EWU player departure needs better perspective

Quick — somebody get the name of the bus that just ran over Eastern Washington University women’s basketball head coach Wendy Schuller and her program.

And get the names of those individuals who tossed her under that careening, out-of-control coach. Wait, we have those — Cece Pearl, Marly Anderson, Haley Saner, Kiana Brown and Jade Redmon.

Schuller’s coaching style was implicated as the reason, or part of the reason, these five players chose to leave the Eagles program en masse in a story published May 14 in the Spokesman-Review. Redmon gave S-R reporter Thomas Clouse “a lot of negativity and...