When asked what drew him to join his former Kansas teammate and longtime friend Mark Turgeon at Maryland, Danny Manning recalled advice from his dad.
“My father was a college coach,” Manning said Monday on a virtual conference call, “and he always told me, he said you want to work with people that you enjoy being around, that you trust, that are friends. Because it is a job with unreal hours and there’s a lot of times that you’re going to spend more time with your work staff than your actual family.”
Given the tip from his late father, Ed, a former assistant at Kansas while Manning starred on Jayhawks teams in the 1980s, it was a “no-brainer,” as Manning called it, to reunite with a man with whom he experienced some of his greatest moments on a basketball court.