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Message: [QUOTE="Drew, post: 3035047, member: 3723"] [URL="https://theathletic.com/811369/2019/02/11/what-the-f-are-you-doing-watching-dan-hurley-as-he-lights-the-match-on-a-memphis-uconn-rivalry/"]"What the duck* are you doing?" Watching Dan Hurley as he...[/URL] [I]This season has proven to be a revival for the Memphis basketball program. Season tickets have nearly tripled year-over-year. Though the results have been inconsistent (the Tigers entered Sunday’s game against UConn on a three-game losing streak), more than 17,000 fans filled FedExForum to watch the matinee against the Huskies. (Compare that to an announced attendance of 2,417 that watched the matchup last year.) And yet once the game tipped, one voice drowned out all the rest: that of first-year UConn coach Dan Hurley. What served as a preview for what may end up being the next great American Athletic Conference rivalry quickly took a back seat to a sideline performance from Hurley that even the executives at the nearby Orpheum Theatre would appreciate. Depending on which way a call went, Hurley was equal parts maniacal, exasperated, infuriated and electrified. He rode the officials virtually every other possession in a losing effort; Memphis won, 78-71. He let F-bombs fly as freely as Tyler Harris did 3-pointers. The coach’s box, for Hurley, might as well have been a coach’s ranch. In other words, Hurley is the antithesis of his first-year counterpart at Memphis, Penny Hardaway, who is mute in comparison.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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