Megan Duffy brought one young assistant with her from
by MPG (2020-05-06 10:44:40)
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Miami to Marquette. She retained two veteran Marquette assistants. The third Marquette assistant (an experienced recruiting coordinator) went with Carolyn Kieger to Penn State. As we know Megan Duffy went on to be voted Big East Coach of the Year for the 2109-20 season. I was surprised to learn that both of the assistants she retained left after the season to become assistants at Illinois. I haven't read why that would happen, although my first guess is that Illinois would offer higher salaries to assistants.

Penn State, by the way, had a terrible season as they finished Big Ten play with a 1 and 17 record. They also have four of their players in the transfer portal. Coquese did not leave that program in good shape.

Illinois was 2 and 16 in conference play with a four point win at PSU. You can see why they were looking to steal a couple of experienced coaches from the successful Marquette program.

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