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re: Pat summit passed away.

Posted on 6/29/16 at 12:13 am to
Posted by Foolish cock
South Cak
Member since Dec 2012
2529 posts
Posted on 6/29/16 at 12:13 am to
As a gamechicken, i loath tennessee, but shite, what a pillar of everything thats right in the world did we lose today?

Damn,
I feel for vols, but i also feel for young ladies everywhere, and the world in general. Class, guts, and determination.
Posted by Prof
Member since Jun 2013
44010 posts
Posted on 6/29/16 at 12:34 am to
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What did she die of? It's my understanding that Alzheimer's/Dementia affects the mind, but it isn't fatal. Is that not correct?


I hate being blunt about this but here goes....











More than likely she died from losing control over her ability to eat and even breathe. My granny went through this and eventually could not longer swallow food or breathe on her own (patients forget to do this automatically and so require machines). My granny begged to be allowed to go and we had to make the tough call to remove the machines/feeding tubes but it was what she wanted. I don't know but I suspect something similar happened in this case.
Posted by Lordofwrath88
Tuscaloosa
Member since Oct 2012
6874 posts
Posted on 6/29/16 at 12:42 am to
Posted by chawk195
Spartanburg, SC
Member since Feb 2015
1174 posts
Posted on 6/29/16 at 12:48 am to
RIP to the goat of college coaching herself.
Posted by BigOrangeBri
Nashville- 4th & 19
Member since Jul 2012
12631 posts
Posted on 6/29/16 at 1:38 am to
Posted by BigOrangeBri
Nashville- 4th & 19
Member since Jul 2012
12631 posts
Posted on 6/29/16 at 1:39 am to
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From SI's Alexander Wolf: As Summitt settled into her seat in the first row, waiting for takeoff, the flight attendant in the jump seat opposite her began to sob. “What is it?” Summitt asked. “Tell me, what’s the matter?” It turned out that years ago, upon leaving the floor after a game at Louisiana Tech, Summitt had spotted a girl in a wheelchair at the mouth of the tunnel. She walked over, dropped to one knee, and said, “Don’t let the way you are now define who you will be. You can overcome anything if you work at it.” That little girl grew up to be the woman who would soon be getting out of that jump seat to work that flight, and for the moment she was overcome with emotion at having the chance to thank this woman who foretold how she could control her fate.
Posted by BigOrangeBri
Nashville- 4th & 19
Member since Jul 2012
12631 posts
Posted on 6/29/16 at 1:41 am to
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First day of classes freshman year at UT in 2008 I was walking around with one of those big campus maps in front of my face not paying attention to where I was going while trying to figure out where on earth I was supposed to be for a class. Someone stepped in front of me and all I see are two feet since my head was down, I look up and it's Pat. All orange sweatsuit. Grabs my map and says "Alright where ya s'posed to be honey let's find it."
Posted by BigOrangeBri
Nashville- 4th & 19
Member since Jul 2012
12631 posts
Posted on 6/29/16 at 1:43 am to
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Here comes this lady into your life. You don't know that she has been up all night peeing, racked with pain in her lower back. You don't know how many people told her she was nuts to get on an airplane and fly to your hometown at a time like this. You don't know that an hour ago, when her water broke, she was crouched in an eight-seat King Air blotting her legs with paper towels. Hell, you're 16. You don't know that she's spitting Nature in the eye and kicking Time in the teeth.
Posted by BigOrangeBri
Nashville- 4th & 19
Member since Jul 2012
12631 posts
Posted on 6/29/16 at 1:45 am to
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I lived in the Athletic dorm sophomore year. It was Thursday lunch, the best meal on Campus. It was Crab leg day! The line was moving so slow that Pat went behind the counter put on an apron, hair net, and gloves and served about 200 people coming through. "You only get two right now." She won a Championship like 2 months later.
Posted by BigOrangeBri
Nashville- 4th & 19
Member since Jul 2012
12631 posts
Posted on 6/29/16 at 1:46 am to
Posted by BigOrangeBri
Nashville- 4th & 19
Member since Jul 2012
12631 posts
Posted on 6/29/16 at 1:51 am to
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You look back at the life of Pat Summitt and you see the modern history of women’s basketball right before your eyes. Her father, Richard Head, was a tough and silent old dairy and tobacco farmer, county water commissioner and general store owner in Clarksville, TN, and he believed with the Methodists’ fury that a girl could do everything as well as a boy. This played out in various ways. He often whipped Pat (then known as Trish), and whipped her harder if she cried. She would sometimes tell the story of being a 12-year-old, and having her father drop her off in a field of hay. He handed her a rake, and said without any further instruction: “Do it.” She would remember that days would go by where her father did not say a single word to her. Pat Summitt would say that she and her father did not hug until she was 43 years old. But, he also built a basketball hoop on top of the hayloft, and he moved the family to nearby Henrietta because the high school in Clarksville did not have a girls basketball team. It was before Title IX, before women could earn athletic scholarships, before the NCAA took women’s basketball under its banner. Patricia Sue “Trish” Head was a fantastic high school basketball player, one of the nation’s best. The family pulled together enough money to send her to college at Tennessee-Martin.
Posted by BigOrangeBri
Nashville- 4th & 19
Member since Jul 2012
12631 posts
Posted on 6/29/16 at 2:12 am to
Posted by Prof
Member since Jun 2013
44010 posts
Posted on 6/29/16 at 7:42 am to
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BigOrangeBri


