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[QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 4254715, member: 1414"]
Huh? I'm not calling for Hurley to be fired.  I put the loss this year squarely on NMSU playing one of the greatest games in tournament history.  Last year?  We were unprepared and embarrassed. That Bradley team made the Sweet 16 by the way, beating Pitt after KU.

But if you must, Self won 20+ games in his 4th season at Oral Roberts after taking over a team much worse than UConn under Ollie.  Then took Tulsa to the NCAA tournament twice in 3 years, including a final season ranking of 18.  Then went to coach Illinois, where he won the B1G regular season or conference tournament all 3 years, went to the tournament all three years and had teams end the year ranked 4, 13 and 11.  That's before he got to Kansas.  [U]The last time he coached a team that didn't finish top 20 in the AP poll was 1999 at Tulsa[/U].  So yeah, Hurley is not where Self was at the same point (year 12) in their careers.  Not close really.

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