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OT - Pat Summit - Diagnosed with early onset dementia

  • There is not a basketball coach, male or female, that is more respected among fellow coaches at all levels than Summitt. Terrible news.

    Anyone. Anyplace. Anytime.

    rookmsu

  • y2kMgrad said...

    she's going to coach with dementia?

    now that's just crazy.

    lol

    +1, you scum bastard

    This post was edited by BrodieMSU on 8/23/2011 at 2:42 PM

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  • To all those making jokes of the situation, you are pretty sad. Reaching for a low-brow joke at the expense of another person struggling with something is pretty weak. If you want to practice being a comedian, try being a little more creative. If you are truly funny, you can find humor in situations other than these.

    Iceman3MSU

  • Iceman3MSU said...

    To all those making jokes of the situation, you are pretty sad. Reaching for a low-brow joke at the expense of another person struggling with something is pretty weak. If you want to practice being a comedian, try being a little more creative. If you are truly funny, you can find humor in situations other than these.

    Says the guy with a Michael Scott avatar...

    jwarsenal9 ●

  • Apparently you have difficulty in separating real-life from TV sitcoms

    Iceman3MSU

  • Iceman3MSU said...

    Apparently you have difficulty in separating real-life from TV sitcoms

    Apparently you find it funny when he is rude to Kevin about his skin-cancer, among others he says that are demeaning to people

    jwarsenal9 ●

  • Iceman3MSU said...

    To all those making jokes of the situation, you are pretty sad. Reaching for a low-brow joke at the expense of another person struggling with something is pretty weak. If you want to practice being a comedian, try being a little more creative. If you are truly funny, you can find humor in situations other than these.

    Lame.

    Ernie Pantusso

  • Although later in life its the same disease has left Dean Smith leading a quiet private life out of the public eye.

    She's had a great 38 year career and can only hope her eventual decline will be slow enough allow her to see her son graduate from UT and she gets to do some things she's put off because for the first time in her lfe she is on the clock and has no idea how fast its running.

    This post was edited by GRR Spartan on 8/23/2011 at 4:56 PM

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  • I'm just going to hate the blowfest they are going to give her. "Blah Blah role modle", " Blah Blah class act", "Blah Blah she can hang with most male coaches", "Blah, Blah most winningest coach ever". I agree she has had a storied career but most if not all are just coming out just so they can make themselves look like Mitch Albom or something. The woman isn't dead yet. Far from it. She won't die from her condition. In fact she just fades away. Go to an "old folks home” you will see tons of people with this condition. The only difference is they didn't coach woman's college basketball.

    Catus

  • Catus said...

    I'm just going to hate the blowfest they are going to give her. "Blah Blah role modle", " Blah Blah class act", "Blah Blah she can hang with most male coaches", "Blah, Blah most winningest coach ever". I agree she has had a storied career but most if not all are just coming out just so they can make themselves look like Mitch Albom or something. The woman isn't dead yet. Far from it. She won't die from her condition. In fact she just fades away. Go to an "old folks home” you will see tons of people with this condition. The only difference is they didn't coach woman's college basketball.

    I hope you don't have to see someone you care about waste away the way dementia patients ends come. But based on the tenor of your post its unlikely there are many people you care about.

    GRR Spartan ●

  • Catus said...

    I'm just going to hate the blowfest they are going to give her. "Blah Blah role modle", " Blah Blah class act", "Blah Blah she can hang with most male coaches", "Blah, Blah most winningest coach ever". I agree she has had a storied career but most if not all are just coming out just so they can make themselves look like Mitch Albom or something. The woman isn't dead yet. Far from it. She won't die from her condition. In fact she just fades away. Go to an "old folks home” you will see tons of people with this condition. The only difference is they didn't coach woman's college basketball.

    i dont think you have a clue about dementia. at all. do you know why most demented patients die?

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  • Catus said...

    I'm just going to hate the blowfest they are going to give her. "Blah Blah role modle", " Blah Blah class act", "Blah Blah she can hang with most male coaches", "Blah, Blah most winningest coach ever". I agree she has had a storied career but most if not all are just coming out just so they can make themselves look like Mitch Albom or something. The woman isn't dead yet. Far from it. She won't die from her condition. In fact she just fades away. Go to an "old folks home” you will see tons of people with this condition. The only difference is they didn't coach woman's college basketball.

    Uhhhhh... Yeah, you're an idiot.

    Grits n Gravy72501

  • Catus said...

    I'm just going to hate the blowfest they are going to give her. "Blah Blah role modle", " Blah Blah class act", "Blah Blah she can hang with most male coaches", "Blah, Blah most winningest coach ever". I agree she has had a storied career but most if not all are just coming out just so they can make themselves look like Mitch Albom or something. The woman isn't dead yet. Far from it. She won't die from her condition. In fact she just fades away. Go to an "old folks home” you will see tons of people with this condition. The only difference is they didn't coach woman's college basketball.

