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MUScoop => Hangin' at the Al => Topic started by: Marquette Fan on April 10, 2019, 07:32:06 AM
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That didn’t take long - Megan Duffy is the new Marquette Coach.
She played at Notre Dame and was most recently the head coach at Miami (OH). She was an assistant for awhile at Michigan.
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That didn’t take long - Megan Duffy is the new Marquette Coach.
She played at Notre Dame and was most recently the head coach at Miami (OH). She was an assistant for awhile at Michigan.
Not sure I can root for her
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So much irony that 19 days ago Miami/OH put out this video, extolling her:
https://www.youtube.com/v/5d8PnTv-AYM
https://miamiredhawks.com/coaches.aspx?rc=136
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So much irony that 19 days ago Miami/OH put out this video, extolling her:
https://www.youtube.com/v/5d8PnTv-AYM
https://miamiredhawks.com/coaches.aspx?rc=136
Buzz 2.0
JK Welcome, Coach Duffy! We've had some success with "Miami" coaches!
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https://gomarquette.com/news/2019/4/10/womens-basketball-marquette-names-megan-duffy-head-wbb-coach.aspx
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https://gomarquette.com/news/2019/4/10/womens-basketball-marquette-names-megan-duffy-head-wbb-coach.aspx
I found this line in the press release to be a little condescending. I hope she signed off on it:
She was one of just four rookie head coaches in 2017-18 to collect at least 20 wins and the only female to accomplish the feat.
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She seems like a great hire. Similar to Coach Kieger in a lot of ways (age, position, experience), but with the added benefit of having played professionally. Hopefully the quick hire keeps most of the incoming class on board.
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Did she eat Real Chili during the interviewing process?
It looks like MU was well-prepared and had a short list. Scholl reached into his ND roots for this one.
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Welcome to MU Coach Duffy!
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I found this line in the press release to be a little condescending. I hope she signed off on it:
I think it depends how one reads it. She is a Muffett disciple, so I took it as her way of saying she can do same or better than the dudes. I still think what the ND coach said the other day violates employment law so I hope Duffy doesn’t go down that path with her words.
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I think it depends how one reads it. She is a Muffett disciple, so I took it as her way of saying she can do same or better than the dudes. I still think what the ND coach said the other day violates employment law so I hope Duffy doesn’t go down that path with her words.
Can't we let people simply infer that? I mean, even if there's no picture, it is pretty apparent that the new coach is indeed a woman. After all, they use the pronoun "she" in the press release.
I don't think I am super sensitive about stuff like that, but that comment just smacks of "not bad for a girl!" or "We had several choices for head coach, but we chose the one that's a lady!"
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She undoubtedly read the release before it went out. She may have even wanted that point stressed.
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Can't we let people simply infer that? I mean, even if there's no picture, it is pretty apparent that the new coach is indeed a woman. After all, they use the pronoun "she" in the press release.
I don't think I am super sensitive about stuff like that, but that comment just smacks of "not bad for a girl!" or "We had several choices for head coach, buy we chose the one that's a lady!"
Again, I think it depends on what the intent is. She may of wanted that point emphasized. I don't know, I can't pretend to be in her mind or the SID who wrote it, but it would be stunning to not have her read it and approve it before it went out. I clearly get your POV by the way, and it is equally legitimate argument.
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I don't think I am super sensitive about stuff like that
I *think* you're being extra sensitive about this one. Just my opinion!
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Muffet has started a movement and Duffy supports her, simple as that. Welcome Coach Duffy!
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Kieger’s assistants deleted from the MU website.
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Muffet has started a movement and Duffy supports her, simple as that. Welcome Coach Duffy!
I think the movement is fine, but you can't say what Muffet said the other day in most places, not without being in violation of employment hiring laws. I'm surprised that hasn't also gotten traction, instead a lot of praise....maybe it is overall praise and ignoring the part about who she absolutely wouldn't hire. Interesting. For the record, 89% of the people on my team are women currently, I hire who I think the best people are for the job.
At any rate, welcome to Coach Duffy. Seems like a solid background. Hope she can build on the previous coach's success.
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Welcome coach Duffy! Hopefully she can build on what Keiger started
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I think the movement is fine, but you can't say what Muffet said the other day in most places, not without being in violation of employment hiring laws. I'm surprised that hasn't also gotten traction, instead a lot of praise....maybe it is overall praise and ignoring the part about who she absolutely wouldn't hire. Interesting. For the record, 89% of the people on my team are women currently, I hire who I think the best people are for the job.
At any rate, welcome to Coach Duffy. Seems like a solid background. Hope she can build on the previous coach's success.
