Vols/UConn Series Might be Renewed

[doggydaddy]

Not so sure about that. There were Summitteers of longer standing than MMC who also had access to Summitt and whose noses were pressed closer to the BY window.

As far as her monitoring you, she had various snitches reporting in. You ensured a high employment rate in that sector.

Lol...did they really have people reading what I posted and report back to her?


I would imagine it went like this.........

 

[Icebear]

DD, we all report to someone concerning you.

 

[doggydaddy]

DD, we all report to someone concerning you.

How did my wife get involved?

 

[BooRadley]

How did my wife get involved?

They're all in cahoots... What do you think that they do when they go to the ladies room en masse??? My sources tell me that its sort of like a boardroom meeting where status updates are disseminated and they're most secret plans are finalized...

 

[Husky7882]

Stop blaming the ADs, plural, and you've finally got a defensible position, at least theoretically. To what end, I don't know.

Pat Summitt was the one who ended the series, as several folks have accurately informed you. As for your "more than one person is responsible:"

Yeah. You can add Summitt's staff, who went along with her. Surprise, surprise. Can just imagine them saying, "Forget it, Pat. Don't be such a jealous janet."

You can argue that the Tennessee AD should have stopped her.

Should have, that is, as viewed by you from on high. It was out of the question in the real world, where the power dynamics and relationship were such that there was no freakin' way.

Tennessee had a separate women's AD, Joan Cronan, until the AD's were merged last June. Summitt was the tail wagging the Tennessee women's athletics department, and Cronan was women's AD for 29 of Summitt's 38 years as coach.

Cronan: "We've always laughed because I wanted her to coach as long as she could, because she was a pretty good AD when she was coaching." (WBIR.com, 5/2/12)

So much for the Tennessee AD should've cracked the whip on Pat. She not only didn't crack it, she wrote the accusatory "we'd prefer to remain anonymous" poison pen letter about UConn to the SEC.

Turning to UConn, you can't plausibly argue the UConn AD, whether or not possessed of nerve, or anyone else on the UConn side, had the ability to keep the series going when Summitt decided it would end.

So, you're left with the abstract proposition that an AD should be the boss of a coach (and should, incidentally, have seen it your way). Fair enough, provided you recognize that, in reality, it isn't always the case (see, e.g., Paterno, J. and Summitt, P.)

And that's why people have a problem with your both-sides-were-to-blame sally. Whatever your reason for advancing it, it suffers from the appreciable defect of being unsupportable.

When I finished reading your post, I felt like I was back in Business Law I and II answering an exam question; the "technique" is all there. It's quite obvious what you do for a living. Great job, counselor!

 

[Waquoit]

Since UT cancelled the series, they've become just another decent program.

 

[reno tony]

With talk like that, I'm adding a results premium to your bill.

Are you mad at me because of my lawyer joke?

 

[rocky rococo]

It's all still a darned shame. Huskies-Lady Vols was the one time that wbb could move to the top of the stack without the "sports fans" feeling a need to protect their genitalia by denouncing the entire sport, all those who participate, and suggesting that those of us who love it simply don't exist. Even "sports fans" were capable of recognizing and respecting the genuine rivalry game, the contest of legendary programs, and in the absence of their hoots of derision, wbb was able to be judged on its own merits, and as such tended to be generally well-received by the wider public. There was nothing better for the sport, and thus a very very good thing for those of us who love it. It's terribly sad that the University of Tennessee feels the need to make the product of Pat's dementia a matter of university policy, to the general detriment of wbb. It does, after all, go directly against everything Pat in her healthy years strove to build.

 

[reno tony]

Well then you might be a little slow.

Ouch! Are you referring to my mental acuity or speed in the 100 meter butterfly? I've enjoyed your posts in the past and probably will in the future, but I thought you were above childish insults toward someone who doesn't share your opinion.

 

[phil sampieri]

It's all still a darned shame. Huskies-Lady Vols was the one time that wbb could move to the top of the stack without the "sports fans" feeling a need to protect their genitalia by denouncing the entire sport, all those who participate, and suggesting that those of us who love it simply don't exist. Even "sports fans" were capable of recognizing and respecting the genuine rivalry game, the contest of legendary programs, and in the absence of their hoots of derision, wbb was able to be judged on its own merits, and as such tended to be generally well-received by the wider public. There was nothing better for the sport, and thus a very very good thing for those of us who love it. It's terribly sad that the University of Tennessee feels the need to make the product of Pat's dementia a matter of university policy, to the general detriment of wbb. It does, after all, go directly against everything Pat in her healthy years strove to build.

I think most people, including me can forgive a person who makes staements made in the heat of the moment. Geno cetainly has made some dumb statements in jest that never were reaqlly understood.What Pat did folks was planned ,vindictive, calculated to destroy not just Geno but Uconn in general.She did this to, in her mind, tarnish our reputation and supposedly gain an advantage in recruiting.I for one do not forgive that.

 

[DobbsRover2]

Yea, actually, they are not even particularly found of us.

Well that's mainly because of all those weird pictures of the Huskies that Biff and others have posted. Maybe if we all just sneak up on Geno and muss his hair like Stewie does he'll start to like the BY a little.

 

[Icebear]

Are you mad at me because of my lawyer joke?

Better to make a lawyer joke than to be a lawyer joke.