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the volleyball situation by Melanzana
is illustrates how unjust the firing of Tracey Coin in women's lacrosse was.
She had a number of NCAA appearances and wins, been to a Final Four, won the Big East -- which actually was an accomplishment in lacrosse unlike in volleyball -- and then was the first Olympic sports coach ever to be fired. Just so unlike Notre Dame and completely unexplainable.
Compare the women's lacrosse program under Coin to the volleyball program under Brown -- or even to softball, track, cross country, golf...or any sports other than women's basketball, women's soccer and women's tennis.
If Notre Dame is going to start firing Olympic sports coach, Coin certainly shouldn't have been the first to go...nor the second or third or ...