Could Kentucky Have Snagged Pat Summitt From Tennessee More Than 30 Years Ago?

This little women's basketball tidbit from the Knoxville News-Sentinel is gossipy and decades old, but far too delicious to not pass along:

Heard last night on the ESPN broadcast that Pat Summitt, then Pat Head, was nearly the coach at Kentucky in 1974 or 1975, save for Kentucky's supposed unwillingness to pay her moving expenses, calculated at $200.

That ESPN broadcast mentioned, by the way, would be Sunday's game, in which Summitt's Lady Vols beat Kentucky's Lady Wildcats, 70-62 to claim the SEC championship. Summitt, the winningest coach in men's or women's hoops in NCAA history, has 15 of those championships to her credit now, along with eight national titles, but hey, who wants to pay some lady's moving expenses just because she thinks she can coach a little basketball?