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And this news story on the Pat Summitt story reversal has reader comments and one can already see the calls or Dave Hart's head.

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Summitt: Stepping down was "very surprising...and very hurtful"

Summitt claims in her affidavit that Hart approached her with his decision to replace Summitt with current head coach Holly Warlick March 14, prior to the team traveling to Chicago, Ill. for the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

"During this one-on-one meeting, Dave Hart indicated to me that I would not be coaching the Lady Vol Basketball Team in the next school year (2012-13)," Summitt said according to the affidavit filed Wednesday.

Summitt continues in the affidavit, claiming Hart's message was contradictory to the way she wished to handle the situation.

UT seems to be plagued with a ton of lies and liars here lately and thing get worse day by day. Another prime example of UT game day event going viral was this one, which appears to also cast doubt on truth:

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A timeline of events: UT fraternity alcohol enema case

"I have a sworn affidavit from J.P. Carney that says everything that was gathered by Knoxville police investigator Patricia Tipton is false, misleading and a total lie, and we will stand by that until hell freezes over," said Broughton's lawyer Dan McGehee.

It appears there are a lot of efforts at UT to freeze hell. imho

And with the Debby Jennings suit comes the dramatic turn around of Pat Summitt on UT now being said to have forced her out, and the demon becomes Dave Hart! imho

ESPN has a major production on the theme today:

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Pat Summitt initially felt forced out

The signed affidavit was part of a lawsuit filed against the University of Tennessee by former Lady Vols media director Debby Jennings. In it, Summitt said Hart told her at a March 14 meeting prior to the NCAA tournament that she would have to step down at the end of the season. Summitt had revealed before the season that she was battling early-onset dementia.

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At the April news conference announcing her retirement, Tyler Summitt said the move was his mother's decision.

Pat Summitt said that day: "It's never a good time, but you have to find the time that you think is the right time and that is now."

And followed by the theme going viral with national news follow up due to a USA TODAY article being echoed all around the national news:

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Summitt: Tennessee AD told me I wouldn't be back

Legendary women's basketball coach Pat Summitt claims in a sworn affidavit filed Wednesday in federal court that Tennessee athletics director Dave Hart told her in a March 14, 2012, meeting that she would step down after the season and he planned to name assistant Holly Warlick as head coach.

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In the affidavit, Summit also claims Hart told her in a Feb. 15 meeting that he wanted to place all of Tennessee's athletics teams under the same "power T" logo instead of the Lady Volunteers brand.

"I was angered when he came out in an interview with the media in May 2012 and denied that he ever intended to do away with the Lady Vol logo," the affidavit states.

And Sports Illustrated also picked up similar story:

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So, now a new Viral Media frenzy will sweep the University and at the root of the matters could well be if a person with Dementia, that obviously looses focus on the court as well as car keys in the office, can really remain a head coach. imho

It was obvious Holly Warlick was doing the coaching job.

Plus, the issues of sports injuries leading to late onset dementia type illnesses may make it into the discussions, plus the issues of Summitt's over to top pushing of players to go beyond their safe limit play might even come out. imho

Media Hype and School Spirit hide a lot of things for the persuits of money.

It appears there is a bit of flip-flop per the story of Pat Summitt being fired by Dave Hart. It appears Summitt has added more to the story to get the media off Dave Hart's case and put down the fire Dave Hart elements, as Summitt still hangs around UT. But perhaps not for long, if Dave Hart keeps catching flack.

Between the media going viral on the Butt Chuggers of UT and the theme that Dave Hard forced Pat Summitt out news, UT has been highly in the national news.

USA Today again gets into the extended Pat Summitt and Debby Jennings story.

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Pat Summitt said Friday she decided on her own not to continue coaching the Lady Vols and never felt Tennessee athletic director Dave Hart forced her out.

"It was entirely my decision to step down from my position as the head coach of women's basketball at the University of Tennessee," Summitt said in a three-paragraph statement in response to the "misunderstandings" created by her comments in a signed affidavit that was released Wednesday.

Summitt said she wanted to clarify her comments in the affidavit.

Guess we'll soon see if Dave Hart has the old Summitt basketball court sanded to remove the Lady Vols logo and the Summitt title so as to align the UT Sports under the one Big Orange T logo.

In the mean time, Joan Cronan is not saying anything about these latest UT national exposures.

It appears some in Tennessee are beginning to address the issues of unseen and long ignored injury process of sports and concussions, but they may be much long in addressing the injuries to bones and joints that push inflammation factors that also lead to dementia in later life.

Perhaps some that watch the Pat Summitt story of arthritics and dementia outcome linked with sports concussions have decided it is time to do a little to slow down the damage factors linked with unregulated sports mania. What sports fans often ignore is that concussions in Women's Basketball is the highest affected sport for concussions.

In this case the Tennessean picks up on some of these factors in this article, which have been long needed to address this long ignored injury process:

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SPECIAL REPORT: SPORTS-RELATED CONCUSSIONS
The invisible injury in impact sports and young athletes

Concussions in Tennessee
Some call it getting your bell rung or being dinged, but concussions are much more serious than that. And when a young athlete returns to play before healing, the consequences can be dire. That's why leagues and lawmakers are stepping in to protect fragile brains. But Tennessee is behind in those efforts.

More details related here:

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Concussions in Tennessee

Number of injuries surges
But doctors who specialize in youth concussion care say the issue is urgent.

The number of youth concussions treated at hospitals in Tennessee has increased 74 percent from 480 in 2007 to 834 in 2010, according to the state’s Traumatic Brain Injury Program, which functions as a resource for Tennesseans recovering from brain injuries. Those numbers do not include young athletes who were treated by their pediatricians instead of going to the emergency room.

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Upended lives
Beyond the field, athletes who sustain concussions have their entire lives altered by the injuries. The prescribed treatment for a concussion is primarily rest, which means a recovering high school athlete is kept away from video games, iPads, computers and cellphones.

Such articles should be a large part of fan education so that colleges that specialize in higher education don't really specialize in brain damage preventing higher learning, or that learning erased in later life via dementia type outcomes.

It appears more news of the training of Lady Vols is making the headlines in Atlanta, Ga. as Lady Vol is arrested for knocking out car windows with a ball bat and firing a gun at her friend.

It must be part of the Pat Summitt training that has Summitt pushing her knee into players gut while screaming at them with veins bulging.

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Holdsclaw produced a handgun, fired inside the SUV and fled the scene, the report said. Police said they later recovered a 9mm shell casing at the scene. Lacy was not injured, police said.

UT is generally known for its collection of Sports hoodlums, and it appears one for case for the same lack of training in values by Pat Summitt's star player.

Another UT sports person tossed in the Drunk Tank, appears they one a game and had to party. Plus this one was under age.

I wonder where the Butt Chugger Fraternity was for this celebration:

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KNOXVILLE (WATE) - A UT football player was arrested for underage consumption and public intoxication on Sunday morning, according to the Knoxville Police Department.

Brendan Downs, a sophomore tight end on the UT football team, was at Whiskey Dix around 1 a.m. on the Strip.

The manager of the club escorted Downs outside for drinking in the club underage.

Just more examples of how sports seems to lead every one away from the process of Education and higher learning.

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