He knows how to put the pieces together and get whats best of them and if you can't take it you can go elsewhere he doesn't care if you are a Top 100 recruit (Delle Don, Walker, De'Janae Boykins, etc.) if you can't live up to the standards that he's set for his program you will sit or leave. Holly would never bench Russell (when she should have to send a message to her)
There are better players you could have used for your example. One of those was homesick and coming off injuries, and the other were 2 that he was none too happy to see go.
Sadie Edwards comes to mind as a better example.