Kenya Hunter to Indiana

[gwhuskyfan]

 

[Wordbomar]

Go get Kevin Freeman back.

 

[CashewCrew]

I thought he turned the job down? Wow

 

[Fantana]

Go get Kevin Freeman back.

No thanks. Hurley hires with purpose not fanfare. That was the previous coach who ran us into the ground. He will hire someone who will help us recruit his footprint and not someone just because the donned the uniform at one time.

 

[WrenchFan69]

So weak

 

[WrenchFan69]

Poach Killings back from Marquette lol

 

[Bonk]

Reaaaaaally hope this doesn't affect Hawkins' commitment

 

[zls44]

Oh wow I thought this was an unsubstantiated rumor weird huh


(I'm guessing IU just kept increasing the $$$ until he'd have been an idiot to say no)

 

[8893]

Thanks for your good work here, Kenya.

Best of luck—except when you play us.

Does this place any recruits at risk of decommitting?

 

[Psolo12]

Lateral move at best. Doesn’t really make sense, feels like he could have parlayed our future success and his recruiting success into a head coaching job in a year or two. Good luck to coach hunter regardless.

 

[kansashusky]

Wow. That’s less than ideal.

 

[zls44]

Lateral move at best.

Not to his accountant.

 

[Psolo12]

Not to his accountant.

He was making over $300k here. Did they give him that much of a pay raise?

 

[UChusky916]

Why can't we have nice things

 

[BackAftaThis]

Reaaaaaally hope this doesn't affect Hawkins' commitment

Anything is possible but at the end of the day you commit to the school and the head coach. No different than Payne leaving Kentucky.

 

[Chin Diesel]

good luck going forward Kenya. Thanks for being part of the turnaround.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

I don’t like it

 

[zls44]

I don’t like it

Not one bit

 

[6xChamps]

Reaaaaaally hope this doesn't affect Hawkins' commitment

In interviews Hawkins has said something that he liked about UConn was that Hurley was on all their calls and it wasn’t just Kenya doing the recruiting. Hopefully that helps keep him onboard.

 

[superjohn]

Why can't we have nice things

We have so many nice things right now it's not even funny.

 

[polycom]

Lol everything thinks they know things till they don’t.

 

[Austin316]

Greeeeeeeat. Lets hope we have a good mitigation plan.

 

[UconnMICK]

Well that blows

 

[djct1999]

Totally sucks to lose Kenya but hasn’t Dan Hurley earned our trust he will pick an adequate replacement. Best of luck Kenya and thanks.

 

[UConnSwag11]

Greeeeeeeat. Lets hope we have a good mitigation plan.

I’d hope they knew about this for awhile so they could have a backup

 

[dannyHAM]

Is what it is. Hurley will replace him with a great coach. This is what happens when your program starts turning around. Kimani will leave one day too. Wish him the best, but in Hurley I trust.

 

[Ts5034]

WOW. I guess that rumor on Twitter from a few weeks ago was actually true...

 

[UConnSwag11]

Same position?

 

[Hoophound]

I’m pretty sure based on the way Dan prepares, he already knows who he is getting and recruiting will be a strong suit again.

 

[BackAftaThis]

As others have said this is what happens when your program gets hot.

I trust Hurley as a plan and will have plenty of attractive suitors.