Wednesday

pat head summitt

I'm not much of a sports fan (except for horse sports, to which I am addicted), but if I do have a favorite mainstream sport/team it would be the Tennessee Lady (basketball) Vols. And as all of America knows, Lady Vols Head Coach Pat Summitt last night became the winningest college basketball coach in history -- male or female.

Her achievement is all the more interesting given that (from AP story today):

Summitt took over the women's program at Tennessee in 1974 at age 22 when there were no scholarships and she had to wash the uniforms and drive the team van.

The university honored her by renaming the playing floor at Thompson-Boling Arena, "The Summitt." That's pretty neat, but really, isn't it time that the legendary women's basketball team at UT becomes "The Vols" and the less-than-successful-for-many-decades men's basketball team is renamed "The Gentleman Vols"????

I think so.
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Anonymous said...

I think it's great that Pat is the winningest coach ever. . . she's a really sweet lady and I am glad to have met her. But that's just stupid to change the name of the Lady Vols. It's like trying to change the name of the WNBA to just NBA and change the NBA to Men's National Basketball Association.

Thursday, March 24, 2005 at 1:16:00 AM GMT

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