    Did you come here just to make an idiot of yourself? Dementia is a horrible illness and robs a human of the ability to function as we are meant to be. Summitt is only 59, a role model for many and one of the greatest coaches in the history of women's college BB. Even Gino Auriemma whose feud with Summitt is well known was extremely gracious today.

    MSchott

  • Dementia at 59 is early. Wow. Does this mean she is done coaching or will she try to continue?

    Posting member of tRCMB since 1997. It is ALWAYS a great day to be a Spartan!!!!

    Raytooth Morgan ●

  • Catus said...

    I'm just going to hate the blowfest they are going to give her. "Blah Blah role modle", " Blah Blah class act", "Blah Blah she can hang with most male coaches", "Blah, Blah most winningest coach ever". I agree she has had a storied career but most if not all are just coming out just so they can make themselves look like Mitch Albom or something. The woman isn't dead yet. Far from it. She won't die from her condition. In fact she just fades away. Go to an "old folks home” you will see tons of people with this condition. The only difference is they didn't coach woman's college basketball.

    Just fades away? You ever know anyone who's gone through this? Won't die from her condition? Ever read much about long-term Alzheimer's?

    Jesus.

    Anyone. Anyplace. Anytime.

    rookmsu

  • My wife runs an assisted living facility for those with Alzheimer's and Dementia, and it isn't a pretty place. Very, very sad.

    Dementia and Alzheimer's are terrible diseases that rob one of their ability to function mentally, yet physically they can live for years or decades. It turns people into shells of their former self, or opposites of who they once were.

    For Pat Summitt to be at this stage at age 59 is a bit young, but I have seen younger through my wife's work. There was a woman there who had a very aggressive form of dementia called Bili, and she passed away at 54. She communicated through grunts and eye gestures, she could not speak at all.

    My wife's Grandfather developed Alzheimer's late in his life, and it was a messy last few years before he passed away. Sad thing is she sees the same signs in her Mom, we have a feeling she will follow the same path as her Dad.

    A terrible, terrible disease I wouldn't wish on anyone or any family.

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  • Catus said...

    I'm just going to hate the blowfest they are going to give her. "Blah Blah role modle", " Blah Blah class act", "Blah Blah she can hang with most male coaches", "Blah, Blah most winningest coach ever". I agree she has had a storied career but most if not all are just coming out just so they can make themselves look like Mitch Albom or something. The woman isn't dead yet. Far from it. She won't die from her condition. In fact she just fades away. Go to an "old folks home” you will see tons of people with this condition. The only difference is they didn't coach woman's college basketball.

    Just fade away? I watched my mother suffer and die with this disease. It is anything but "fade away".

    You are an imbecile.

    Vegas Vic

  • Catus said...

    I'm just going to hate the blowfest they are going to give her. "Blah Blah role modle", " Blah Blah class act", "Blah Blah she can hang with most male coaches", "Blah, Blah most winningest coach ever". I agree she has had a storied career but most if not all are just coming out just so they can make themselves look like Mitch Albom or something. The woman isn't dead yet. Far from it. She won't die from her condition. In fact she just fades away. Go to an "old folks home” you will see tons of people with this condition. The only difference is they didn't coach woman's college basketball.

    Bump for idiot status. You have no clue what you are talking about.

    I would rather have cancer than Alzheimer's. At least I would know my destiny. With Alzheimers/Dementia the outcome is unknown, and a burden on your family. I would rather have someone put a bullet in my head than live with dementia for 10 years.

    Whatever accolades thrown Pat Summitt's way are deserved. At some point she will die from this disease, unless something else strikes her first.

    Summitt is a pioneer in her sport, and needs to be remembered that way.

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  • Raytooth Morgan said...

    Dementia at 59 is early. Wow. Does this mean she is done coaching or will she try to continue?

    She will be coaching. They talk about it in one of the links I posted above. One of her assistants will be ready to take over at a moments notice, ie: bad day, occasional WTF moments, etc.

    I think they will evaluate how the season goes, and then take it from there.

    Meds should get her a few good years, but not sure if that includes the pressure of coaching or if she will step down to enjoy friends and family more.

    She is a good egg. lilGatorBill said she had random people on campus. . . while waiting for traffic lights, or walking next to her on the side walk, etc. . . . who would look at her and say "wow, did you hear about coach summit?" She said the whole place is in stunned silence.

    If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. Jimmy Valvano

    GatorBill ●

  • jwarsenal9 said...

    I love how people on here make all of these stupid jokes about random people dying, and then when an article about Pat Summit's health comes up, everyone suddenly turns serious

    Good point, and poor Pat.

    What is that, a Titleist? A hole in one...

    Cosmo_Kramer

  • Mr.McGibblets said...

    BLOW ME BITCH

    Stop stealing my lines. smoke

    This post was edited by Tanfan on 8/24/2011 at 6:25 AM

    Keeping the sunshiners in check since 2000.

    Tanfan

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