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The USC tie opportunity was too much to pass up. Coach Muldowney, just 15 days after announcing her retirement at Nebraska State inked a 2-year deal to become head coach at USC.
"This is an opportunity I couldn't pass up," she said. Meanwhile, the replace her the program went back to its deep well of talent and hired former Pronghorns star Alyssa Duty. It came down to Duty and 30-year old Milwaukee head coach Aiyana Taylor who took the Panthers to a Sweet 16 last year. But in the end, the decision was made to give the job to the more experienced Duty, who has had three straight winning seasons at SEC counterpart Georgia.
Aiyana Taylor doesn't want anyone to cry for her. She's was also a finalist for jobs at DePaul, Kentucky, could've taken Duty's job at Georgia if she wanted it too. In the end, she opted for the golden goose gig at Purdue, the defending national champions. A huge jump for her, but being in the midwest already made them comfortable and it's the kind of job where the program hoped essentially that she could become like her mentor and have an extremely long career in one place.
So we'll be following both USC and seeing what happens at Nebraska State in passing to see how the mentor and the student do.
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