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Hurley on LeBatard

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They tried to get him to admit there was a number that would make him leave, and I mean yeah obviously there’s always a number but it would probably have to be insanely high, and he would need buy in. It sounded like the whole family was against it, and he sounded like he appreciates the college game even more now. I still think the minute a NBA team near here offers him a decent contract he’s probably gone. But that’s not now
 
I will listen at some point tonight or this weekend, but did they discuss if Dan Hurley felt he was lowballed. That part of the story has interested me all week. The idea that he was to be offered some absurd NBA contract. But in the end was offered a fairly normal contract. Or at least lower than the top NBA coaches.
 
MexicoHusky said:
I will listen at some point tonight or this weekend, but did they discuss if Dan Hurley felt he was lowballed. That part of the story has interested me all week. The idea that he was to be offered some absurd NBA contract. But in the end was offered a fairly normal contract. Or at least lower than the top NBA coaches.
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He pretty much said “sure there’s always a number to make you think about leaving” which infers they didn’t hit that number. But people are also not taking into account that literally everyone in his family wasn’t for it.
 
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People love to believe in "leverage plays", they think it's 3-D chess at work. In this case, Hurley had real interest until the insulting offer.
 
aceboon said:
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"One of the worst takes I've heard is that this is a leverage play by me to improve my situation at UConn," Hurley said on the show. "I don't need leverage here. We've won back-to-back national championships at this place. This was never a leverage situation for me.

"I've had a contract in place here for a couple of weeks. And the final part, in terms of salary, has been done for a while. There are some other parts, like NIL and staff salary and some different things, that I want adjusted and I'm not comfortable with. But the sense of the idea that this was some conspiracy to get me a sweeter deal at UConn is just, it's lazy."

www.espn.com

Dan Hurley: Rejecting Lakers' offer was not 'leverage play'

Dan Hurley told "The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz" that the rejection of the Lakers' offer was not a leverage play, noting he has a deal in place at UConn that will make him the highest-paid coach in college basketball.
www.espn.com www.espn.com
 
Seemed like he felt awkward in both the LeBatard and Cowherd interviews. He was never going to leave UConn/Northeast basketball. His agent and him probably felt Lakers was a call you needed to take and it would raise his profile to the next level.
 
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MexicoHusky said:
I will listen at some point tonight or this weekend, but did they discuss if Dan Hurley felt he was lowballed. That part of the story has interested me all week. The idea that he was to be offered some absurd NBA contract. But in the end was offered a fairly normal contract. Or at least lower than the top NBA coaches.
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No he said he and UConn have had the money all set for a while and are just working on other things.
 
Hurley did also say, though, that the Lakers could have lured him over if they offered more money - but stated he did not know how much that would be exactly. He is saying that it is possible to be offered enough money that he would leave.

 
Irvine said:
Seemed like he felt awkward in both the LeBatard and Cowherd interviews. He was never going to leave UConn/Northeast basketball. His agent and him probably felt Lakers was a call you needed to take and it would raise his profile to the next level.
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That isn't what he said. He said he was completely torn and didn't know what he was going to do until he went to bed.

Maybe people here where that confident he was going to stay. Maybe Hurley is smoothing over his decision process, but from his own lips, he was on the fence on both sides as to what his final decision was going to be...
 
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HooperScooper said:
"One of the worst takes I've heard is that this is a leverage play by me to improve my situation at UConn," Hurley said on the show. "I don't need leverage here. We've won back-to-back national championships at this place. This was never a leverage situation for me.
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So it wasn't leverage and his wife would have divorced him if he took the job -- but he headed out to LA anyways. Got it.
 
Irvine said:
Seemed like he felt awkward in both the LeBatard and Cowherd interviews. He was never going to leave UConn/Northeast basketball. His agent and him probably felt Lakers was a call you needed to take and it would raise his profile to the next level.
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I got no issues against him doing that, but damn, as a UConn fan 4.5 days of constant speculating felt like I got mind phucked. Hurley could have left UConn. I don't think it's correct to say he was never going to leave UConn/Northeast basketball.

In the end, not only did Hurley raise his profile, but UConn basketball's profile got raised immensely. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
 
ec33 said:
So it wasn't leverage and his wife would have divorced him if he took the job -- but he headed out to LA anyways. Got it.
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If the offer was 100M for 6, Dan and Andrea are happily house hunting on the left coast as we speak.
 
Waquoit said:
If the offer was 100M for 6, Dan and Andrea are happily house hunting on the left coast as we speak.
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She was "angry" but not "angry angry."

Oh -- and he asked AK for advice. So really it is Alex we should thanking for deciding he would rather play for Dan Hurley next year instead of a mystery coach to be named later.
 
ec33 said:
She was "angry" but not "angry angry."

Oh -- and he asked AK for advice. So really it is Alex we should thanking for deciding he would rather play for Dan Hurley next year instead of a mystery coach to be named later.
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He also went out of his way to make clear that he didn't listen to what Alex advised him.
 
All aboard
aceboon said:
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Stugots reference is perfect, just what I needed to hear. This board is already rife with Sopranos posting and here’s Dan Hurley shoveling on the mojo because we are a family and even in this bleeped up day and age it means something to him, regardless of the impacts financially-wise.

Big things next year for Jalen Stewgots.

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