I'm fine with them advocating for more women in their sport, I think it's a legitimate cause. Hopefully something can be implemented that most people can support as positive.
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I found this line in the press release to be a little condescending. I hope she signed off on it:
Really, hey?
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She sounds like a great hire, but I know people who know her and she loves ND of course, and may want to end up there. But who knows? She may just fall in love with Marquette!
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I think the movement is fine, but you can't say what Muffet said the other day in most places, not without being in violation of employment hiring laws. I'm surprised that hasn't also gotten traction, instead a lot of praise....maybe it is overall praise and ignoring the part about who she absolutely wouldn't hire. Interesting. For the record, 89% of the people on my team are women currently, I hire who I think the best people are for the job.
At any rate, welcome to Coach Duffy. Seems like a solid background. Hope she can build on the previous coach's success.
She aint running for office ya dipcrap!!
I applaud mcgraw fir understanding the position she is in and the security that she has to make the statements that she made. The morons that want to wax about political correctness and law violations are the same hairy wet cats that fail to do anything about it. Again i appkaud her for helping to blaze that trail however much those comments may help, she is doing the right thing.The people that want to bring up the legalities do our society harm. Chicos ur a loser
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Kieger’s assistants deleted from the MU website.
I think that’s pretty standard as the head coach assembles their own staff. It will be interesting to see who Duffy hires as assistants. I’m also interested in which MU assistants join Kieger at Penn State.
I like the hire. Duffy started out coaching in the Big East under Kim Barnes Arico at St. John’s. She has lots of coaching experience including the two years as a head coach.
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If our men’s coach would only leave for Duke and women’s coach would only leave for ND, then I think we are in pretty good shape from a coaching carousel perspective.
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Kieger’s assistants deleted from the MU website.
Duffy, Kieger, whatever. The big question is what happens to Scott Merritt!
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I've played hoops with Coach Duffy. When her shot went up we went back on defense, she was money. Great person, excellent basketball pedigree playing at ND and in the WNBA, and very knowledgable. Home run hire for MU. I hope she keeps Scott Merritt on staff.
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Duffy, Kieger, whatever. The big question is what happens to Scott Merritt!
I want Scott Merritt to become the Jerry Wainwright of women's college basketball.
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Can't we let people simply infer that? I mean, even if there's no picture, it is pretty apparent that the new coach is indeed a woman. After all, they use the pronoun "she" in the press release.
I don't think I am super sensitive about stuff like that, but that comment just smacks of "not bad for a girl!" or "We had several choices for head coach, buy we chose the one that's a lady!"
I agree with you completely, chickadee.
If they had promoted Merritt, would they have been trumpeting him as the first black person to have accomplished something?
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I hope she keeps Scott Merritt on staff.
He gowne, hey?
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Boy, I want to comment so bad...but I'm going to bite my tongue.It's just such a different world now days. it really saddens me.
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Did she eat Real Chili during the interviewing process?
It looks like MU was well-prepared and had a short list. Scholl reached into his ND roots for this one.
You'd think they would feed a coaching candidate something better than Alpo dog food.
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If you follow him on Twitter, you will know that President Lovell has placed a strong emphasis on women in leadership this year. I think the intent of the comment is that to show that Marquette looked at the pool of young, successful coaches, and the university was able to hire the woman in the 20-win rookie group into a leadership position. The statement highlights her qualifications (as one of just four candidates achieving 20 wins as a rookie), while also highlighting pride in putting that qualified female candidate in a leadership position.
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Boy, I want to comment so bad...but I'm going to bite my tongue.It's just such a different world now days. it really saddens me.
Bite hard. And thank you.
Signed,
Everyone
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Duffy played at Notre Dame right after ND won a national title with Niele Ivey as a player. McGraw’s success level at ND pre Ivey as a player, and pre Ivey as an assistant coach (12 years) is solid but much significantly less successful. Ivey would have been a dream hire for MU. But with the league the way it is and the budget the way it is, that is nothing short of a far fetched dream. Ivey can wait for a hand picked power 5 position or even more likely just keep staying at ND. Only 11 percent of women's college hoops head coaches are black, compared to 60% overall. A qualified black assistant from a Top 25 program, and/or coach with head coaching success would have been nice. Marquette just isn’t a diverse place in some ways. For example, 5 years ago there were 662 black D 1 women's college soccer players. Even more now. Marquette has had very few if any that i can recall in their program. Pretty head scratching to me. But I digress. I do hope the best for MU women’s hoops.
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I agree with you completely, chickadee.
If they had promoted Merritt, would they have been trumpeting him as the first black person to have accomplished something?
