Dan Hurley to UConn could be all about the money

[TheRealKBuks]

He is a maniac on the sideline, the officials all hate him (just watch almost any RI game) He may have matured and that is the hope I guess but ask Mark Turgeon or Melo Trimble about him. A few years ago in Cancun Maryland smoked URI and Hurley greeted each and every Maryland player in the the handshake line by calling them a f ing f a g g o t. It started quite a mess as you can imagine.

In regards to URI, I grew up literally next to the campus and I root for them always except when playing PC, so it's not that. He was a punk as a player and it's carried over into his coaching. He can coach though so if that's all you care about then he will do fine.

Is this suppose to make me like him less?

 

[UConnNick]

If using expletives was a litmus test for UConn coaches, Calhoun would've been fired in the 80s.

How about Musselman in the locker room after the Texas win? Morality police alert: fire him!

 

[intlzncster]

My recollection of JC that it was reserved for the players, with Hurley it's for the officials.

JC absolutely destroyed officials. Road them like the laziest of pack mules.

I think by the end they had grudging respect for the guy because he was so dogged....and out lasted most of them.

 

[intlzncster]

I am not upset, I will leave it be. Ed Cooley and Hurley are very good friends so I suspect if you get him the schools will be playing each other again. He's just not my cup of tea and I see the mutual masterbation threads here concerning him and I simply asked if anybody has thought about how he acts or if you care, nothing more than that.

I really think people are reading these things wrong. We aren't in the best of spots with coaching possibilites right now. Hurley's a good one, but the vast majority aren't doing cartwheels right now. He's also our first choice apparently, so if we don't land him, it's a bad look, especially given all the factors that are in our favor with this particular hire.

Board view of Hurley as a coach: cautiously optimistic.

 

[intlzncster]

Didn’t you hear? KO prefers Grants in West Hartford. Just another example of him spending all his time chasing five stars instead of accepting local interested talent.

Can't keep ignoring your own backyard. Plenty of available coeds in Storrs.

 

[Whtdmd]

True I guess, he will certainly be a 180 from your current coach. I just don't like the guy and never have. I saw his team play against Ohio State at Mohegan Sun and he was an embarrassment on the sidelines. But to each their own.

Thank you for posting. Sometimes we need an outsider's perspective on the situation

 

[husky8273]

I just got an email from Milone and MacBroom, Inc. announcing some guy named David Hurley joined the firm. No lie, my heart skipped thinking it was an announcement that Danny signed on as coach.

Jeez.

isn't the new Alumni trustee from Milone & MacBroom?