I was intrigued to see how Molly Miller was doing since moving from Drury (where her record was something like 180-17 over six years and she won consecutive D2 COY honors her last two seasons with a 67-1 record) to Grand Canyon University. She had the nation's highest win percentage at over .900 when she was hired at GCU and still ranks fourth (behind Marshall's Kim Stephens, Auriemma, and Mulkey).
At GCU, they have won 18, 22, and 21 games respectively since she arrived. They lost to Oregon by 8 this year, playing pretty much even all the way until Oregon pulled away late. She plays an intense, pressing defensive style and likes the 3-pointer.
One understandable knock on coaches at smaller schools is that they haven't developed/established the recruiting contacts with the top-tier players. At least assistants at the successful D1 schools have that experience if not actually being the main recruiters.
As for attracting eyeballs, let's just say that Mulkey's most outrageous Mardi Gras costume couldn't draw the tv cameras' attention away from Coach Miller (he said in a grandfatherly misogynistic way).