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Message: [QUOTE="DefenseBB, post: 2652689, member: 7492"] I agree that they will struggle next year to be above .500 especially with so many of the Big10 teams having significant contributors coming back. Maryland (Brenda for all her quirks, knows how recruit and be relevent), Nebraska, Michigan and Minnesota seem to be solid and the last 3 are establishing good program platforms. Iowa is somewhat unknown to me but I know Gustafson is back so that's a pretty good starting point. PSU, Purdue, Rutgers, MSU are all meh to me and seem to be in mediocreville at best. Tpsis has in uphill battle there and is not having the impact he thought though it is only year 2. For me, Northwestern needs to move on from that longtime coach. My last comment is while Geno, Tara and Pat are the beacons of the WCBB game, their coaching trees are pretty lame. Tara has Charli Turner Thorne who has achieved fairly moderate success but other than that, meh...Now on the other hand, everyone's favorite target-Muffet McGraw does have a pretty impressive line of coaches who have gone on to good stuff. Kevin McGuff-OSU, Jonathan Tpsis-Minn, Coquese Washington at PSU, all in the Big10 and Niele Ivey will be a P5 head coach somewhere soon. I know some are going to come back with non-P5 names and even Carla Berube, who is easily the best of Geno's crew. Can she do it at a D1 school? To me, all the others are average at best and none are at P5 school so I am curious to say the least. [/QUOTE]