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

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NJHoops said:
It is fine. They’re not matching the highest spending teams, who have incredible conference financial advantages, though. So yeah, it’s fine, but the writing is on the wall. And, I say this as some who loves the Big East, or at least the idea of it.
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Hurley has other things to sell that make up for short term payday, and it’s not as though he can’t get close. What motivates a player is an important variable in team sports and if it’s money alone, it rarely works.

BYU will be a good test case for how the one and done bag chaser experiment works this year with AJD. Kansas and DP will be worth watching as well. Flagg was an anomaly as a team first stud, hasn’t worked a ton outside of that Duke team. Tre J, VJ Edgecombe, Rutgers didn’t do squat.
 
RitzLuce1 said:
I’m still trying to figure out what two 5 star guards Hurley inherited when he got here. Maybe some had Adams and Gilbert at some point but most had them as 4 star. Even if Gilbert was 5 at some point I’m pretty sure his shoulder had exploded 3 times by the time Hurley arrived.

You’d probably have to go back to the Perno days to find a team as bad as the 2017 and 2018 teams.
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True. Meanwhile ,Calhoun inherited two NBA players one a first round draft pick and the other played over 10 years and was an All-Star..
 
temery said:
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.
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Jimmy G looked pretty good with the Pats. No question they'd still win with him.
 
uconnfan68 said:
Jimmy G looked pretty good with the Pats. No question they'd still win with him.
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They won with Drew. They won with Matt Cassel. They won with Jimmy G and Brissett. Bill's downfall was entirely as a GM not as a coach. He wasn't really adapting to changes in college football that impacted evaluations of NFL talent, especially on offense. When almost every team is in shotgun and running a spread, it's harder to project who will work well in a Erhardt-Perkins style offense.
 
uconnfan68 said:
Jimmy G looked pretty good with the Pats. No question they'd still win with him.
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3 games? League figured out JG pretty quick. Cassel was on a roster that went undefeated the year prior.

I’m firmly in the camp that Beli is an above average coach that landed on a gold mine. Other world genius he is not.
 
Waquoit said:
True. Meanwhile ,Calhoun inherited two NBA players one a first round draft pick and the other played over 10 years and was an All-Star..
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100% forgot Tate played in the NBA, let alone was a first round pick...
 
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temery said:
I know, I went to every home game. Their "star" QB was out for most of the season. And the "no name defense" had one HOF player, Nick Buoniconti. I got to know him a bit when we moved to Springfield. I coached his son, and he was there for every practice and game, even if his son wasn't playing. Really nice guy.
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Csonka and Mercury both ran for 1,000 yards and they played 14 games then. The 3 headed backfield along with Jim Kick was kind of a big deal. I remember them on the cover of SI. Warfield was a star but didn't have a banner year with Morrall. Teams threw the ball so much less then anyway. Langer and Little were all-timers. I mean it depends on your definition of what a star is. Yeah, they had no Brady or Manning or Mahomes, but they had great all-star level players. They just weren't glamorous or household names outside of football. Csonka was kind of well known I guess.
 
temery said:
Awesome. Who is Jimmy G?
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This handsome devil
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RuffRuff said:
3 games? League figured out JG pretty quick. Cassel was on a roster that went undefeated the year prior.

I’m firmly in the camp that Beli is an above average coach that landed on a gold mine. Other world genius he is not.
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Brady had a chance to show his skills in Michigan and he did anything but. It's Brady who struck gold by being drafted by BB and the Patriots.
 
Locked on is pushing this at about the believability to wider audiences as they post who is signing whom. FWIW I liked Zanetto better than this current dude.

It's kind of odd to see this pushed in the same week I see the Hurleys enjoying some away time relaxing either on a cruise or an island/beach on IG.

True or not, it's just one of any number of Hurley remarks or outcries and does little to help our '26 recruiting but might make for an interesting book - that is already ordered.
 
temery said:
Brady had a chance to show his skills in Michigan and he did anything but. It's Brady who struck gold by being drafted by BB and the Patriots.
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Belichick was 5-13 as the Patriots head coach before Brady took over as starter after Bledsoe's injury
 
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temery said:
Brady had a chance to show his skills in Michigan and he did anything but. It's Brady who struck gold by being drafted by BB and the Patriots.
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Hmm. Tom went 20-5 and won two bowl games at Michigan. He went for 370 yards and 4 TDs against Bama in the Orange bowl win his senior year.

A bit of chicken or egg on this one I suppose, but over the test of time, it's pretty darned clear who the jewel of these two is. When one left, one went pumpkin at midnight for 5 years while the other won a SB in year 1, went to the playoffs all 3 years. This one really isn't even hard to unpack. They both benefitted from each other, but over the haul, pretty easy to see BB did a lot more of the benefitting.

Bill went 29-38 in the 4 years after TB, made the playoffs once and lost that game 47-17 in a laughing stock of a performance.
 
HuskyHawk said:
They won with Drew. They won with Matt Cassel. They won with Jimmy G and Brissett. Bill's downfall was entirely as a GM not as a coach. He wasn't really adapting to changes in college football that impacted evaluations of NFL talent, especially on offense. When almost every team is in shotgun and running a spread, it's harder to project who will work well in a Erhardt-Perkins style offense.
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Belichick won with those guys? I must have missed the last 30 years.

