Pat Summitt, winningest coach in D-1 history, dies at 64
 

May she rest in peace.

http://espn.go.com/womens-college-ba...ummitt-dies-64

Sad news... One of my daughters role models, she played basketball and loved Tennessee basketball and thought Pat was the greatest...Turns out she was...The John Wooden of women's basketball... Rest In Peace.....

You could make a case she is the best coach of all time in any sport. She could have coached chess teams and won and probably been a great NBA coach.

She was women's basketball plain and simple and there will never be a better coach. Tough loss for the sport.

This is a sad loss for the sports world. :(

She wil never be forgotten

Always thought she could coach an NBA team and win; and probably should have.

RIP

Pat Summit and Buddy Ryan both gone on the same day. RIP

Were they secret lovers?

I met her back in the 1980's when I helped make Jesus videos for the FCA. Nice lady.

No you couldn't, not even close.
No, she wouldn't.

this. I get paying great respect and due towards someone who recently passed.. but lets not over romantize their abilities.

You seem so sure about this. If he said the same thing about a male coach, you would probably say "It's a shame they didn't even try to coach in the NBA"

The reason you're so confident with your opinion is solely based on the fact she was (RIP) a woman. We have no idea how she would have done. Not me, not you.

Shut up eh.

Yes, all due respect. And you're right, it's nice to eulogize someone.

But you can't compare apples and oranges.
College women's hoops is a very small talent pool. There are only 5-7 good teams and 1-2 teams dominate the recruiting and blow opponents out for years on end.
Calling her the greatest college coach of any sport ever is so over the top I can't even. Dan Gable is way ahead of her along with so many others it's not worth listing.

And thinking being able to coach women's college could in any way equate to being able to coach ****ing NBA, the greatest hoops league in the world, is plain dumb.

Idk. Phil Jackson is one of the Goats, but there's no guarantee he would have the same all time success in the WNBA. A good coach is a good coach, regardless of gender.

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Largly due to different talent pool, lack of parity, etc.

Coaching is more than wins and losses. She was an all time great coach.

An American Treasure. Gone.

Your effing high. 8 titles and a winning percentage of .840 put her in the conversation against any coach in any sport.

Couldn't coach in the NBA and win? Bullshit.

Did she ever teach one of her players to dunk?

We'll never know if she would've hacked it in the NBA, but I think if anyone could have done it, it's her. She commanded respect from just about everyone.

I don't really watch women's CBB, but she has to be on the Mt. Rushmore of NCAA coaches. You can't say she took advantage of the system, she created the system. If you get a chance go read what that program was like when she took over. There wasn't even an NCAA tourney yet, she made $250 a month and washed the team uniforms herself. Now it's a multi-million dollar sport. Plus she graduated 100% of her players. Pretty amazing.

It is fair to point out though she dominated a sport with very little depth in terms of good teams or with schools that were invested in women's basketball during a significant part of her tenure at Tennessee.

She was a big fish in a very small pond.

"Cuz it's the same things." :drool:
Idiot.

I think this is true... but she created that program. It isn't like she walked into a place with a ton of resources. It ended up that way because of her. I'm not sure what else you could compare it to.

Former Tennessee men’s basketball player Brian Williams, who played for former coach Bruce Pearl from 2007-11, went on Facebook to share one of his favorite memories of Summitt, who died early Tuesday morning.

It was the time she took over a men’s practice.

“We was goofing around at Pat was watching,” Williams wrote via 247Sports. “She got fed up and threw the ball and everyone stopped. She said, ‘Run sprints, and run them fast.'”

The players looked at Pearl, hoping he’d step in. But he didn’t.

“He looked back at us and walked away and sat down, and Pat ran the rest of practice,” Williams wrote. “I remember I threw up twice that day.”

Williams added that he and the men’s team always respected Summitt — even before she made them run.

“The amount of respect we had for her was unmatched, and the lives she created for thousands will never go unnoticed,” he wrote. “Thanks for everything, Pat.”

https://www.google.com/amp/ftw.usato...client=safari#

If it's not too macabre, anyone know what lead from early onset Alzheimer's to death in such a short period?

Yeah, when I was reading about her women's college b-ball coach son knocking up one of his players, it was then I read she was in pretty bad shape & thought I had read she was just diagnosed? That disease usually sticks around long enough to ruin more than a few people's lives.

she would have had a chance if she was about 10 years younger.. would have loved to see her sit on Pop's assistant bench for a couple years.