Florida’s women’s basketball coach was fiery, and more than a little intense. It led to a cycle that became predictable: Promising players entering the program, the Gators making some noise with those players, and then progress being undone by waves of transfers.
The athletic director responsible for installing that coach atop the program that routinely lags far behind the rest of Florida’s phenomenal lineup of teams would stand by that hiring and the program, too — maybe for too long, and possibly for sentimental reasons.
And it would all end poorly, with Florida looking to pick up the pieces after an ignominious end to a tenure that was arguably two or three years longer than it should have been.