Oh, you’re comparing winning some games vs winning 6 super bowls.

Bill didn’t win anything important without Tom Brady.
 
aceboon said:
Belichick was 5-13 as the Patriots head coach before Brady took over as starter after Bledsoe's injury
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And Brady was the 199th draft pick.

Brady = peanut butter. Belichick = chocolate. Neither was anything until they bumped into the other.
 
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RuffRuff said:
Hmm. Tom went 20-5 and won two bowl games at Michigan. He went for 370 yards and 4 TDs against Bama in the Orange bowl win his senior year.

A bit of chicken or egg on this one I suppose, but over the test of time, it's pretty darned clear who the jewel of these two is. When one left, one went pumpkin at midnight for 5 years while the other won a SB in year 1, went to the playoffs all 3 years. This one really isn't even hard to unpack. They both benefitted from each other, but over the haul, pretty easy to see BB did a lot more of the benefitting.

Bill went 29-38 in the 4 years after TB, made the playoffs once and lost that game 47-17 in a laughing stock of a performance.
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UConn has won four bowl games since the 'yard has been around. Can you name any NFL stars from these teams?

Brady wasn't drafted until the last round for a reason.
 
temery said:
UConn has won four bowl games since the 'yard has been around. Can you name any NFL stars from these teams?

Brady wasn't drafted until the last round for a reason.
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Because back then the NFL over indexed on how QB's looked in their underwear. They didn't do a great job of indexing on brain, desire, leadership which he is 100/100 on. And ahem, he's also 6'4" with a great arm. He also got a fairly raw deal at UM stuck behind a homestate hero, who went on to do nothing professionally. This stuff has all been well documented.

Tom was the pizza, Bill was the parmesan cheese (optional). End of day, Bill is a great DC who lucked into the undisputed GOAT. I mean look at every single coach coming out of the Beli tree - they all suck. Our guy Charlie Weis, who turned ND into Helen Keller U, was even made to look good by Tom. The more you unpack, the more obvious it becomes.
 
RuffRuff said:
Because back then the NFL over indexed on how QB's looked in their underwear. They didn't do a great job of indexing on brain, desire, leadership which he is 100/100 on. And ahem, he's also 6'4" with a great arm. He also got a fairly raw deal at UM stuck behind a homestate hero, who went on to do nothing professionally. This stuff has all been well documented.

Tom was the pizza, Bill was the parmesan cheese (optional). End of day, Bill is a great DC who lucked into the undisputed GOAT. I mean look at every single coach coming out of the Beli tree - they all suck. Our guy Charlie Weis, who turned ND into Helen Keller U, was even made to look good by Tom. The more you unpack, the more obvious it becomes.
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Brady hadn't proved himself to any NFL coach until the last round of the draft. BB tossed a coin and got lucky. Brady was even more lucky. Even Bridget Moynihan knew enough to cut him loose.
 
HooperScooper said:
I think he's just trolling us to keep traffic up in a rather dead period on the college basketball calendar.
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Very possible. I think he was only about 20% serious about leaving. The other 80% is for book sales. Hurley is a master marketer.
 
temery said:
Brady hadn't proved himself to any NFL coach until the last round of the draft. BB tossed a coin and got lucky. Brady was even more lucky. Even Bridget Moynihan knew enough to cut him loose.
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And Gisele too.
 
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temery said:
Brady hadn't proved himself to any NFL coach until the last round of the draft. BB tossed a coin and got lucky. Brady was even more lucky. Even Bridget Moynihan knew enough to cut him loose.
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Clearly Beli has won the competition for true love. I tip my hat.
 
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A head case never stops being a head case. He’s our head case, and we have him to thank and revere for solidifying us as a blue blood with one of the most dominant two-year runs the sport has ever seen. But it is what it is.
 
temery said:
There is at least a little luck in every title win. The best way to prove yourself as a coach is to win multiple titles with different players. There's only a small handful of coaches who have been able to do so. If Hurley sticks around, I can see him being added to that list.
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This is more measured than your prior post in this thread, and easier for me to agree with.
 
Damn this place is insufferable. Our head coach has the credibility and visibility to be able to write a book about leadership. We are the luckiest fanbase in the nation. Any other take is stupid and a waste of time
 
temery said:
Brady hadn't proved himself to any NFL coach until the last round of the draft. BB tossed a coin and got lucky. Brady was even more lucky. Even Bridget Moynihan knew enough to cut him loose.
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I've said before, if the Jets draft Brady he may have been cut. He was 4th string in New England and Bill kept him. Most teams would have cut him. Maybe he latches on somewhere and languishes as a backup for 6-7 years before finally getting a shot. Maybe he does something with that shot. He very easily could have had a career more like Kurt Warner's if not for Bill seeing something and surrounding the kid with great defenses.
 
05Alum said:
Damn this place is insufferable. Our head coach has the credibility and visibility to be able to write a book about leadership. We are the luckiest fanbase in the nation. Any other take is stupid and a waste of time
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What does this have to do with the Brady/Bellichick debate?

Please remain on topic.
 
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