Disagree. This sport is one of the higher profile sports in DI athletics. Football(#1), Mens Basketball(2), Womens Basketball(3), Baseball(4), and then Softball(5) nation wide. UL certainly does not have this order because our Womens Basketball team has not been competive for most of its existence.
Our womens program has not reached the point where buying out a two year contract would cost the overall athletic budget all that much.
I too agree this coach has gone in the wrong direction. For two players like this to up and quit and one being a Senior is really sad. This situation at the very least needs to be looked into.
The womens basketball program at a University can have a nice amount of positive visablity, ours is having the opposite visability.