Maybe, but if he had similar credentials, would they have said "He was one of just four rookie head coaches in 2017-18 to collect at least 20 wins and the only African American to accomplish the feat"?
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Man, isn't it tax season or somethin', hey?
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Maybe, but if he had similar credentials, would they have said "He was one of just four rookie head coaches in 2017-18 to collect at least 20 wins and the only African American to accomplish the feat"?
I think not, but maybe.
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Boy, I want to comment so bad...but I'm going to bite my tongue.It's just such a different world now days. it really saddens me.
I know. I'm bummed by the dismantling of the AAF as well.
Now what are we supposed to do on Sundays?
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next order of duty, check the eight incoming recruits. Then some transfers from ND.
https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2018/11/27/18099228/marquette-golden-eagles-womens-basketball-2019-signings-recruits-williams-taylor-ayres-lougbo-king
Shemera Williams (SheBron) plays right down the street on 20th & State. Very gifted player.
4-year career high school averages: 32.9 ppg, 10.4 reb, 8.4 ast, 5.7 steals
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I've played hoops with Coach Duffy. When her shot went up we went back on defense, she was money. Great person, excellent basketball pedigree playing at ND and in the WNBA, and very knowledgable. Home run hire for MU. I hope she keeps Scott Merritt on staff.
Very cool, how did you get the opportunity to do that? MU AD connections? ND AD connections?
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I went to the Press Conference this afternoon and was pleased to see a large turnout. She said she had just met the returning players this afternoon and they were all in the front row. One of those returning players is one of the 8 incoming frosh signed by Kieger - she's from Australia and enrolled at MU in January and was sitting on the bench with the team since January.
I'm sure she will be very busy contacting the recruits now and then working on assembling her staff.
One thing that made me happy at the Press Conference was hearing that they're working installing a Video Board at the Al for Volleyball and Women's Basketball - I've been hoping they'd get one for awhile (this came up because they said that's why the press conference was at the union and not at the Al).
I like the hire - I think she has a great coaching resume and here's hoping she does great things at Marquette...
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next order of duty, check the eight incoming recruits. Then some transfers from ND.
It won't be any starters, all 5 ND starters were drafted into the WNBA draft, the first time that's ever happened.
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I went to the Press Conference this afternoon and was pleased to see a large turnout. She said she had just met the returning players this afternoon and they were all in the front row. One of those returning players is one of the 8 incoming frosh signed by Kieger - she's from Australia and enrolled at MU in January and was sitting on the bench with the team since January.
I'm sure she will be very busy contacting the recruits now and then working on assembling her staff.
One thing that made me happy at the Press Conference was hearing that they're working installing a Video Board at the Al for Volleyball and Women's Basketball - I've been hoping they'd get one for awhile (this came up because they said that's why the press conference was at the union and not at the Al).
I like the hire - I think she has a great coaching resume and here's hoping she does great things at Marquette...
Big news. That scoreboard had been horribly substandard. Chick and I have talked about that for 2 years. Glad it's happening.
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Big news. That scoreboard had been horribly substandard. Chick and I have talked about that for 2 years. Glad it's happening.
Oh, you 2 and your pillow talk.
Glad to hear there's still romance in your marriage!
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Oh, you 2 and your pillow talk.
Glad to hear there's still romance in your marriage!
Ha! At Al games '82.
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next order of duty, check the eight incoming recruits. Then some transfers from ND.
https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2018/11/27/18099228/marquette-golden-eagles-womens-basketball-2019-signings-recruits-williams-taylor-ayres-lougbo-king
Shemera Williams (SheBron) plays right down the street on 20th & State. Very gifted player.
4-year career high school averages: 32.9 ppg, 10.4 reb, 8.4 ast, 5.7 steals
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.
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Wonder if Scholl's ND connections helped with this hire.
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Wonder if Scholl's ND connections helped with this hire.
Helped? I'm sure Duffy jumped at the opportunity. That said, no doubt Scholl knew her quite well. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if Kieger gave her a recommendation. They're friends and Carolyn didn't leave on bad terms.
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Ha! At Al games '82.
There's a Jumbotron joke in here somewhere....
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Helped? I'm sure Duffy jumped at the opportunity. That said, no doubt Scholl knew her quite well. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if Kieger gave her a recommendation. They're friends and Carolyn didn't leave on bad terms.
I meant helped identify her as a potential replacement. Didn't know about the Kieger connection though.
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next order of duty, check the eight incoming recruits. Then some transfers from ND.
Why would she get transfers from ND? She didn't coach there as a head coach nor an assistant and hasn't played there since 2006.
