SUMMITT RESIGNS FROM LA. TECH AMID INAPPROPRIATE RELATIONSHIP CHARGES
" It is with great regret that I resign from my position as head coach of the Louisiana Tech women's basketball program. I am profoundly disappointed in myself for engaging in a relationship that has negatively affected the people I love, respect and care about the most."
Multiple sources are indicating he has impregnated a player on the squad (whose name is being with-held currently). Summitt was head coach at LA Tech for two years...compiling at 30-31 record and also served at Marquette as an assistant coach at Marquette from 2012-14.
A scan of the LA Tech roster...and by no means an implication of any sort...shows that two players transferred from Marquette to LA Tech to play under Summitt...senior guard Brooke Pumroy and redshirt junior guard Ashley Santos. Both were starters in the 2015-16 season...Pumroy the second-leading scorer at 12.2 ppg and Santos averaging 9.6 a game. Once again, we have NO knowledge on whether it was either of these two women or not. It's very possible both transferred seeking more playing time or because of their confidence in Tyler as a coach and mentor. They may have decided to transfer after Terri Mitchell left Marquette as a head coach on April 9th., 2014.
Whoever the player is, though, is irrelevant. The act itself is the issue and the concern.
There is an implicit trust that is established between a player and coach throughout their time in school. It extends off the court in the time a player attends school...preparing for the life after graduation, social commitments, interacting with the community and representing the university as an ambassador. There are ups-and-downs in those relationships. I spoke with a former student-athlete at the University of Louisville about that relationship and trust in a coach...who requested to be un-named. "When you arrive on campus, your head coach is basically your father or mother, your confidant, your nemesis at times and the one you place your hopes trust and future in. They teach you how to play better. The coach also helps you get ready for life after college. Sex is something I never would have considered with my coach. Going to a coach with a relationship problem, yeah...I did that twice but those were private and confidential things...and I got good advice. It's a growing time for a young women. You're learning things, you're experimenting. For a coach to take advantage of a vulnerable young woman like that...it's unacceptable. On both parties parts...but especially as far as the coach goes."
Poor Pat Summitt. I sincerely hope that the legendary coach's memory has gone to the extent where this won't affect her. After all her accomplishments, her triumphs and records...to have something like this hit her in the twilight of her cognitive existence would be a cruel and mortifying issue to deal with. If, by some chance, she is still able to comprehend and understand what has happened here...one can only hope that she isn't too badly scarred and affected by this indiscretion. She deserved much better from her only son.
Apparently, fidelity and morality weren't in the curriculum.
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At the risk of sounding like the old man that I am...many felt Tyler Summitt was given too many free passes from early on. He was never qualified to play on a D1 MBB team, much less Tennessee's but he somehow magically made the cut and suited ups for the Vols for a few years. Likewise dropping him into a D1 WBB head coaching gig at the tender age of 23 didn't look very smart from the outside and it turns out it wasn't.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who has managed people for a living knows how risky it is to put a young, inexperienced but high potential person into a position of authority over others before they are ready. It's always a danger to the organization and to the future of the person being promoted too quickly. Everyone can't handle this kind of responsibility as Summitt has shown. Turns out actual experience and maturity do matter after all.
He certainly should have known better but those around him and those that promoted him before he was mature enough for the responsibility are certainly culpable too. As Holly Warlick has previously proven and Tyler just confirmed, no amount of wishful thinking and / or projection will make anyone into the second coming of Pat Summitt. Painful lesson for sure.
Even though I imagine that Summitt and his paramour thought their relationship was a big secret I'm sure that if the other players on the team were interviewed that it would be found that pretty much all of them knew what was going on from the get go, which couldn't have been great for team chemistry.
Paulie - glad you made it through Scopesville. Those aren't much fun. Burn
Thanks, Burn. Not exactly an event to look forward to.
DeleteTyler Summitt is that cute little boy who probably didn't have too rough a childhood. It's been well-documented that his ascension to a head coaching gig was probably related to lineage instead of skills. One would have hoped he would have learned a little accountability and restraint along the way. Maybe its the scenario that he had a golden path paved for him that caused his inattention to the basics of the road. People in positions of power and authority should never lose sight that the higher the position, the more vulnerable and visible your actions are.
Paulie
Here you go.
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Now That is Funny
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