Women's Hoops Blog

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Friday, December 09, 2005

Voepel weighs in on the Rene Portland- Jen Harris maelstrom:

"A victory over Liberty would have meant a 20-win season the year after losing star Kelly Mazzante. That would have been quite satisfactory for the program. So it appears Portland was willing to use Harris just long enough to try to get that.

"Penn State has stuck behind its long-term employee, of course, and not the young woman who came there to represent the school and get an education. Welcome to college athletics... When relationships go bad between a player and a coach, almost all of the time it's the player who's sent packing. Sometimes, deservedly so. But is this one of those times?"

Read the whole thing. Ted fills in the backstory here.