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[QUOTE="freescooter, post: 4252531, member: 1023"]
That Is a straw man argument.  Our best teams blow this one out of the building.  But THIS team lost to New Mexico State, a 12 seed in the first round of the NCAA tournament.  This is the second consecutive year a Hurley coached team lost to a higher seed.

The Calhoun comparisons are just foolish.  Once again, In his first year Calhoun took over a terrible team.  By year 4 he was in the Elite 8.  And he played in a far better conference than the current NOOBIE.  Here are some of the coaches at the time. Jim Boeheim, John Thompson, Lou Carnesecca, Rick Pitino, PJ Carlissimo, Rollie Masamino, Jim O’Brien.  That just gives you a taste of what that league was like.  In Year 4 there were 4 top 10, not top 25, teams in that league.  Oh, and he Only lost a first round game 1 time.  Dan Hurley has now done it twice.

And just for the record, he took Northeastern from D2 to D1 and within 2 years had them in the NCAA tournament. I might suggest that is a tougher jump than AAC to the NOOB.  He missed In 1979 because under the rule at the time Northeastern wasn’t eligible as a transitional team though they won their league.

Please stop trying to defend young Dan by comparing his “accomplishments” to Calhoun’s.  It just embarrasses you and indicates how modest young Dan’s list really is.
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