If Tyler Summitt had the job he deserved to have, there is no guarantee he would not have done the things he is alleged to have done.
As the director of operations or a low-level assistant coach in a women’s program at a mid-major school, he still would have been around young women of college age. He would not have had the same influence as he did once named the head coach of the Louisiana Tech women’s team, but he would have had the same access.
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So could he, in the job he deserved, have become involved in what Summitt called “a relationship that has negatively affected people I love, respect and care about most" — reportedly an affair with a player on the team he coached?