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Message: [QUOTE="TheFarmFan, post: 3066397, member: 9403"] I also wonder what value there is to comparing teams this far back. They have Duke as a team "on the rise," but I think every Duke fan experientially feels their team has been on the decline for the past decade. And a school like Long Beach State hasn't been relevant since any of today's players were born. So what? It'd also be helpful to have them mark out coaching changes: UConn, Stanford, Tennessee, Baylor, and Notre Dame have all had their strong eras during a single coach's oversight. So does this say something about these schools, or about Geno, Tara, Pat, Kim, and Muffitt? Or does it suggest that hey, now that there's major money in women's sports, the same schools that are good at other sports will become better at women's basketball, and the third-tier sports schools that cornered the market (Louisiana Tech, Long Beach State, Old Dominion) won't be able to keep up. Without an attempt to explain the correlation or causation, the piece is just a bunch of charts. More than anything, though, it's a good reminder that every program is one coaching change away from a possible decline into irrelevance, something Lady Vols fans have been experiencing firsthand year after year after year. [/QUOTE]