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Message: [QUOTE="tcf15, post: 2629351, member: 208"] Brief snippet in this article on Hurley and George Blaney's relationship. Another plus for UConn. [B][URL="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/atlantic10/2015/02/17/dan-hurley-coach-rhode-island-basketball/23522023/"]Brief hoops hiatus turns into lifetime grip for Rhode Island coach Dan Hurley[/URL][/B] [I]After an outstanding playing career at St. Anthony, Hurley signed with nearby Seton Hall. Fans were hard on Hurley from the start and compared him with his older brother, Bobby, an All-American point guard who led Duke to two national championships. He quit the team in December 1993 two games into his junior season, disillusioned and burned out from a game he said he had been "obsessed" with since childhood. The following summer, Seton Hall replaced coach P.J. Carlesimo with George Blaney, who helped convince Hurley to return. "I wouldn't be involved in basketball if it wasn't for Coach," Hurley said of Blaney. "At the point that coach Blaney came into my life, the love-hate relationship that I had going with basketball was way, way closer to hate. Coach taught me that the game could be fun again and that it was OK to lose if you could look your teammates and your coaches in the eyes after the game and know that you gave your best effort. He saved my life in basketball."[/I] [/QUOTE]