[Van Hagar]

This isn’t as uncommon a practice as you might believe. Scholarships are year to year. My daughter played softball at UK, suffered a career ending injury midway through her freshman year, and UK would not renew her scholarship going forward. Maybe under the circumstances we could have fought it, but she didn’t want to continue there just for academics. My point is, this happens. I hate it, and it’s a bad look for the program, but it’s a part of the ‘business’ that college athletics really is. It’s what can you do for the university, not what can the university do for you.

I think what really galls me about this situation is Rowe only has one year left, and UK had almost no bench this year to begin with. Her knee injuries have probably derailed her chances of being a real contributor, but is Brooks bringing in so many new players there isn’t room for someone who has dedicated three years to the program? It really sucks.