Of course. Many teams have lost a bunch of transfers in recent years. I feel like the revolving door started at UA before the transfer portal really went crazy though.
Thinking on it for a second, Barnes built her initial success in Tucson almost entirely on incoming transfers.
While she had some key transfers like McDonald, the core of her best teams were recruited, assisted by transfers. Then she started to over collect transfers, then she changed her philosophy. Cunningham, Dew, Jones, Williams and Swann are all recruits, as well as 2 foreign players. Beh is originally a transfer, but was recruited to return for her extra year.
The transfers left for a bunch of reasons, some with Barnes blessing, some not so willingly, some were big losses, some not so much. It all comes back to what is really my core disagreement with the coaching - the handling of the players. Yeah, Conner was great, but was only a sub and never given any indication she would be more than that. Gret Asi never got a look in Tucson. Adia has wanted players to wait their turn, and that just isn't the way it is. I like Isis Beh a lot, but is she really a starter? And Paulina Paris just doesn't do it for me.
Rather than take up more of the thread with a separate post - just a comment for
@azfan - we were season ticket holders from when Vivian arrived at Rutgers until we moved west. We were one of 10 fans at Rutgers WNIT win about 10 years back. While she probably couldn't have named us, Viv knew us, as we attended many away games, have a mutual friend, my wife was active in the fan club, etc. We were also part of the table of fans at her WBB Hall of Fame induction, and while we could never have afforded to attend her Springfield induction, we did receive a personal gift from one of her former assistants commemorating that event. I said - and will stand by it - that some of the in-game issues we saw at Rutgers are not hugely different from what we see at Arizona. As I said, the background causes are not quite the same, but they caused Vivian what we called the CViv headache just as they do to Adia.
And regarding the injured ref - we had that happen at Rutgers years ago, Denise Brooks I think but am not sure. Running and tore her ACL. Got up, tried to run, and nope. Out the rest of the season, obviously. She's still around, FWIW, having survived some serious medical issues a few years back as well.