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Big news. That scoreboard had been horribly substandard. Chick and I have talked about that for 2 years. Glad it's happening.
I was starting to wonder if they were ever going to get a video board and was happy to hear about this yesterday.
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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.
Q&A with Duffy from Ben Steele today and he specifically asks her about Shemera Williams - see last question:
https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/college/marquette/2019/04/11/q-a-new-marquette-womens-basketball-coach-megan-duffy/3425008002/
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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=wbball
Shemera 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.
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Scott Merritt lives!!!
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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=wbball
Shemera 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.
Confusing the men's and women's Kentucky basketball teams?
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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=wbball
Shemera 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.
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Glad Merritt is sticking around so it'll be an easy transition to Wojo's office next March.
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Great job keeping the assistants. Had heard Scott was PSU-bound and was assuming Vernette was too.
I did forget to add that Ginny Boggess and two other staff members did join Kieger at Penn State:
https://gopsusports.com/news/2019/4/16/womens-basketball-kieger-announces-first-staff-additions.aspx
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Video board installation photo on twitter.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D4TFR1oWAAgXelq.jpg)
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Video board installation photo on twitter.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D4TFR1oWAAgXelq.jpg)
That was cool to see the other day - very glad they are adding that to the Al.
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Another Marquette recruit who has apparently gotten a release from her LOI is Destiny Strother:
https://twitter.com/stormAAU/status/1118922332242890757
It 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.
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Coach Peters 2.0
I found this line in the press release to be a little condescending. I hope she signed off on it:
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Another Marquette recruit who has apparently gotten a release from her LOI is Destiny Strother:
https://twitter.com/stormAAU/status/1118922332242890757
It 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."
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NLI. There is no such think as a "LOI."
Sorry - my bad for using the incorrect terminology.
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Confirmation on twitter from Jordan King's Father that she will be coming to Marquette to play for Coach Duffy next season:
https://twitter.com/jking0930/status/1120708321630146560
She is one of the 8 players Kieger had commitments from for the 19-20 season. King went to the same high school as former Marquette player Courtney Weibel and was coached in HS by Weibel's Dad.
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Weibel's dad is from Oconomowoc. He played hoop, but was an All State pitcher. Pitched in the Twins organization until he got hurt.
He's called Randy, but in Oconomowoc he's always been known as Max.
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King is a stud. Pretty much single handedly lead Hononegah to a third place finish in state last year.
She did not have much around her.
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This was announced a few days ago but I just saw it tweeted about today - the first departure I know of from Kieger's original 8 recruits for 2019-20:
http://www.lsusports.net/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=5200&ATCLID=211802480
Sharna Ayres has transferred from MU to LSU. She had enrolled at MU in January and was sitting on the bench with the team the 2nd part of the season and was set to start playing in 2019-20.
Jordan King has reconfirmed she is coming to MU as already discussed here and Shemera Williams and Destiny Strother have said via twitter they were reopening their recruitment (their words - not mine and in Strother's case I think it was her AAU team that put that tweet out). And I have no idea what the status is of the other 4 recruits. Ayres is the only player to be removed from the roster on the MU site (incoming frosh aren't out there yet) so as far as I know there are no other returning players that have decided to leave.
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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/1130940226401177601
Virginia 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.
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More importantly the article tells us that future Wojo replacement, Scott Merritt, was retained on MUWBB's assistant coaching staff.
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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/1130940226401177601
Virginia 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.
Don’t let Guru know that new coaches often lose chunks of the recruiting class
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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/1130940226401177601
Virginia 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.
Apparently, she wants to join the Hausers in Charlottesville.
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More importantly the article tells us that future Wojo replacement, Scott Merritt, was retained on MUWBB's assistant coaching staff.
That was announced awhile ago. Duffy actually had her 3 assistants in place before Kieger did at PSU.
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https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/2019/05/22/marquettes-duffy-talks-retaining-six-recruits/3767879002/
6 of 8 ain't bad.
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Don’t let Guru know that new coaches often lose chunks of the recruiting class
Oh...you mean like I have stated numerous times, that you CAN keep classes together, or most of it?? Everyone always assumes an automatic rebuild when a new Coach comes in..That is so patently false I don't even know where to begin...Exhibit A...Megan Duffy kept 6 of the 8 recruits that were committed...Hmmm, what say you Chicos?? You can admit I'm right, and that you said "lose chunks" of their recruiting classes?? 2 of 8 is "chunks"??
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https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/2019/05/22/marquettes-duffy-talks-retaining-six-recruits/3767879002/
6 of 8 ain't bad.
