50 Most Influential People In Sports

[RuffRuff]

powerlist-v3

projects.si.com

Hurley featured

 

[aburks41]

How is it possible to write 3 sentences about the guy and still get a fact completely wrong lol. Kevin Sweeney says that Hurley stayed at UConn for less than half of the $70M contract offer from the Lakers. He must have missed the news that Hurley got a $50M extension. That $30M extension that he is referencing is a year old and no longer accurate...

edit: they fixed it

 

[CL82]

 

[huskymedic]

 

[StllH8L8ner]

How can recruits see this and not sign on the dotted line immediately? (I know…money)

 

[superjohn]

Always nice to see Hurley and UConn getting shine.

The full scale women's basketball push in every aspect of media is wild.

 

[NJHoops]

Pretty impressive for a glorified gym teacher!

 

[alphasigko]

Flaue'Jae Johnson? Who?

Really in the same List as LeBron, Tiger and Coach Dan?

 

[CTBasketball]

Always nice to see Hurley and UConn getting shine.

The full scale women's basketball push in every aspect of media is wild.

Flaue'Jae Johnson? Who?

Really in the same List as LeBron, Tiger and Coach Dan?

Yea this is the oddest list of all time. Just a weird project SI pushed out.

99.9999% of people have no idea who 50% of these listed sports-related celebrities are.

 

[Scoe]

Roger Goodell influential get outta here. Speaking of influential ummm Jim Calhoun?

 

[Kitaman]

How can recruits see this and not sign on the dotted line immediately? (I know…money)

Playing time is also very important to recruits. UConn makes you work hard for it (especially freshman), not all big time program schools do.

 

[Edward Sargent]

After Ohtani's game last night you think they might want to edit the article a bit!!

 

[HooperScooper]

Roger Goodell influential get outta here. Speaking of influential ummm Jim Calhoun?

If Goodell is on the list then just put all the NFL owners on there. Goodell just does whatever the owners tell him to do and he takes the heat off of them. He's a puppet.

 

[DRBackup]

Always nice to see Hurley and UConn getting shine.

The full scale women's basketball push in every aspect of media is wild.

It is especially odd to see it unfold as fans of the top women's program in basketball history. UConn has put stars in the WNBA from day one, right up to today. And yet the league made no attempt to capitalize on any of them like this.

 

[willie99]

Love the respect given Dan, love the exposure for our program, and I concur with many of the "nominees"

Butttt my overall summation, what an awful list. Seriously?

Women's basketball the most recognized sport, and no Geno? Two strikes right there

No Shohei Ohtani?

Might as well start talking about corn hole, pickle ball and bowling

 

[temery]

At first I thought Hurley doesn't belong on such a list after only two good years. Then I read the list, and think Hurley doesn't belong on the list because it's a really dumb list.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

Always nice to see Hurley and UConn getting shine.

The full scale women's basketball push in every aspect of media is wild.

………and at the same time, no Geno is an abomination, not to mention no Calhoun, and not one UConn women’s basketball player past or present. No Lobo, Maya, Diana, …..instead Juju Watkins? wtf

 

[Jaydumo20]

At first I thought Hurley doesn't belong on such a list after two good years. Then I read the list, and think Hurley doesn't belong on the list because it's a really dumb list.

On the other hand... has any sports fan, music fan, movie fan, fan of anything, not completely trashed every "best of" list?

"Bro, how could you leave off Pearl Jam's 10??"

 

[JerseyAlum]

At the 26th Annual Hudson County Sports HoF (NJ) he was inducted as was his brother and father's foundation.

The funny thing, is, and while I grew up in CT and was a scholar athlete at UConn back in the day, I have been NJ for the last 25 years and so many players/coaches from Hudson County (Jersey City, Hoboken, Union City, Bayonne, West NY, Seacaucus, Weehawken, etc.) had so many athletes at the high school level that went on to college, and a decent amount to the pros.

Kenny Britt, NFL wide out mainly with the Tennessee Titans, came out of Bayonne -> Rutgers was there, as were so many of Hurley's contemporaries and home town friends. The consensus of speakers comments in their inductions about Coach Dan Hurley can be summed up as "... and freakin' Danny Hurley with the repeat Nattys?" as if he was the least of them and somehow showed out so much.

It was a fun night of all these former high school rivals who went on to bigger stages, remembering where they came from.

Inductees – Hudson County Sports Hall of Fame

hudsoncountysportshalloffame.org

2024 Inductees​

Kenny Britt
Arthur Rubin
Zac Naszimento
Wilber Valdez
Joseph Liberti
Tara DeFilippo
Kenneth Such
John Belluardo, Jr.
Michael A. Brown
Jerome Hayes
Edward Hochstadter, Jr.
Aracely Cruz
Rashawn Jackson
Joe Botti
Danny Hurley
Bobby Hurley
Johnny Callaway
Elnardo Webster Award Recipient - The Hurley Family Foundation

 

[CardiacAndre7]

At the 26th Annual Hudson County Sports HoF (NJ) he was inducted as was his brother and father's foundation.

The funny thing, is, and while I grew up in CT and was a scholar athlete at UConn back in the day, I have been NJ for the last 25 years and so many players/coaches from Hudson County (Jersey City, Hoboken, Union City, Bayonne, West NY, Seacaucus, Weehawken, etc.) had so many athletes at the high school level that went on to college, and a decent amount to the pros.

Kenny Britt, NFL wide out mainly with the Tennessee Titans, came out of Bayonne -> Rutgers was there, as were so many of Hurley's contemporaries and home town friends. The consensus of speakers comments in their inductions about Coach Dan Hurley can be summed up as "... and freakin' Danny Hurley with the repeat Nattys?" as if he was the least of them and somehow showed out so much.

It was a fun night of all these former high school rivals who went on to bigger stages, remembering where they came from.

Inductees – Hudson County Sports Hall of Fame

hudsoncountysportshalloffame.org

2024 Inductees​

Kenny Britt
Arthur Rubin
Zac Naszimento
Wilber Valdez
Joseph Liberti
Tara DeFilippo
Kenneth Such
John Belluardo, Jr.
Michael A. Brown
Jerome Hayes
Edward Hochstadter, Jr.
Aracely Cruz
Rashawn Jackson
Joe Botti
Danny Hurley
Bobby Hurley
Johnny Callaway
Elnardo Webster Award Recipient - The Hurley Family Foundation

Kenny Britt, forgot about that guy.

 

[JerseyAlum]

Kenny Britt, forgot about that guy.

Humorously walked to the stage to accept and kept muttering humorously... "me first...really?...first?"

I got him back at the bar when I was in front of him..."not first here Kenny" and we talked and chuckled over athletics and such for a few.