Posted by LadyVolFanForever on May 7, 2008 at 5:29 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Welcome back Daedra !

This is really cool for us Lady Vol fans.....how many other universities have 2 retired jersey players now as part of the coaching staff !!!

A real challenge with all the newbies this summer but I can't wait. Go Lady Vols !

Posted by JoJoSchmo on May 7, 2008 at 6:01 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Congrats, Daedra!

Can't wait to cheer you on!

Posted by lewhs93 on May 7, 2008 at 6:13 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Pat only wants the best and she gets her wish.Who wouldn't want to work with the best.Daedra will be able to step in and start coaching the newcomers the way Pat wants it done.GREAT CHOICE,but what else would you expect from Pat.

Posted by BSweet on May 7, 2008 at 6:47 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Welcome home Daedra!

Posted by UTfan4life on May 7, 2008 at 6:56 p.m. (Suggest removal)

welcome

Posted by ncvol on May 7, 2008 at 8:02 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Praise the Lord and we have Holly staying, too.

Posted by AllLadyVol on May 7, 2008 at 8:15 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Oh Dear Lord. 3 legends on one bench. :)

Daedra what color of Mercedes would you prefer?! :)
Welcome back.

Posted by Musicman74 on May 7, 2008 at 8:52 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Again Welcome home, Daedra.
GO BIG ORANGE!!!

Posted by BigOrangeVol on May 8, 2008 at 12:17 a.m. (Suggest removal)

******** NIGHT TRAIN is back!!! *********

Now we can teach the post players how to rebound, block shots and get to the foul line. No softies in the paint anymore! Baugh and Fuller as well as Johnson and Brewer will come alive. Pat, Holly and Daedra; I wouldn't want to cross either of them! Who's gonna play "good cop" now... Dean?

Cow College hiring Mark Simons is our gain! Nothing on the Auburn website, campus newspaper, Opelika newspaper or any of the Alabama newspapers about Train coming home. Could have something to do with why their team sucks!

Posted by anosikefan on May 8, 2008 at 6:39 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Night Train back in Ktown!!! Welcome Back Daedra!! Great choice I'm excited!

Posted by johnlg00 on May 8, 2008 at 9:39 a.m. (Suggest removal)

What you said, BOV! I think Daedra will bring out the "nasty" in our post game in a big way! She will have lots of good material to work with. If we had to lose Nikki Caldwell, it is great we could replace her with one of the all-time great Lady Vols. Her hiring, along with Holly deciding to stay, has me REALLY looking forward to next year. GO LADY VOLS!!! NUMBER NINE IN '09!!!

Posted by volboy81 on May 8, 2008 at 11:19 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Welcome Home, Daedra!!
I loved watching you play and am glad youre back here coaching. Lets get #9 in '09!!!!
GO LADY VOLS!!

Posted by 98reax on May 8, 2008 at 11:20 a.m. (Suggest removal)

It's high time we had a nasty post presence. We've seen a number of finesse 5-spots over the years. It's time we use a real banger at the post position. Not since Tif Johnson, Dana Johnson and Vonda Ward have we seen those big 'lunch pale bangers' in there willing to take heads off to get in position to board and/or block.

Night Train was one who wore her hard hat to practice and to the game. Catchings was a lot like Charles in her work ethic. Train left the court with not a dry thread remaining on her uni. That's the kind of hard work and determination that will teach these young'uns to get fired up and refuse to lose. A trio of All Americans on the sidelines, WOW! I can't wait for hoop season.

Posted by 98reax on May 8, 2008 at 11:41 a.m. (Suggest removal)

excerpt from Summitt leaves mark on game, players patsummitt.blogspot.com
04-02-05

Charles-Furlow was in her junior season at Tennessee when she one day reached a breaking point. It had been a bad day at school, but she obviously had to practice.

"Pat really hit a nerve that day," Charles-Furlow said. "She kept riding me and riding me, and I finally yelled, 'I am doing the best I can do!' The arena became silent. My teammates looked at me like, 'No she didn't (just do that).'

"Pat called me over. She was kneeling on one knee. She said, 'Not in a million years did I think you would disrespect me.' I said, 'Disrespect you?'"

The two women spoke the next day, and Charles-Furlow apologized.

"She told me, 'The day you should worry is the day I say nothing to you,'" Charles-Furlow said. "I had a better love for her after that as a person and as a friend. Once you have gone through that program, you are prepared for anything that happens to you in life. And you're not going to walk out of Tennessee without your degree. I'm glad Pat is that way. I think if she had been nice to me (on the court), I don't think I'd be the person I am today."

Posted by fifet on May 8, 2008 at 3:04 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I said Holly would not leave she has no drive and is lazy.

Posted by tenn32rebel on May 8, 2008 at 5:54 p.m. (Suggest removal)

fifet, go post on the UCONN site where they will love your tacky opinions!

No person can be around Pat for 23 days and be lazy, much less 23 years!!!

Post something that will show some thought, IF YOU CAN!

Posted by ncvol on May 8, 2008 at 8:05 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Ditto on what tenn32rebel said to fifet.

Posted by BigOrangeVol on May 9, 2008 at 12:38 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Fife that is right up there with your post on CP3:

"Glad she is going,she got way too much media attention which is a distraction for the rest of the team. Besides she had the ball taken out of her hand way too many times for as good as she is suppose too be."

Those two National Championships sure are distracting!

Thank goodness we have the benefit of your stellar insight into the Lady Vols program. Any more golden nuggets of info?

Posted by ge446 on May 9, 2008 at 4 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Fifet, I can only imagine what that stands for. Why don't you post your biography on this sight and then we will know how much ambition and enegey you have and how successful you are. Are you a member of any hall of fame? I believe we could probably come up with one for you.

Posted by ge446 on May 9, 2008 at 4 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Fifet, I can only imagine what that stands for. Why don't you post your biography on this sight and then we will know how much ambition and enegey you have and how successful you are. Are you a member of any hall of fame? I believe we could probably come up with one for you.

Posted by chainbreaker on May 10, 2008 at 9 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Do you folks responding to fifet know what a 'troll' is? Feeding it won't make it laugh itself to death; the only way to deal with it is to completely ignore it.

But probably most everyone already knows that--just a little restraint, folks, is usually all it takes. :-)