 One alleged "Flutie Effect", this one related to men's basketball, occurred at Gonzaga University at the turn of the 21st century.In the mid-1990s, freshman enrollment hovered around 500 students annually, including a total of 569 as late as 1998.Longtime school benefactor Jack McCann, who had joined the school's board of trustees that year, would say in a 2017 interview that "the school was in real trouble."