A Change of Pace....

Best Coach at UT??

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#3
#3
The sports are completely different beasts, but I have to go with Summit. She demands respect.
 
#7
#7
CPF. He has a very demanding job and finds a way to get it done, despite getting slaughtered a couple times each season.
 
#8
#8
I went Fulmer as well, because as much as I love Pat, for more than half her career, she had to be better than 3-4 teams, and she'd have a title.
 
#10
#10
I hate watching the Lady Vols other than Final 4 and NC game, but there's no question here. Year in and out Summit has a competitive team in EVERY single game she plays. "But she gets all the players" She built a program from the ground up to get it that way..

Competing at the level she does and fitting the style of the day to her current roster.. Pretty remarkable.

But I wouldn't be caught dead watching the ladies in a game bouncing the ball off their feet and scratching like cats to shoot 3 bricks until one of them finally wrestles it away and taps it in on a regular basis.
 
#11
#11
The reason i picked pearl was because he has brought in talent to a program that was nearly inexistant....
 
#12
#12
If I had to get rid of all but one coach, which one would I keep? That would be Pearl.
 
#13
#13
got to be Pat she is the only one with her name on the playing field ,floor, but there all great :yes:
 
#15
#15
No doubt about it, Ron Summit....as many national titles as the sum of the football coaches in the SEC, Big Ten, and the ACC....think about that
 
#20
#20
Answering Pat Summit to this question is the equivalent of saying Anson Dorrance was a better coach at North Carolina than Dean Smith.
 
#21
#21
VolinArizona said:
I went Fulmer as well, because as much as I love Pat, for more than half her career, she had to be better than 3-4 teams, and she'd have a title.
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That's true, but what she's done in the remainder of her career still puts her ahead of any other UT coach.

* 959 victories
* 21 Final Fours
* 17 30-win seasons
* 14 SEC Championships
* 12 SEC Tournament Championships
* 7 National Championships

Fulmer's job IS tougher, but not nearly so much as to overcome all of that.

Anson Dorrance isn't the same thing. Summitt may have only had to beat three or four teams for a lot of her career, but Dorrance didn't have to beat anybody. He was also coach of the national team, so he got ALL the top recruits. If he didn't win the NCAA title, he should have committed seppuku. One year, he and Mia Hamm sat out the whole season to coach the World Cup, and the leftovers still romped to the NCAA title.
 
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