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...Summitt, coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols, is the winningest coach in college-basketball history
...Jane Garvey's conference room on Wednesday morning, I got to thinking about Vince Lombardi. Or better yet, Pat Summitt...
...That's where Pat Summitt comes...
...Summitt, of course, is the domineering and absurdly successful coach of the University of Tennessee women's basketball team, one of the best the game has ever seen. She is a blunt-spoken, hypercompetitive perfectionist. If her charges don't perform, they're gone. What does she know about airplanes? Not much besides nearly having a baby in one, at altitude, when she ignored serious labor pains and went on a recruiting trip. But Summitt would eat a swaggering airline CEO for breakfast (along with her usual nails...
...more important, the job has to change. No more underpaid punching bag. Cash some of Dick Cheney's stock options and get someone of Summitt's stature, change the title from administrator to president of the FAA, and simultaneously put through the paperwork that allows her to overrule the "real" President on any aviation matter. And make the FAA president's job comparable to a Supreme Court Justice. Yes, a life term. (Don't worry, there isn't actually anyone who would stay that long). Then tell Summitt she can go back to hoops as soon as Newark Airport goes...