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Mark Turgeon on why he took KC job out of retirement, pressures of coaching, Allen Iverson and Tom Izzo stories
After 476 wins and taking three different teams to the NCAA Tournament, Turgeon stepped away from the pressures of Big Ten coaching at ever-demanding Maryland in 2021 at the age of 56.
With plenty of money in the bank and nothing left to prove, Turgeon mostly smelled the roses for the last five years in what most would classify as retirement.
But he was ready for one more adventure. Or, in more pessimistic terms, renewed torture of coaching in the NIL/portal era, this time at a forgotten place buried in a major sports and college basketball market.
Why on Earth did he choose Kansas City…
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