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orangeblood
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CamrnCrz1974
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SueBirdFan
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Posted: 09/04/06 12:56 pm ::: |
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Pat is cleaning up!
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orangeblood
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Posted: 09/04/06 1:36 pm ::: |
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When I looked at it there had been over 16,000 votes. I doubt those 16,000 votes came from the Tennessee women's board. And if the demographics of visitors to espn.com is no longer predominantly male then I definitley missed the shift!
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CamrnCrz1974
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Posted: 09/04/06 2:50 pm ::: |
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orangeblood wrote: |
When I looked at it there had been over 16,000 votes. I doubt those 16,000 votes came from the Tennessee women's board. And if the demographics of visitors to espn.com is no longer predominantly male then I definitley missed the shift! |
You assume all visitors to ESPN.com are then voting in the poll, rather than it being skewed by women's basketball fans wanting to have female representation among the top coaches.
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orangeblood
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Posted: 09/04/06 4:02 pm ::: |
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I don't believe that, but I would love to. If women's basketball has that much more representation in these polls than ALL of the other sports included then that's just wonderful. Or if it's purely a result of Tennessee fans voting then they don't have the greatest coach ever; they have the greatest fans ever, lol.
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Sass
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Posted: 09/04/06 4:09 pm ::: |
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Either way, Pat gets a LOT of respect from men. Just the other night, a prof of mine (a former college player) made the "if Pat moved up and coached a men's team, they would kick ass" comment. Of course it's a back-handed and sexist compliment, but the point was taken.
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jimmyk
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Posted: 09/04/06 7:30 pm ::: |
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Sass wrote: |
Either way, Pat gets a LOT of respect from men. Just the other night, a prof of mine (a former college player) made the "if Pat moved up and coached a men's team, they would kick ass" comment. Of course it's a back-handed and sexist compliment, but the point was taken. |
We said more than a few times last year that Pat should be coaching the football team, because the men sure as hell didn't know what they were doing.
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auntie
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Posted: 09/04/06 7:43 pm ::: |
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I could not get in. But I do remember that ESPN had one its count down shows on coaches and I think Pat made something like #3 and Geno was something like #6. I think Joe Torre might have been #1.
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CamrnCrz1974
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Posted: 09/04/06 10:46 pm ::: |
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auntie wrote: |
I could not get in. But I do remember that ESPN had one its count down shows on coaches and I think Pat made something like #3 and Geno was something like #6. I think Joe Torre might have been #1. |
Not quite. ESPN did the best coaches of the past 25 years (done in 2004).
1. Dean Smith
2. Scotty Bowman
3. Coach K
4. Phil Jackson
5. Pat Summitt
6. Bill Walsh
Auriemma was 11th.
Then there was the ESPN poll of top Big-Game College coaches:
1. Wooden
2. Coach K
3. Denny Crum
4. Rick Pitino
5. Pat Summitt
Dean Smith was 10th. Auriemma was listed under "others."
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Jackson51181
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Posted: 09/05/06 2:34 am ::: |
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well my vote would have to go to Pat Summit all the way. |
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auntie
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Posted: 09/05/06 8:21 pm ::: |
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CamrnCrz1974 wrote: |
auntie wrote: |
I could not get in. But I do remember that ESPN had one its count down shows on coaches and I think Pat made something like #3 and Geno was something like #6. I think Joe Torre might have been #1. |
Not quite. ESPN did the best coaches of the past 25 years (done in 2004).
1. Dean Smith
2. Scotty Bowman
3. Coach K
4. Phil Jackson
5. Pat Summitt
6. Bill Walsh
Auriemma was 11th.
Then there was the ESPN poll of top Big-Game College coaches:
1. Wooden
2. Coach K
3. Denny Crum
4. Rick Pitino
5. Pat Summitt
Dean Smith was 10th. Auriemma was listed under "others." |
Thanks for the correction. It is interesting how my old brain twisted this around.
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CamrnCrz1974
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Posted: 09/07/06 5:45 pm ::: |
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orangeblood wrote: |
When I looked at it there had been over 16,000 votes. I doubt those 16,000 votes came from the Tennessee women's board. And if the demographics of visitors to espn.com is no longer predominantly male then I definitley missed the shift! |
At least 500 came from one Tennessee fan:
http://mb18.scout.com/fgridscapefrm6.showMessage?topicID=30913.topic
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orangeblood
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Posted: 09/07/06 8:30 pm ::: |
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Looks like it's rigged too. Interesting. And those 500 votes also went to Dan Gable. Why on earth would someone go to that extent to keep a woman from winning an internet poll?
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pilight
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Posted: 09/07/06 8:44 pm ::: |
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orangeblood wrote: |
Why on earth would someone go to that extent to keep a woman from winning an internet poll? |
College wrestling fans are the most anti-women's sports people around. They've let the football people convince them that Title IX is why college wrestling is getting cut all over the place.
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orangeblood
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Posted: 09/07/06 9:32 pm ::: |
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Ah...very good point. Didn't think of that.
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Queenie
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Posted: 09/07/06 10:34 pm ::: |
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...sooooo would the universe be exploding if I admitted to voting for both Summitt and Gable?
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jimmyk
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Queenie
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Sass
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jimmyk
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Posted: 09/07/06 10:52 pm ::: |
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She's been doing that for years now. It's a miracle the earth still exists.
Maybe THAT is the explanation for global warming, then.
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