FAIR WINDS.

With the end of the college basketball season come the coaching changes.

Sue Semrau, the longest-tenured head coach in the ACC and Florida State’s all-time winningest coach, announced Monday that she is retiring as head women’s basketball coach at Florida State University. The Associated Press, WBCA and ESPNW National Coach of the Year in 2015, Semrau guided the Seminoles to 16 NCAA Tournaments, Elite Eight appearances in 2010, 2015 and 2017, and was voted ACC Coach of the Year four times over her 24 seasons.

It's hard to perform consistently well for that long in a sport with a serious Pareto distribution of talent.  "Twenty seasons on one job, where even in the non-revenue sports headquarters' impatience often manifests itself.  Northern Illinois are on their fifth head coach since Sue Semrau and Jane Albright headed to Madison to develop Badgerball." That was several years ago and Northern Illinois continue to muddle in middling mid-major mediocrity, as the conference generally does, a few runs to the round of sixteen notwithstanding.  Florida State were not in a good place at the end of the 1997 season. 

Well done, Coach Sue.