of sour grapes.

Not only did UCONN feel nothing was wrong, but so did the NCAA. She makes it sound like the administration "covered up" the shenanigans that the UCONN coaches were pulling (according to her).

Goes back to her (and their fans) constant whining back in the day. Either "come out" and say what you really want to say, or stop with the innuendos and veiled attacks.

 

[VAMike23]

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere we gooooooooooooo!

This thread could be good for about 500 posts or so.......if it doesn't get locked by the 200 mark.

 

[schmendrick]

That this book was co-written with Washington Post's Sally Jenkins is telling. She co-wrote Lance Armstrong's books and while each is undeniably well-written and inspiring, later events would betray her as not exactly, well, probing.

 

[meyers7]

Probably another book I won't be reading.

 

[UConnCat]

How many highly successful coaches would have the chutzpah to write this about themselves:

I believed I had a special responsibility to follow the rules closely, because whatever a coach at the top of the game did, every other coach in the country was going to do twice as aggressively.

Maybe chutzpah isn't the right word; surely there's a word that captures what it takes to write that about oneself, particularly given Pat (Head) Summitt's less than perfect record when it comes to recruiting. Oy.

 

[EricLA]

How many highly successful coaches would have the chutzpah to write this about themselves:

I believed I had a special responsibility to follow the rules closely, because whatever a coach at the top of the game did, every other coach in the country was going to do twice as aggressively.

Maybe chutzpah isn't the right word; surely there's a word that captures what it takes to write that about oneself, particularly given Pat (Head) Summitt's less than perfect record when it comes to recruiting. Oy.

Irony?

 

[UConnCat]

That this book was co-written with Washington Post's Sally Jenkins is telling. She co-wrote Lance Armstrong's books and while each is undeniably well-written and inspiring, later events would betray her as not exactly, well, probing.

Jenkins has c0-written Pat's other books and they are very close.

 

[alexrgct]

In other words, "Geno got Maya Moore out of the Atlanta metro, I didn't like it because that was my last uncontested recruiting stronghold, so I took my ball and went home. The end."

 

[bruinbball]

Wasn't Jenkins the one who strongly critiqued that really detailed Geno article by Pat Jordan from a year or so ago?

 

[UConnCat]

Irony?

Well, yes, it certainly lacks a sense of irony.

"Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown."

 

[Kibitzer]

Not everyone really grasps the meaning of the untranslatable Yiddish word, chutzpa(h). Let me help. I refer to the ultimate authority in these linguistic matters, Leo Rosten, author of Joys of Yiddish, a most delightful book that combines wit and wisdom as few others do.

His "classic definition": "Gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, incredible 'guts'; presumption plus arrogance such as no other word, and no other language, can do justice to."

An example. A diner in a Jewish restaurant asked a passing waiter, "What time is it?" Icily, the waiter said, "You aren't my table."

Is Pat (in her book) a chutzpanik? You have her statement. You have the authoritative definition. Decide for yourselves. Don't everybody talk at once.

 

[Icebear]

That this book was co-written with Washington Post's Sally Jenkins is telling. She co-wrote Lance Armstrong's books and while each is undeniably well-written and inspiring, later events would betray her as not exactly, well, probing.

And therefore never getting to the truth and accuracy.

 

[Wonkster]

... "Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown."

Or to Summitt up, uneasy lies the crown worn by Pat Head.

 

[RadyLady]

why anyone would lend credence on this meshugas is beyond me...


however...I say at least 145 posts before the thread is locked

 

[CCinCT]

That this book was co-written with Washington Post's Sally Jenkins is telling. She co-wrote Lance Armstrong's books and while each is undeniably well-written and inspiring, later events would betray her as not exactly, well, probing.

Sally Jenkins is also the "journalist" who put out some unflattering characterizations of Diana in SI. Read the account in "The Same River Twice" Page 23. The woman is nothing but a Summitt shill.

 

[schmendrick]

Jenkins has c0-written Pat's other books and they are very close.

She was close with Lance Armstrong too. And had the chutzpah to defend him until she couldn't.

 

[Husky1964]

Like BOZO Jim Boeheim who has not won SQUAT without Melo Pat has been the same for about the last 15 years absent Miss Parker.

 

[slimmer56]

Like Eric said, She was not used to having someone stick it to her on the recruiting trail, and then sticking it to her on the court. She was spoiled, and had ruled the roost forever. I think what really got her in the end was the way Geno and UCONN kept coming after her and her team. I think she thought the first time was luck. Well, it was not luck. We kept coming back at her and finally it was
UCONN #1 / utenn # 2. No, she could not take that, so she made excuses, and pointed fingers.

She denied her girls and our girls, and the fans the chance to see the 2 best teams go after each other.
She would rather do that than to lose.
Good luck Kelly, Caroline, and Heather. Don't be strangers !
GO UCONN GO

 

[CL82]

The excerpts are unsurprisingly self-serving. In the end Pat's cancelling "the game" said much more about Pat than it did about Geno. These excerpts do as well.

 

[uconnell]

Sally Jenkins is also the "journalist" who put out some unflattering characterizations of Diana in SI. Read the account in "The Same River Twice" Page 23. The woman is nothing but a Summitt shill.

Didn't she write that Diana's ego was so big she should have her own zip code? Who originated the Ball Hog Chick? Was that Jenkins?

 

[CCinCT]

Right on the zip code - Maybe someone else has the answer to "The Ball Hog Chick" question

 

[Fiftyish]

Didn't she write that Diana's ego was so big she should have her own zip code? Who originated the Ball Hog Chick? Was that Jenkins?

Wasn't the Ball Hog Chick originated by a long time Summitt poster. It was done "tongue in cheek" I believe. The same poster used to call all UConn fans "commies". He/she could be very funny.

 

[Biff]

Wasn't the Ball Hog Chick originated by a long time Summitt poster. It was done "tongue in cheek" I believe. The same poster used to call all UConn fans "commies". He/she could be very funny.

Absolutely It was RobrtNatlanta (spelling may be off a couple letters) Actually he was a pretty good egg.

 

[Goodgood]

Didn't she write that Diana's ego was so big she should have her own zip code? Who originated the Ball Hog Chick? Was that Jenkins?

She once wrote that it was very unprofessional for Michael Jordan to commute to work from Chicago to Wash, DC (for the Wizards) until someone from the same paper, Washington Post, (Mike Wilbon, I think) pointed out that she was also commuting from NYC to Wash, DC. for the same reason.