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Message: [QUOTE="superjohn, post: 4626891, member: 1522"] I can see the appeal of wanting to coach the best players in the world and testing yourself but the rest of if never made sense to me for highly successful college coaches making the jump to the NBA. In college it's all about the coach you're the star, in the NBA it's all about the player. For the most part you're just some guy coaching the stars. I've seen enough college coaches with major reps head off to the NBA only to have it end pretty poorly or have the wheels fall off and their coaching careers never getting back to what they once had... Maybe if there was such an enormous chasm in the money I could see it but there's not. Hurley will obviously have to be paid significantly more whenever that comes up but I don't think that's at all the end all be all or what drives him. Trading in a building legacy where you're loved by the entire state and a national media darling just to be another guy at the pro level has always seemed like a huge risk to me, the risks always seems to far outweigh the rewards... He clearly likes a challenge, likes building things, and proving himself but he would be leaving something really special behind that few have. I could see him going for it down the road but he seems to just be getting started here so if he ever makes the jump it seems like a long ways off. [/QUOTE]