See what happens when coaches stop coaching? No thanks to the NCAA's resident self-promoter Bruce Pearl's stunt. Remember where we all saw his nasty, sweaty, orange beer gut at a Lady Vols home game earlier this season? Do you remember who the Vols played? Do you remember who won despite it being a match-up between two top-ranked teams? Well thanks to the Pearl of Bruce, SI.com now reports that Tennessee Women's coach Pat Summitt is going to return the favor at the last men's home game.
Slow down all you Vols fans who were just itching to get a glimpse of Coach Summitt's 54-year old funbags painted in "hot tangerine." She has only dropped hints that it could be a throwback to her cheerleading days in junior high. (Artists' conception shown above.)
I suppose this opens up the whole debate over "Oh, that's so awesome! She's showing team spirit and pep and giving it the old college try and its all for fun!" But here's the big one.
"The fact that he and his guys painted their chests. He made that statement and...brought a lot of exposure to the university. I think people see me as being really serious, and I've just always been a kind of person that likes to have fun and do things like I'm going to do tomorrow night. But I usually don't do it on camera in front of the whole country. I figured, why not?" ~ Pat Summitt
Play for the cameras people. Pat obviously sees team spirit, but there's a time and a place for cheerleading (literally and figuratively). All I see is a Dominic James pass flying four feet over Jerel McNeal's head. Something done for the purposes of getting on SportsCenter, but in the end it falls flat on its face and just looks ridiculous.
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