[Lorcan]

Bob, I think the “falling off” has more to do with the massive struggle that they had this past season. Whether this was an anomaly or a part of a larger trend is up for some debate. The Domers lost Jackie Young to the WNBA, Abby Prohaska was diagnosed with a condition that prevented her from playing, Mikayla Vaughn was off-injured despite the promise she had. The transfer of Ali Patberg to Indiana all those years ago also contributed to the disaster last year despite the arrival of reinforcements in Marta Sneizek. They only had 6-7 healthy players at times throughout the year, which is mind boggling. For example, even with the Dodson injury, and the niggling knocks that other players had, we still had plenty of reserves to have a pretty good year. At least Notre Dame didn’t lose to Western Illinois, although getting sent off into the sunset by losing to Pittsburgh is a pretty bad taste.

[Lorcan]

Bob, I think the “falling off” has more to do with the massive struggle that they had this past season. Whether this was an anomaly or a part of a larger trend is up for some debate. The Domers lost Jackie Young to the WNBA, Abby Prohaska was diagnosed with a condition that prevented her from playing, Mikayla Vaughn was off-injured despite the promise she had. The transfer of Ali Patberg to Indiana all those years ago also contributed to the disaster last year despite the arrival of reinforcements in Marta Sneizek. They only had 6-7 healthy players at times throughout the year, which is mind boggling. For example, even with the Dodson injury, and the niggling knocks that other players had, we still had plenty of reserves to have a pretty good year. At least Notre Dame didn’t lose to Western Illinois, although getting sent off into the sunset by losing to Pittsburgh is a pretty bad taste.