We will miss the greatest coach of 'em all.
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Is that a joke?
Jody was an average coach at best. She did well when Texas was running one of the very few fully supported women's basketball programs in the country, giving her a massive talent advantage over all but a very small number of other schools. Yet she still only managed two Final Four trips during the first eight years her team played in the NCAA tournament -- absolutely pathetic with the kind of talent she had in a sport with no parity. And then she sucked out loud for all but two of the last 17 years of her tenure.
Summitt made 17 Final Fours and won eight national championships, and she kept winning even as the sport became deeper. She made 24 Elite Eight appearances and 30 Sweet 16 appearances in the 31 seasons she coached since the inception of the NCAA Tournament.
There's no comparison between the two. Jody should have been fired a decade before she retired.
Laughable. When one of the arguably best coaches in the history of college basketball (Geno @ UConn) comes out and says that the is hands down the best coach not just women's basketball but in all of college basketball that speaks volumes. She went 30 years that if were at Tennessee for 4 years, you played in a Final Four. That is incredible. She changed women's sports forever by pushing for everything that she got. I believe she is responsible for women's sports as a whole being elevated to the level that they are at now. Without Summit, women's college basketball is completely irrelevant.
So, 123Cat, was she better than Darrel Royal, Dana Bible or Mack Brown? Must be since you posted she was better than Wilkinson, Switzer and Stoops.
How many schools put meaningful assets towards women's basketball? 10 or so? Of course it is much easier to dominate.
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