Pat Summitt

[wicked]

Bunch of stuff out there on Twitter, saying she's in critical condition in a hospital. Vague tweets from the like of Robin Roberts, etc. Nothing on the wires or any news site.

If you're to believe what's posted on Reddit:

Pat Summitt (the winningest female basketball coach of all time) is reportedly in critical condition. • /r/nba

 

[User 4332]

Former Tennessee women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt ‘struggling’

 

[wicked]

"I don't think anybody knows whether she will last a day, a month, or a year," the source said.

 

[Earthman]

Bunch of stuff out there on Twitter, saying she's in critical condition in a hospital. Vague tweets from the like of Robin Roberts, etc. Nothing on the wires or any news site.

If you're to believe what's posted on Reddit:

Pat Summitt (the winningest female basketball coach of all time) is reportedly in critical condition. • /r/nba

Robin Roberts is a class act.

 

[Gator]

#PrayForPat

 

[Vombatus]

CNN is reporting she has passed. Age 64. RIP.

 

[wicked]

Legendary Lady Vols coach Summitt dies at 64

Can someone with more power than me change the thread title?

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Well ****.
R.I.P.
She has been one of my idols since I read that SI profile on her where were water broke while on a recruiting trip to Pennsylvania, but she delayed birth until she returned to Tennessee.

I'm sure she's going to Heaven. But I'll bet she has a standing job offer from the Devil to stare down the sinners.

God, that glare.

R.I.P.

 

[Songbird]

This seems rather overwritten, at least the first several grafs.

Eyes Of The Storm When Tennessee's whirlwind of a coach, Pat Summitt, hits you with her steely gaze, you get a dose of the intensity that has carried the Lady Vols to five NCAA titles

But interesting tidbit ...

Those who are playing for Pat Summitt now at Tennessee--members of the 1997-98 team, which finished the regular season 30-0 and is favored to win an astonishing third consecutive national title, the sixth in 12 years--cannot see the hurricane clearly because they're still inside it. They're hugging a tree for dear life, waiting for the wind and water to recede. Someone else, on a dry, sunny day a few years from now, can ask them to describe what it was like to play for this woman whose five national championships are surpassed in NCAA basketball history only by John Wooden's 10; whose .814 winning percentage in 23 seasons ranks fifth among all coaches in the history of men's and women's college basketball; whose number of trips to the Final Four, 14 and counting, will most likely never be matched, seeing how she's only 45. This woman who never raised a placard or a peep for women's rights, who never filed a suit or overturned a statute or gave a flying hoot about isms or movements, this unconscious revolutionary who's tearing up the terrain of sexual stereotypes and seeding it with young women who have an altered vision of what a female can be.

Auriemma has been to 17 Final 4's, including 9 straight. At that point he'd only been to 3 so it was a fair statement to make.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

An incredible coach and a true pioneer in her sport. RIP

 

[Dick Whitman]

Well ****.
R.I.P.
She has been one of my idols since I read that SI profile on her where were water broke while on a recruiting trip to Pennsylvania, but she delayed birth until she returned to Tennessee.

Very reminiscent of Sarah Palin giving birth to Trig.

 

[Songbird]

 

[Bamadog]

I have two memories of Pat Summitt when I was at Alabama.

I called the UT athletic office to interview her for a preview for the Lady Vols' annual visit to Tuscaloosa. They told me Coach Summitt would call me back later that day. My thought was "I'm just a nobody student journalist, so there's no way she calls me back."
Wrong. I'm in the Wal-Mart and my phone rings with an unfamiliar number. I answer and it was her. Fortunately, I had my notes in the car and had an enjoyable and insightful 20-minute conversation. It's not every day you get a call in Wal-Mart from a legend.

When I interviewed her at the SEC preseason tipoff event in Birmingham, we finished our interview and I walked with her into the dining room. When she entered the noisy banquet room, the noise level dropped 20 decibels at least out of respect.