Bri cutting some onions up in here. Gawd, how I miss her. Heaven just got one heckuva coach and an even finer human being.
Posted by danfraz
San Antonio TX
Member since Apr 2008
24550 posts
Posted on 6/29/16 at 8:04 am to
Women's CBB hasn't been the same without her on the sidelines. I was reading something this morning about her and Sue Gunther and LSU and it just hit me that the draw to the game hasn't been the same since she left.


Look I am no WBB fan. Watched more in the past than now. But this has really been emotional. We all wish we could have the impact on people that she had.
Posted by I-59 Tiger
Vestavia Hills, AL
Member since Sep 2003
36703 posts
Posted on 6/29/16 at 8:25 am to
one thing, among several, that I admired about her was her ability to laugh at, poke fun at herself. A very humble woman.

In one of her books she mentioned how they'd go to Destin for a month every summer. Folks would recognize her and ask for her autograph or picture. Sometimes it would get annoying. One night at dinner some woman kept looking over at her and finally headed to their table. Pat said basically it had been a good day and what the heck and reached for a pen from her purse to sign the autograph for the woman.

The woman came up to their table and said to Pat, "aren't you the woman who works in the paint department at Ace Hardware?"
Posted by Buckeye06
Member since Dec 2007
23506 posts
Posted on 6/29/16 at 10:41 am to
To be honest, I knew her as a WBB coach. reading these stories legit will bring you to tears
Posted by BigOrangeBri
Nashville- 4th & 19
Member since Jul 2012
12631 posts
Posted on 6/29/16 at 10:45 am to
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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 and 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.”
Posted by Prof
Member since Jun 2013
44010 posts
Posted on 6/29/16 at 12:21 pm to
That one is one of my favorites along with her fight against the raccoon at her home (after fighting with one outside this summer I can totally relate - I finally had to resort to chemical warfare on the bugger but I'll be damned if I didn't lose Rd 1 to it and my first thought when it was happening was of Summitt's unfortunate encounter).
This post was edited on 6/29/16 at 12:22 pm
Posted by Prof
Member since Jun 2013
44010 posts
Posted on 6/29/16 at 12:54 pm to
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To be honest, I knew her as a WBB coach. reading these stories legit will bring you to tears


Thank you. She was an amazing woman who was and is well worth getting to know.
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