I was very relieved to get confirmation today that 6 of the original 8 recruits are indeed coming to MU. It was interesting to read also that Duffy is still looking to add to the roster by the end of the summer.
The article says Duffy has 2 open scholarship slots. But I think there are at least 3 open slots and possibly 4. Juco transfer Amanda Maquiea was featured in a picture of Women's Basketball players in caps and gowns at a student athlete reception this weekend and she's no longer listed on the roster on MU's site which has been updated to include the incoming frosh. Lauren VanKleunen also apparently graduated in 3 years but appears to be returning to MU (she has 2 years of eligibility left after redshirting her freshman year). I wonder about Tori McCoy and if her scholarship counts towards the 15 limit with her medical issues.
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https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/2019/05/22/marquettes-duffy-talks-retaining-six-recruits/3767879002/
6 of 8 ain't bad.
Yes but the best young lady is going to Virginia....it depends on which two choose not come back.
The girl from Milwaukee is not coming. Big loss.
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Oh...you mean like I have stated numerous times, that you CAN keep classes together, or most of it?? Everyone always assumes an automatic rebuild when a new Coach comes in..That is so patently false I don't even know where to begin...Exhibit A...Megan Duffy kept 6 of the 8 recruits that were committed...Hmmm, what say you Chicos?? You can admit I'm right, and that you said "lose chunks" of their recruiting classes?? 2 of 8 is "chunks"??
That's a quarter of a class. Idk about you but if I had a pie and someone ate a quarter of my pie I'd say I lost a chunk of my pie.
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Butt, ya neva had da pie ta begin wit. Now, let's say ya lost 2 playas of your 13 member teem. Dat's a ball busta, hey?
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Butt, ya neva had da pie ta begin wit. Now, let's say ya lost 2 playas of your 13 member teem. Dat's a ball busta, hey?
Considering there are over 800 transfers this year, lots of balls are being busted
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Are there rankings on any of these six that decided to stick around? I see that Shemira was #55 on ESPN but no one else ranked. Any other services have any of our incoming players as top 150 or 200? Just curious of the quality of the group.
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That's a quarter of a class. Idk about you but if I had a pie and someone ate a quarter of my pie I'd say I lost a chunk of my pie.
that's one way to look at it. The other is you saved 3/4 of the pie.
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Oh...you mean like I have stated numerous times, that you CAN keep classes together, or most of it?? Everyone always assumes an automatic rebuild when a new Coach comes in..That is so patently false I don't even know where to begin...Exhibit A...Megan Duffy kept 6 of the 8 recruits that were committed...Hmmm, what say you Chicos?? You can admit I'm right, and that you said "lose chunks" of their recruiting classes?? 2 of 8 is "chunks"??
Most important player gone....not only the most important player, the ONLY player that was ranked highly. Same thing happened to MU when Buzz came on board, the key players were gone and we also lost an existing player. Sure, anything is possible. Classes can stay together, or they leave. Whenever you have a coaching change, you are opening yourself up to those changes further from a domino effect.
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Most important player gone....not only the most important player, the ONLY player that was ranked highly. Same thing happened to MU when Buzz came on board, the key players were gone and we also lost an existing player. Sure, anything is possible. Classes can stay together, or they leave. Whenever you have a coaching change, you are opening yourself up to those changes further from a domino effect.
If any of them stick longer than 2 years and are significant contributors, that's a win. My expectation with any new coach is that they'll likely tear it down and start from scratch. It wouldn't surprise me if the entire roster turned over by Fall 2021.
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If any of them stick longer than 2 years and are significant contributors, that's a win. My expectation with any new coach is that they'll likely tear it down and start from scratch. It wouldn't surprise me if the entire roster turned over by Fall 2021.
Jordan King is pretty legit. Think her dad went to Marquette or someone in her family so she’ll be there for the long haul.
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Talk about not keeping the hometown kids locked up, Shemera Williams went to high school on 20th between Kilbourn and State.
Tough to lose a player that led the country in scoring.
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The days of locking up talent in state has been over for a long time. Kids want to get out and explore, try new things, and a quick cheap flight home is easy.
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Talk about not keeping the hometown kids locked up, Shemera Williams went to high school on 20th between Kilbourn and State.
Tough to lose a player that led the country in scoring.
Had they kept Kieger locked up, they would've kept Williams locked up. When you lose your coach, it's hard to keep the prize of the recruiting class. The men's team didn't do it when Tyshawn Taylor left after Crean's departure nor when Ahmed Hill followed Buzz to Va Tech. Honestly I'm surprised Duffy kept as much of Kieger's class as she did.