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Message: [QUOTE="Justin M, post: 2651175, member: 4741"] What I like about Hurley is that he immediately drinks the Kool-Aid. Talking over and over about the UCONN brand, and what that means to walk into a gym with that polo on that says UConn. He talks about the legacy and how UConn has been percieved and what it means to high school kids and even coaches when someone from the school comes to visit. Hurley is buying in to what UConn is all about, because he knows it's whats best and that to be a great coach and build/maintain a strong program you must have an identity. Jim Calhoun built the foundation here for what is means to be from UConn or go to UConn. KO wanted to remake that brand and break down and build up the brand of a program who quite frankly didnt need rebranding. I'm happy that Hurley is here, not because he is going to be Jim Calhoun, and coach and teach like Calhoun does. But because he respects what UConn was before his time, and will look to build off that rather than break it down and create something new. [/QUOTE]