While the college men\u2019s basketball season is still over a month away, that doesn\u2019t mean we can\u2019t start getting excited for it. With the team\u2019s\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n

After losing to the University of Connecticut in the Elite Eight in the Women\u2019s NCAA tournament in March 2021, Mulkey suggested that they would get rid of COVID-19 testing because she thought that it could ruin a student-athlete’s chances of playing in the Final Four. However, this was during the pandemic and people were still getting sick and dying at high numbers.<\/p>\n

“After the games today and tomorrow, there’s four teams left, I think, on the men’s side and the women’s side,” Mulkey said after Baylor\u2019s loss to UCONN. “They need to dump the COVID testing. Wouldn’t it be a shame to keep COVID testing, and then you got kids that test positive or something, and they don’t get to play in the Final Four? So you just need to forget the COVID tests and get the four teams playing in each Final Four and go battle it out.”<\/p>\n

Mulkey tested positive for COVID-19 two months prior to her press conference after having a holiday gathering with friends and family. Baylor had one game scratched and two others were postponed. When Mulkey returned to coach her team, she told reporters that the NCAA would continue the season because of the “almighty dollar,” not caring about players and coaches’ safety.<\/p>\n

“The season will continue on. It’s called the almighty dollar,” Mulkey said in January 2021. “The NCAA has to have the almighty dollar from the men’s tournament. The almighty dollar is more important than the health and welfare of me, the players, or anybody else.”<\/p>\n

Having openly gay athletes doesn’t hurt recruiting. Coaches not supporting their players does. <\/p>\n

When you have former players that you coached coming after you after you refuse to comment or even give your thoughts and prayers to one of the greatest players you’ve coached being detained in a country that is at odds with the United States, recruits see that.<\/p>\n

When you tell players you can\u2019t be gay because you believe it will hurt your own self-image, recruits see that. When you are silent on the murder of George Floyd as well as other racial injustices, recruits see that.<\/p>\n

“Kim Mulkey is my dark horse for person in sports that you never want to cross,” Fagan said. “She might not even be the dark horse. She might just be the No. 1 person in sports that is terrifying.”<\/p>\nFavorite <\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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