Contrary to the party line, the vote-of-lukewarm-confidence given Lisa Stone by the UW Athletic Board on Friday is indeed a significant development in the women’s basketball program.
From this vantage point, it triggered flashbacks to the short-sighted approach taken a few years ago by administrators, whose public humiliation of Stone’s predecessor tore away the last vestiges of a once-promising program and played a sizable role in the mess Stone inherited three years ago.
This is far from an endorsement of Stone, who to date has failed to prove that the approach that made her one of the winningest coaches in Division III history is adaptable in the Big Ten….