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For Lynne Andrew and the women's basketball program, the wait goes on.

Unfortunately.

Andrew said she tried to make this process as quick and painless as possible, but that it hasn't quite worked that way.

“I purposely resigned when I had my last evaluation with (athletic director) Forrest (Karr)," Andrew said. "I purposely resigned because the last thing I wanted to do was hurt the program.

"I'm waiting for them (UAF human resources) to say, 'Hey here, this is what we want you to do,' because I've never been in this situation before.”

Part of the problem on the hill could be the resignation of hockey coach Doc DelCastillo, which seems to have pushed women's basketball to the back burner.

“I never knew this hockey thing was coming down and then HR was just telling me how busy they were,” Andrew said.

The point I was trying to make (maybe poorly) in the last blog post is that this is good for no one.

Not Andrew, who has a hard time looking for a new job when still technically employed by the university, and not the girls on the basketball team, who now have to wait longer to see who their new coach is.

(An aside, in the last blog post, I considered the possibility that Andrew 'holding the program hostage.' The point of this was to say it was a possibility but to reject it. From the feedback I've gotten, I didn't make that as clear as I should have. That WASN'T my guess.)

But, while a source told me the hold up was trying to get the best package for Andrew upon her dismissal, Andrew says that that is not what she wants.

“I'm trying to move on," she said. "I feel like people are making all these judgments.”

“I have to sever my ties and start looking," she added. "I need employers to call my references and to have everything finished at this end. I've always wanted what is best for the program.”

But right now, everyone waits.