She doesn't give a shite what social media and the ever virtue-signaling media thinks or says about her. And she has the decades of success to allow her to do so without any fear whatsoever she may lose her opportunity to coach because of it. So why should she care? Are LSU fans going to suddenly stop supporting her team? Perhaps a couple of losers who are more concerned about internal feelings of moral superiority will. But everyone else who enjoys watching winning basketball won't. And why should she give any scintilla of a shite if a fan in Iowa, Arizona, Nebraska, etc, doesn't like her? She's the coach for LSU.

But you know what does matter? If her players respect her. I guarantee you that intensity in her team is burning high right now and, in part, that is because they KNOW, without any question, their HC is with them in the fight and not afraid to tell anyone that.

That wasn't even really a "fight". It was a little bit of talking, pushing and shoving. ANYONE who has played competitive sports knows that sometimes that controlled aggression you have to play with boils over. If that never happened to you then you either never played sports or where happily a benchwarmer. Actual fights in basketball were WAY more commonplace than they are now. And the coaches in that era weren't PR conscious pussies about it.

Over the last 20-30 years society has allowed the PR conscious losers and everyone-deserves-a-trophy mindset to permeate into sports. Those are the ones "appalled" by the event. But anyone who is a competitor knows things like that sometimes happen. Whether it be on the floor of the SEC Tournament or the YMCA down the street. It gets cooled down and people go back to playing without feeling the need to apologize and justify getting a little overheated in the moment. Hell, I got into fights with some of my very best friends on a basketball court...and we are still great friends because we knew is was just emotions boiling over a bit in the heat of the moment...not personal hate or dislike of one another.

Mulkey grew up in the prior era. So she feels no desire to have to apologize for being a competitor. No does she feel a desire to be silent when asked about it.