Thread: Louisiana Tech Basketball Coach Tyler Summitt resigns after 2 seasons

You would think having a mother who was a great coach at Tennessee would not allow himself to get into a mess like this.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-...035055334.html

At the start of his press conference announcing 23-year-old Tyler Summitt as Louisiana Tech's next women's basketball coach two years ago, athletic director Tommy McClelland addressed his new hire's age by cracking a joke.


"Did you hear the joke about what the young guy said to the younger guy?" McClelland deadpanned. "Need a job?"

You can bet other athletic directors will be more reticent giving so much responsibility to someone so young now that a hire made to generate headlines has become a high-profile fiasco. Summitt, the 25-year-old son of legendary former Tennessee women's basketball coach Pat Summitt, resigned from his job at Louisiana Tech on Thursday, citing an unspecified inappropriate relationship.

"I am profoundly disappointed in myself for engaging in a relationship that has negatively affected the people I love, respect and care about the most," Summitt said in a statement. "My hope, plans and prayers are to repair those relationships. I am appreciative of the opportunity I was given to coach at Louisiana Tech. I am heartbroken that my time has ended in Ruston, but because of my respect for the institution, it is best that I resign."

The story is that he apparently got a player pregnant. If that is true, he'll never coach women's basketball again.

It's bad, but not really as bad as it sounds, imo. He (and the university) should have thought more about hiring a 25 year old to coach 18-22 year olds of the opposite sex. It seems like a recipe for disaster. I honestly hadn't kept up and assumed he was an assistant somewhere. I think he was also married too, so that's doubly bad. As Wave said, I'd be highly surprised if he ever coaches womens sports again.

Originally Posted by Northman

You would think having a mother who was a great coach at Tennessee would not allow himself to get into a mess like this.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-...035055334.html

I'm not sure that usually has much to do with is. Didn't Elway's son go all Johnny Manziel on a girl? It actually seems like the offspring of great people tend to screw up. I still don't think anyone expected this though.

Is she hot?