Week 3

[KnightBridgeAZ]

I know you have your feelings, but Barnes got fans excited about Arizona basketball. They were packing the building and they were loud. Diminishing returns, but fans are pretty short sighted if they forget what it was like before she revitalized the program.

Attendance so far is averaging about 5300, down 1000 from last season and way down from a peak of around 7800 during Barnes' tenure. Maybe the fans in Arizona aren't THAT excited about the change?

Some fans aren't. But oddly, on the women's side, only the core fans are sophisticated about women's basketball. It will be shocking to most of them when the Big 12 schedule is much, much less successful. And I'll be shocked if it is anything better than mediocre success.

And I keep reading about the success being when McDonald was here. Well, duh - big stars can be very helpful for winning. I don't think Adia did a good job putting together teams (and possibly developing players and certainly motivating them) but for all that the fact is that many players were quite good and exciting, and she kept a winning record. I don't think she can be judged for this year any more than I think Becky can. The future will tell.