Summitt on Geno in her New Book

[choochoo]

Should the book really be named differently. Pats real name is Pat Head. Now that she is divorced and has very little love lost for her x. Pat should have called her book, " Head-ing Down, the story of the Lady Vols after I left"

 

[choochoo]

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

Maybe a new title could be, Head-ing Down"!

 

[msf22b]

This whole thing is of no consequence.

 

[Icebear]

Should the book really be named differently. Pats real name is Pat Head. Now that she is divorced and has very little love lost for her x. Pat should have called her book, " Head-ing Down, the story of the Lady Vols after I left"

Well, there are some who think The Summitt should have a new name, maybe a more nautical theme, The Hea.... Nah, that's like slapping Harp seal in a barrel.

 

[uconnell]

I really like "I BELIEVE I had a special responsibility to follow the rules closely". So special that the NCAA had to add some rules due to her recruitment of Ann Strother.

 

[schmendrick]

Probably another book I won't be reading.

Not me. I plan to take the book out of the library and will be diagramming sentences and sharing particularly provocative quotes with the Boneyard.

As soon as I can.

 

[Bestiarius]

Well, there are some who think The Summitt should have a new name, maybe a more nautical theme, The Hea.... Nah, that's like slapping Harp seal in a barrel.

That would be a good name for Thompson - B arena. The Summitt bulletin board should change it's name to Rocky Topple. The lyrics fit, being they are a lament over the loss of a way of life.

 

[svetbird]

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?

Yes I think that was her. She never even talked to Diana before writing it either. To be fair as much as I love dee her ego does need its own zip code. That being said she backs it up and is not difficult to coach. The article made her seem like a poor team player which she is not.

 

[ChicagoGG]

IMO, she wouldn't address her charges about recruiting in the book because she was WRONG and can't admit it. And if she repeated them, she would be called out on that. So she hides behind Sally Jenkins by coyly avoiding the original charges. (Did I mention that I hate people being coy?)

 

[Zorro]

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

Yes he was. I don't know if he originated the "ball-hog chick" appellation, but his was the never to be forgotten; "That ball-hog chick is killing us!" He was a funny dude.

 

[Replicant]

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.

Hubris.

 

[JS]

Yes he was. I don't know if he originated the "ball-hog chick" appellation, but his was the never to be forgotten; "That ball-hog chick is killing us!" He was a funny dude.

RobertNAtl did originate the term. His handle, incidentally, which I for a long time mentally pronounced as "Robert National," actually stood for Robert Nephew, Atlanta.

Your quote is a remark he made in a UConn/TN game thread on the Summitt. I'm not aware of any back story but always assumed he was referring to the number of shots D took in certain games as a freshman.

Anyway, reading the game thread, I was struck by the phrase -- liked its rhythm, the impact of the consonants, the lighthearted schoolboy-ish terminology, the imagined faint, rueful chuckle as Robert stood back a little from taking a spectacular defeat too seriously.

A lot to like about a short phrase, I know. But that's what inspired the first of four annual poems during Diana's college career, and how "ballhog chick" graduated from a put-down to, at least in Boneyard lore, a badge of honor.

 

[JS]

this one seems appropriate.

THE RETURN OF THE BALLHOG CHICK

On the grounds of Shady Acres
where a coach can take the cure
Etc.

Although the poems sprung from a single phrase referring to Diana, they weren't really about her. They all made fun of Pat Summitt, suggesting that DT literally drove her crazy.

While expressed as humor, this common theme reflected my actual view of Ms. Summitt -- that she was a rigid, driven woman whose veneer of stability could crack under sufficient stress.

Diana merely served, fictionally, as the agent of that stress. This was, of course, long before the developments that would make such an assessment passé, and put its repetition at risk of being unkind if not inaccurate.

 

[meyers7]

Although the poems sprung from a single phrase referring to Diana, they weren't really about her. They all made fun of Pat Summitt, suggesting that DT literally drove her crazy.

While expressed as humor, this common theme reflected my actual view of Ms. Summitt -- that she was a rigid, driven woman whose veneer of stability could crack under sufficient stress.

Diana merely served, fictionally, as the agent of that stress. This was, of course, long before the developments that would make such an assessment passé, and put its repetition at risk of being unkind if not inaccurate.

Exactly why I thought it was appropriate for this thread.