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Message: [QUOTE="jake0414, post: 4767119, member: 10619"] Average attendance for Stanford and UCLA still wrong. Stanford played 19 home games with a total attendance of 78,007 and an average of 4106 per game not 2,861 (UCLA’s average). 51,489 attended UCLA’s 18 home games averaging 2,861 per game instead of the 1,037 listed (USC’s average). Basketball and especially WBB has always been a distant second (and third) to USC football. It seems USC President (“Don’t address me as Carol) Foalt has increased the university’s emphasis and support of USC WBB. The WBB program went through a period of lackluster results towards the end of Cynthia Cooper’s tenure that continued with HC Mark Trakh. Gottlieb has started to get the Trojans relevant again as evidenced by making the NCAA tournament last year and getting commitments from top local talent the likes of Juju Watkins and Rayah Marshall. I don’t know if I’d characterize Gottlieb as overrated. Remains to be seen if Gottlieb has the coaching chops to make USC a sustained top tier program. Gottlieb coached the Cal Bears to the 2013 Final Four, albeit with her predecessor Joanne Boyle’s recruits. The Cal program made the tournament for most years of Gottlieb’s tenure but got eliminated early. Recruiting didn’t keep up. When she bolted for the NBA she left her successor Charmin Smith with a weak roster. Cal’s lack of recruiting success could very well be an institution problem - Haas Pavilion is quite dated. I don’t know about Cal’s practice facilities but it certainly hasn’t made any major upgrades. Cal Athletics seems, with a couple of exceptions, a mess. I think it good for USC WBB to find ongoing success as a competitive rivalry with UCLA (my alma mater) will advance interest in WBB in Los Angeles. [/QUOTE]

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