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[QUOTE="nwhoopfan, post: 2895875, member: 7894"]
Okay, but OSU's Athletic Dept. budget is nothing compared to many of their Pac 12 competitors, and Corvallis is considered the second most backwater location in the conference next to Pullman.  They definitely don't have any competitive advantages compared to their conference mates.  Rueck took over in 2010.  Pac 12 Network didn't launch until 2012.  Back then there was only Fox Sports Northwest (morphed into current ROOT Sports), and it had fairly spotty coverage of women's hoops.

You have to make a distinction between what the Big East was when Geno took over in 1985 (not much in women's hoops) and the Pac 12 in 2010.  Who was UConn competing against?  No Notre Dame or Rutgers or Louisville at the time.  Stanford had been the best program out West for several decades, that's who OSU was chasing down.  That's definitely apples and oranges.

Really there's 2 different things here.  Turning UConn into a national powerhouse was remarkable.  Turning them into the class of the Big East as it existed back then is less so.  OSU isn't quite a national powerhouse, but taking them from a doormat to the top of the Pac 12 is quite an accomplishment.
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