Tara Washington glanced down at her phone as it started to buzz.
It was an incoming call from her daughter, Delicia Washington, a freshman at the University of Florida.
“Momma?”
A trembling voice was on the other side of the phone. Her mother could hear the tears and distress in her daughter’s voice.
“What’s going on?” Tara asked.
Amanda Butler, UF’s women’s basketball coach for the past 10 years, had just been dismissed by Gators athletic director Scott Stricklin following another lackluster season for the Gators.
Delicia, the team’s starting shooting guard, was devastated.