From the mailbag:

I take exception with your characterization of what happened last April in the MN women's basketball program as a "scandal". That is simply not an accurate term. The defection of five players and the ensuing fallout was painful to watch but there was absolutely no evidence of impropriety or immorality on the part of anyone associated with the program. No one, neither players nor coaches, were ever accused or even suspected of acting in a scandalous manner. It is a disservice to the program to characterize it as such.

It's not so clear to me that there weren't such allegations, public or otherwise, but fair enough. Each person can decide for herself what label fits.

(Trainwreck? Disaster? Implosion? Shitbox? Craptastic bonanza? An unfortunate confluence of several isolated and minor conflicts caused by nothing more than poor communication?)

It also perhaps should be noted again that I'm not interested in serving the program. I'm a Minnesota sports fan, but that doesn't mean that the Gophs get treated differently here from any other team.

Anyway, for some follow-up discussion of Voepel's article, see here and here.