Lute Files for Divorce

1. So which one of them cheated on the other?

2. Too bad the Weekly wasn’t the first with the story. All of Tucson Journalism fell in the mud on this saga.

3. Fell in the mud….in terms of not getting a gossipy story?

4. This revelation raises more questions than it answers. Lute didn’t even take three weeks off when his wife died. Why is he taking a year off because of a divorce? It’s not like there would be too many legal complications surrounding it because the couple had a pre-nuptial agreement. There MUST be more to this story than just a divorce.

   And yes, by treating Lute with kid gloves, the Tucson media definitely did drop the ball on this one, pun very much intended. It’s not a gossipy story if it involves the most famous public figure in Tucson history (not to mention one of the highest paid, if not the highest paid, UA employee) and his ability to perform his job.

5. “Lute didn’t even take three weeks off when his wife died. Why is he taking a year off because of a divorce?”

   Well, yes…that’s the point: Life can be experienced as a discrete (broken up into sequential parts) thing or a continuous flow kind of thing. Maybe finally he’s learning that now in the context of his personal life. Maybe stuff from his first marriage never got resolved and tripped them up.

6. Okay, well, I suppose the media did drop the ball. The Tucson Weekly did write an article asking “Where the hell is Lute?”

7. I took 2 hours of personal time to get a divorce and my boss (at the time) chewed my a$$ for being late to work. Same guy who’d told his staff to leave our personal lives at the door — so why the heck should he be surprised that a staff member wouldn’t miss a beat at work while: being separated, filing for divorce, selling a house and getting it all finalzied?
   MEN.

8. Y’know what? Unless Lute is absconding with state funds, breaking NCAA rules or dallying with underage children, what he does is none of our business. I say this not as a Lute fan–personally, I think college athletics should be abolished–but as somebody who’s sick of gossip-mongering and privacy invasion passing for journalism.

9. Lute’s an old-fashioned kind of guy. Seems a divorce would be totally out of character or hard to accept.
   Bobbi’s death was expected and from what we saw over their years together, a quick return would’ve been what she would’ve wanted.
   Around the office when it was announced that Lute was “taking time off for a perconal matter”, the women all said it was divorce, the guys thought it was something to do with one of the kids.

10. It is pretty insensitive to criticize someone who is obviously going through a tough time, whether it is a divorce or the death of a spouse or anything, and apparently that is what I did, albeit unintentionally. Sorry about that.
    But you are right, Red Star. Maybe Lute’s divorce and Bobbi’s death are somehow emotionally connected for him. Or maybe Lute is just sick of coaching and is using this as an opportunity to exit. Who knows? I certainly don’t because the media has been mute on these topics.
    I agree with James that the kind of gossip-mongering that we are engaging in right now helps no one. But we wouldn’t be gossip-mongering if the public was made aware of some of the facts behind this story.
    Yes, Lute is a private citizen and I certainly can’t argue that his right to privacy can be violated because he’s famous. But the media have an obligation to inform the public about the issues that affect them or that they care about and, in my opinion, this is definitely one of them. If there were a reporter in the Tucson press corps that had a close journalist/source relationship with Lute, I think he/she could persuade him to sit down for an exclusive interview and let him tell his side of the story. In fact, it would be in Lute’s interest to do this so he could put an end to the rumors on message boards like these.

11. “In fact, it would be in Lute’s interest to do this so he could put an end to the rumors on message boards like these.”

    The more rumors we let fly, the bigger Lute’s incentive to go public and put an end to those rumors!

    With that in mind, here’s some stuff I heard about Lute Olson:

    — Lute Olson eats Oreos by scooping the inner filling into a triple-decker. Then he nibbles around the edges of the black cookies so that the “sandwich” is lean and full of creamy goodness that squishes out when he bites down. He gives the extra crumble-cookie parts to his dogs.
    — Lute Olson is rumored to prefer putting the toilet paper roll on in such a way that the tissue rotates forward and down instead of from the back.
    — Lute Olson got a “tramp stamp” on his lower back one weekend when he was drunk on the itty bitty bottles of alcohol they had in his hotel minibar (during an away game). The tattoo is of a sneaker with lines radiating out from it. I heard it’s pretty hot.
    — Lute Olson has a fetishy obsession with Suzanne Sommers and is rumored to watch DVDs of “Three’s Company” while rubbing himself with muscle relaxant absconded from the U of A gym. His wife once became very upset when he moaned “Oh, Chrissy” during an intimate moment.
    — Lute Olson sometimes goes into online chat rooms as a woman because he gets a perverse kick out of all the inappropriate attention.
    — Lute Olson didn’t torture his pets as a child, but he did torment them much more than is healthy. It’s rumored he once got in trouble for force-feeding asparagus to a cat just so he could check to see if the litter box smelled funny later on.
    — Lute Olson is rumored to have once been videotaped drunk, with his shirt off, eating a large messy cheeseburger.

    I heard these things from a little bird on the grapevine. They’re all completely true!

12. Wow, what a scoop! How did you find out all this info, Sam? Especially the stuff about the Oreos; truly outrageous! What kind of a sick freak does that to innocent sandwich cookies? I’ll never watch UA basketball the same way again.

13. Lute used to take photographs of his daughters Mary-Kate and Ashley in their underwear.

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