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Message: [QUOTE="freescooter, post: 3923323, member: 1023"] I think Hurley is fine. Not great, not awful. But I also think he fits the current mindset which strikes me as pretty interesting and goes something like this. UConn had an all-time great coach but now that he has retired our days of being a national power have effectively left with him. We want to be the a regional power, one of the top teams in the NBE which for all intents and purposes is the best of the northeastern conferences. We wanted a guy who knew the territory, had a bit of name recognition and will recruit pretty well between say, DC and Boston, but isn’t going to make a huge effort beyond that region. Maybe you can put together a great team doing that, but I tend to think you need to look beyond that limited footprint. But I suspect that UConn fans will be more than satisfied with being a ranked team, even if it is in the lower half of the Top 25, getting to the tournament on a pretty consistent basis, and winning a game or two here and there. BTW, I don’t hold Hurley responsible for this. He is what he is. I can’t imagine a Hurley coached team going to Stanford with its 2 best players injured and coming home with a win. Or out coaching K in a national championship game, or for that matter getting to one. I suspect if he did, he’d be hiding under the bed if he saw the Duke jerseys and Coach K on the other bench. Basically I think he is Kevin Willard. Good coach. Gonna win some games, maybe a NBE title or two, but not much beyond that. It’s fine. If he somehow puts together a run in the tourney he moves to Rutgers or a northern ACC school, if not he coaches at UConn for 10 years before he wears out his welcome. [/QUOTE]

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