Another anecdote, I was covering the UT-Alabama women's game after writing that advance and UT was up 40 points on Alabama. A ball flies out of bounds and one of the UT players dives after it, even though the game was well in hand. I thought if she can coach her players to play with that level of effort and intensity when the game is no longer in doubt...she must be the best basketball coach who ever lived.

She was a total class act too. She graduated every one of her players, which is something that gets lost in the wins and losses. There's a whole generation out there of women who were inspired by Coach Summitt to greatness and that's really her true legacy.

 

[Riptide]

I don't like the Volunteers.
I grew to love Pat Summit.

That's how great she was.

 

[Flip Wilson]

I have two memories of Pat Summitt when I was at Alabama.

I called the UT athletic office to interview her for a preview for the Lady Vols' annual visit to Tuscaloosa. They told me Coach Summitt would call me back later that day. My thought was "I'm just a nobody student journalist, so there's no way she calls me back."
Wrong. I'm in the Wal-Mart and my phone rings with an unfamiliar number. I answer and it was her. Fortunately, I had my notes in the car and had an enjoyable and insightful 20-minute conversation. It's not every day you get a call in Wal-Mart from a legend.

When I interviewed her at the SEC preseason tipoff event in Birmingham, we finished our interview and I walked with her into the dining room. When she entered the noisy banquet room, the noise level dropped 20 decibels at least out of respect.

When the Lady Vols played at Local University, the crowd gave Summitt a standing ovation as she walked to the bench before the game, which I thought was a well-deserved and classy act on the crowd's part.

 

[TigerVols]

Pretty interesting list of people she impacted:

World takes to social media to mourn Pat Summitt's death, celebrate her legacy

 

[WriteThinking]

Very reminiscent of Sarah Palin giving birth to Trig.

Well, that kind of ruins that anecdote .

 

[da man]

I have two memories of Pat Summitt when I was at Alabama.

I called the UT athletic office to interview her for a preview for the Lady Vols' annual visit to Tuscaloosa. They told me Coach Summitt would call me back later that day. My thought was "I'm just a nobody student journalist, so there's no way she calls me back."
Wrong. I'm in the Wal-Mart and my phone rings with an unfamiliar number. I answer and it was her. Fortunately, I had my notes in the car and had an enjoyable and insightful 20-minute conversation. It's not every day you get a call in Wal-Mart from a legend.

When I interviewed her at the SEC preseason tipoff event in Birmingham, we finished our interview and I walked with her into the dining room. When she entered the noisy banquet room, the noise level dropped 20 decibels at least out of respect.

Another anecdote, I was covering the UT-Alabama women's game after writing that advance and UT was up 40 points on Alabama. A ball flies out of bounds and one of the UT players dives after it, even though the game was well in hand. I thought if she can coach her players to play with that level of effort and intensity when the game is no longer in doubt...she must be the best basketball coach who ever lived.

She was a total class act too. She graduated every one of her players, which is something that gets lost in the wins and losses. There's a whole generation out there of women who were inspired by Coach Summitt to greatness and that's really her true legacy.

You should have heard her blistering tirade to her players during a timeout in the second half of the 1998 NCAA title game, after they had the audacity to suffer a letdown that allowed Louisiana Tech to close within 18.

 

[Dick Whitman]

You should have heard her blistering tirade to her players during a timeout in the second half of the 1998 NCAA title game, after they had the audacity to suffer a letdown that allowed Louisiana Tech to close within 18.

Back when it was safe for women to play at La. Tech.

 

[dixiehack]

Another anecdote, I was covering the UT-Alabama women's game after writing that advance and UT was up 40 points on Alabama.

You got to see one of the close ones. Bama virtually never came within the same area code as Summitt's teams (this past winter, it beat the Lady Vols for the first time since 1984.) The Tide had its only Final Four team my freshman year and still got blown out twice by UT. The Lady Vols were just in a different orbit, like one of those sports car races where everyone's on the track but the most advanced models have their own category and you don't bother comparing your entry to theirs.