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Dan Hurley reveals he aspires to be a head coach in the NBA for the right team

temery said:
Retired several years ago.

I read a bio of pop Hurley recently, and he is even more impressive than I had previously thought.

He was a full time probation officer, and a part time bb coach. His bb salary was $8,500/yr. I have no idea if he had checks coming in from shoe companies, etc. But I have no doubt he could have jumped to nearly any college at one point or another and easily made seven figures.

His ambition was focused on his players and his teams, not money and fame.

I really hope Danny inherited those genes.
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He also made a lot of money from running coaching clinics. He turned that money over to Saint Anthony's to allow that school to continue. Miracle of Saint Anthony's tells the story of Hurley and one of his undefeated seasons at the Jersey City school. It's a good read.
 
On the day we announce the Geno extension this comes out. Business is business…..leverage. At least for the next five years I think he stays at UConn as long as we can maintain our status as a top five program with a chance to challenge for a chip every year. I think he is concerned as we all have been on can we keep up with the P4 football conferences.

Of course life is fluid and things impacting his life may change. If we three peat it will be interesting since that puts him in legendary status and he could feel he has accomplished everything he can at this level.

But if he signs an extension that he likes and it runs it’s course after that he will be late mid fifties and he may decide to try something new. Just IMO.
 
EBonz30 said:
To be honest I don’t believe Billy has had a lot of success either…..took over a team that already made the finals & couldn’t get them over the hump & has been now coaching a Bulls team that has been mediocre to bad his entire tenure.

I would imagine certain nights Billy wakes up from a dream & thinks about how many NCAA championships he could’ve possibly won if he just stayed in college.
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I agree, Billy Donavan is exhibit A of why not to leave the college game for the NBA, and Brad Stevens liked coaching in the NBA so much that he doesn't do it anymore.

Look at the great Greg Popovich who has spent how many years in a row tanking for draft picks? Seems like misery to me.

If you enjoy winning, building your legacy and your family life stay with the college game, if you want to be a bachelor like Thibs go to the NBA.
 
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His “leverage” is winning back to back championships, retaining and developing players, and being one of the best current coaches in the game. If he was interested in negotiating through public comments, he would have played the Kentucky thing way differently.
 
I don't know. If that's what it takes for him to complete his journey and reach his goals? Go for it and I'll root to the dying end for him to succeed. He's already given me far more than I could have ever expected and I'm not greedy.
 
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Billy Donovan won back to back championships and then stayed at Florida another 8 years.

I doubt Hurley would feel "nothing left to accomplish at the college level" for quite some time.

He and his family have a brand, an association with northeast basketball at the HS/college level. Is he really going to want to drag Andrea to Salt Lake City or Houston?
 
Samoo said:
Wonder how much longer Pop plans on coaching...?
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Spurs take Castle and DC in this year’s draft, sign Newt and Cam as a free agents to join Wemby this season. Then draft LMac (that’s the name I’m giving Liam this year) and AK next season.

Pop coaches them up, retires in 3 years and hands the keys over to Danny making them an unstopped force.

I like it.
 
temery said:
Two successful seasons with one more championship than Ollie.
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Ollie’s championship was with a 7th seeded team, with players Calhoun recruited and developed. I don’t think Ollie ever coached a team seeded higher than 7 in tournament, and only made the tournament 2 of his 6 years. In 2016-17, with team ranked 18 in preseason ended up 16-17 and lost to 2 sub 200 non conference opponent s.

Hurley has made tournament 4 years in a row with back to back titles and back to back 30+ win seasons. His winning percentage has improved each season. The teams success is beyond anything I imagined was possible.
 
W\If and when he is done at UConn, and that includes getting his son's career stared, the Knick's job is the only place for Danny in the NBA. Winning an NBA championship at MSG would be his piece de resistance.
 
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He's been saying this or some variation of this for years now. There is no new news here.

That being said, how painful would it be for him to leap to the NBA only to fail and come back to college at a place like Duke or Kentucky....
 
whosurdaddy2720 said:
He's been saying this or some variation of this for years now. There is no new news here.

That being said, how painful would it be for him to leap to the NBA only to fail and come back to college at a place like Duke or Kentucky....
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He wouldnt do that. If the above scenario happened I could only see him going to Seton Hall. He would stay in Northeast and he loves his alma mater.
 
Damn Mike wont shut the hell up and let Dan talk. Couple times he was making a point and this dolt starts talking over him. I really wanted to hear Dan finish his point on NCAA tournament distributions.
 
ItsNotSo said:
Larry Brown is the best example I can think of.
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PJ Carlesimo and Rick Pitino!

There’s not many for a reason. I don’t think college translates to NBA very easily.

Hopefully he sees his Dads path and Calhouns path and realizes greatness is greatness.

Calhoun was almost woo’d to NBA with Butler. He made right call I think.
 
i think he will do great for a variety of reasons. but it'll be better if the org is a high functioning one
 
NJHoops said:
His “leverage” is winning back to back championships, retaining and developing players, and being one of the best current coaches in the game. If he was interested in negotiating through public comments, he would have played the Kentucky thing way differently.
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I lived in Western Mass when Calipari was at UMass and you're absolutely right.
Whenever there was a major opening Calipari's agent would put out the canned press release: Coach Calipari has no interest in the opening.
It didn't say he's been contacted. Didn't say he was invited to visit the school. Didn't say anything except that he has no interest at this time...........hard to have interest if they're not interested in him but it kept his name out there every time there was a major opening.
 
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This won't happen for a long time, I'm thinking about 8-15 years. He has said multiple times, he is no where near "Zen enough" to be an NBA Head Coach, yet. Keyword, being yet (and it may never happen). There is a pretty good possibility that he stays at UConn until he retires.
 
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Please don’t be real. Please don’t be real. Please don’t be real.
 
If Adrian is the one saying it, I'm sure it's real. Bristol giveth (Clingan), and Bristol taketh away (Woj). Sigh.
 
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