re: The People vs. Dave Hart

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If they want to be called lady Vols, they shouldn't get any non-lady Vol money. We'll see how long they bitch when they're travelling to away games on Schwinns bought with bake sale money.

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That just seems spiteful to me since they're not asking for something new or even money just to be called what they've always been called. Also, you can't say 'well you don't get non-lady vol money' because Hart dissolved their dept and rolled it into the men's AD (it was one of the ways we fixed our men's AD - it helped the academic side of the men's greatly and cleaned some other stuff up as well). As for the name, I get that you think it's a silly issue but it obviously has the attention of two (male) republican state legislators and is an issue for a sizable number of people.

What makes the Lady Vols issue weird is that normally women want to get rid of the term 'lady' but in this case they want to keep it. That's where I think Nike fricked up -- they didn't realize that it had such a positive meaning for this program.

To me it's just weird as frick that we have the Lady Vols (basketball) and then other women's sports are just Vols.