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Message: [QUOTE="bballnut90, post: 3826283, member: 2117"] It's a major head scratcher. When they program was decent in the last 90s (made NCAAs maybe 50% of the time, and always lost in 1st or 2nd round), they averaged 7000-10000 fans per game. Jane Albright did a lot to get fans amped up for the season and also recruited extremely well. She wasn't great at developing talent or in game coaching, and once her recruiting dried up the team struggled. She had a great assistant early on in Sue Semrau who left for a head coaching job at Florida State and has been an amazing coach there. The current coach is Jonathan Tsipis who is a former ND associate head coach and was able to capitalize on picking up Jonquel Jones and bolted once she left. Nina Smith transferred to some small college I believe in Iowa. She had the potential to be a Courtney Paris type of player with a ton of size and strength inside with good touch around the basket. Word back in the day was she went to Wisconsin over Tennessee since she wanted to have a full college experience and knew her life would be a lot more regimented had she played for Pat. Wisconsin should've been really good when they had Sims/Stomski/Moore/Smith all in the lineup together but they couldn't get past the first round. [/QUOTE]