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Dan Hurley “Seriously” Considered Stepping Down From UConn Last Year

temery said:
And Hurley isn't at the level of Calhoun, K, Knight, Self, or Williams until he wins at least one more without a starter from '23 or '24. If he moves on before then, he'll still be a HOF coach, but far from a legendary coach like those mentioned above.
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You will find another way to move the goalposts. I think that is clear by now
 
Waquoit said:
Not far at all, steps behind maybe. Billy Donovan is at the level of the view you cite. And JC never had UConn men this high in the national consciousness ever. You aren't giving Dan Hurley his due.
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What was Hurley's record outside the two championship years? 2nd round twice. He has a lot of work to do to catch up to Donovan.
 
Dan is an intense person-No news there. He is passionate about his family-craft-players/coaches/Program. Burns the candle at both ends. It seems to me he's sincerely and constantly working on new outlets/interests to rejuvenate-revitalize-relax so that he has longevity in his pursuits. His brutal honesty and self-awareness about his mental health challenges over the years is inspiring to many. Admire him for shining a light on those challenges for others to learn from.

More to Life than Xs and Os.
 
Very weird timing for a diddy like this to let loose, hard to think it's not book related. This was otherwise best kept private as it's certainly not doing the program much good.
 
Inyatkin said:
You will find another way to move the goalposts. I think that is clear by now
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Perhaps, but with this argument I don't need to move anything. Hurley = b2b titles, and three 2nd round trips. Four if you count the NIT.

If he moved on now, in 20 years only UConn fans will have any idea who he was. Some will know he was Bob Hurley's son, but that would be able it.
 
temery said:
Perhaps, but with this argument I don't need to move anything. Hurley = b2b titles, and three 2nd round trips. Four if you count the NIT.

If he moved on now, in 20 years only UConn fans will have any idea who he was. Some will know he was Bob Hurley's son, but that would be able it.
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Most people today don't know who Dean Smith is. Congrats on discovering the passage of time.

Your thing is that two national titles isn't so great. That's an unreal hill to die on, but keep at it. I'm sure people will come around.
 
temery said:
What was Hurley's record outside the two championship years? 2nd round twice. He has a lot of work to do to catch up to Donovan.
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He took a program in the dumps and got them to the big dance in three years. Won the whole thing in five. Won it again after losing 3 guys to the pros. That's extraordinary and here you are throwing shade. He's way ahead of JC's pace. JC never went to 5 tournaments in a row until his 20th season, he always need to reload after 3. Dan did it in 7, no reloading necessary. JC never made 6 in a row.
 
temery said:
Perhaps, but with this argument I don't need to move anything. Hurley = b2b titles, and three 2nd round trips. Four if you count the NIT.

If he moved on now, in 20 years only UConn fans will have any idea who he was. Some will know he was Bob Hurley's son, but that would be able it.
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Not sure I agree with this one. One thing Hurley is that many of these previous coaches were not is a media machine - we've gotten to know him really well in a very concentrated time frame, exactly how this & future generations absorb content. He's become larger than life. It's like a rock star that drives his motorcycle off a cliff at their peak, stamps themselves as a legend.

The guy also fixed a program that was on life support.
 
Waquoit said:
He took a program in the dumps and got them to the big dance in three years. Won the whole thing in five. Won it again after losing 3 guys to the pros. That's extraordinary and here you are throwing shade. He's way ahead of JC's pace. JC never went to 5 tournaments in a row until his 20th season, he always need to reload after 3. Dan did it in 7, no reloading necessary. JC never made 6 in a row.
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To JC's defense, he didn't have the portal.
 
Waquoit said:
Not far at all, steps behind maybe. Billy Donovan is at the level of the view you cite. And JC never had UConn men this high in the national consciousness ever. You aren't giving Dan Hurley his due.
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Calhoun is my favorite coach ever and he built this thing basically from scratch but your point is 100% true and it's not said enough here. UConn was in the mix but they weren't viewed as the premier program in college basketball under Calhoun and Calhoun wasn't viewed nationally as the top coach in college basketball. UConn is viewed as the premier program under Hurley and Hurley is viewed as the top coach in college basketball.

It's bizarre how some of our own fans take swipes at him and try and minimize his remarkable accomplishments.

There is no luck involved in curb stomping the field 2 years in a row by something like a 22 point average margin of victory. That was the most dominant team in the 64 team tournament era and the 4th most dominant team in the 64 team tournament era. He didn't do it with the same players...Sanogo, Hawkins, Jackson, Joey C, and Alleyne all left. That's 3 starters gone and 5 of our top 8 performers gone.
 
RuffRuff said:
Not sure I agree with this one. One thing Hurley is that many of these previous coaches were not is a media machine - we've gotten to know him really well in a very concentrated time frame, exactly how this & future generations absorb content. He's become larger than life. It's like a rock star that drives his motorcycle off a cliff at their peak, stamps themselves as a legend.

