Scholarship table
next order of duty, check the eight incoming recruits. Then some transfers from ND.
Big news. That scoreboard had been horribly substandard. Chick and I have talked about that for 2 years. Glad it's happening.
She was really fun to watch at the state tournament. I hope she still gives MU a shot because she'd have the keys to the team right away as a freshman and also a coach that almost assuredly isn't going anywhere in the next four years. That said, I completely understand her decision to look around with Kieger moving on.
Duffy announces her 3 assistants today - Vernette Skeete and Scott Merritt are two of Kieger's assistants retained joined by Justine Raterman from Duffy's staff at Miami:https://gomarquette.com/news/2019/4/18/womens-basketball-duffy-announces-assistant-coaching-staff.aspx?path=wbballShemera Williams has an offer from Kentucky she tweeted about and is visiting there this weekend - no idea if she's still considering MU or not. And I haven't seen anything about the other incoming recruits yet.
Great job keeping the assistants. Had heard Scott was PSU-bound and was assuming Vernette was too.
Video board installation photo on twitter.
I found this line in the press release to be a little condescending. I hope she signed off on it:
Another Marquette recruit who has apparently gotten a release from her LOI is Destiny Strother:https://twitter.com/stormAAU/status/1118922332242890757It does say she will be meeting with the new MU staff. Shemera Williams is the other recruit who appears to have been released from her LOI. I haven't heard about any of the other 5 recruits asking to be released - Sharna Ayres from Australia enrolled at MU in January so I'm not including her in the count for recruits.
NLI. There is no such think as a "LOI."
Local player Shemera Williams who had been the highest rated recruit in Kieger's original signed class for 2019-2020 announced today that she's going to Virginia next season:https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/college/marquette/2019/05/21/former-marquette-recruit-shemera-williams-chooses-virginia/3753523002/https://twitter.com/_Swilliams10/status/1130940226401177601Virginia is one of the schools she originally considered before choosing Marquette.This article reinforces that there's still a lot of unknowns about who will be playing at Marquette next season. Of the 8 originally signed players, two have landed at other schools and one has confirmed she's still coming to Marquette despite the coaching change. Destiny Strother's club team posted she was reopening her recruitment but I haven't heard anything about her picking a school yet. And it hasn't been announced if the remaining 4 recruits are still coming to Marquette or not.
More importantly the article tells us that future Wojo replacement, Scott Merritt, was retained on MUWBB's assistant coaching staff.