The guy also fixed a program that was on life support.
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Apples and oranges. The legends I mentioned won before the internet was the primary source of information for bb fans.
 
Waquoit said:
Not far at all, steps behind maybe. Billy Donovan is at the level of the view you cite. And JC never had UConn men this high in the national consciousness ever. You aren't giving Dan Hurley his due.
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Billy went to two other Final Fours outside of that back to back run btw
CL82 said:
Maybe, but Kimani is the associate head coach. It's tough to see a scenario where an assistant leapfrogs the associate head coach and the associate head coach continues in the same role. Kimani is a big part of the reason we have the last two national championships, particularly his recruiting. Don't get me wrong, Luke is a talented guy, but I'm not sure he's ready to jump from being an assistant to a head coach of a high major program.
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yeah I'm not sure why this board is quick to prop up the assistant coach over the associate head coach as next up.
 
superjohn said:
Calhoun is my favorite coach ever and he built this thing basically from scratch but your point is 100% true and it's not said enough here. UConn was in the mix but they weren't viewed as the premier program in college basketball under Calhoun and Calhoun wasn't viewed nationally as the top coach in college basketball. UConn is viewed as the premier program under Hurley and Hurley is viewed as the top coach in college basketball.

It's bizarre how some of our own fans take swipes at him and try and minimize his remarkable accomplishments.

There is no luck involved in curb stomping the field 2 years in a row by something like a 22 point average margin of victory. That was the most dominant team in the 64 team tournament era and the 4th most dominant team in the 64 team tournament era. He didn't do it with the same players...Sanogo, Hawkins, Jackson, Joey C, and Alleyne all left. That's 3 starters gone and 5 of our top 8 performers gone.
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What's Hurley's record without Clingan?
 
superjohn said:
Calhoun is my favorite coach ever and he built this thing basically from scratch but your point is 100% true and it's not said enough here. UConn was in the mix but they weren't viewed as the premier program in college basketball under Calhoun and Calhoun wasn't viewed nationally as the top coach in college basketball. UConn is viewed as the premier program under Hurley and Hurley is viewed as the top coach in college basketball.

It's bizarre how some of our own fans take swipes at him and try and minimize his remarkable accomplishments.

There is no luck involved in curb stomping the field 2 years in a row by something like a 22 point average margin of victory. That was the most dominant team in the 64 team tournament era and the 4th most dominant team in the 64 team tournament era. He didn't do it with the same players...Sanogo, Hawkins, Jackson, Joey C, and Alleyne all left. That's 3 starters gone and 5 of our top 8 performers gone.
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We wouldn't be viewed as the premier program now without the foundation Calhoun set. Hurley is standing on his shoulders. Florida wasn't looked at as a premier program even after their back to back.

Calhoun was also competing with Coach K, Roy Williams, etc. coaches who won multiple titles for best coach in college basketball.

Hurley is competing with… the Squid? The competition for best coach in basketball is no where near as rigid as what Calhoun went through.
 
NJHoops said:
what makes it even better is that a lot of the hilariousness is so unintentional
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What's even funnier is to see your spin job in regards to everything Hurley does to make it seem okay.

Its okay if you want to have your head that deep in his butt. But I personally don't want to smell his poop.

(please stop talking about me directly or indirectly because I'm not funny. I'm just mean)
 
CL82 said:
Is Hurley versus Clingan the new Belichick versus Brady debate?
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if you read the threads here about Belichick, you'll see there aren't too many people giving him credit for the six Super Bowl wins. They are saying no wins without Brady.
 
HW611 said:
We wouldn't be viewed as the premier program now without the foundation Calhoun set. Hurley is standing on his shoulders.
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Duh, which is why I said Calhoun basically built it from scratch and had us in the mix as one of the top programs.

The program was a dumpster fire when Hurley took over going 30-35 overall and having a losing record in a horrible AAC over the previous two seasons. Not to mention recruiting restrictions and a scholarship reduction he had to work with because of the previous coach. Despite this, Hurley was tasked with building the program back to what it once was under Calhoun which seemed like a monumental task anyone would most likely fall short of. Instead he built the program to heights it's never seen before.
 
temery said:
Apples and oranges. The legends I mentioned won before the internet was the primary source of information for bb fans.
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Doesn't deny the fact that how news is consumed/evolves drives how one is remembered, if the goal is to be remembered. Danny has YouTube bites everywhere.

One thing Hurley does well, whether intentional or not, is draw attention. I just can't tell if he likes it or not. Here we thought Dan Hurley would creep into this season quietly like a stealth bomber, learning from last summer's media gluttony and this drops in the first week of September. Same month last year we were hearing chants of disrespect, threepeat and that half the roster being first round talent. Lol.

Maybe he actually enjoys the attention.
 

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