Opinion: Hurley Is Rebuilding For 27-28

[Magic32]

I'm not even certain that a team of UConn's stature can plan 2 years down the line in the new landscape.

Amazing if it can do this and has with players buying in from the start.

 

[RuffRuff]

26/27 is not a rebuild. It is a team both built on winning now and also set up to retain key pieces to win the following year. Hurley and staff have been doing a fantastic job of roster construction over the past 5 years. There is a nice mixture of veterans, underclassmen ready to play, rotational and development pieces to keep continuity and culture. Still more work to be done. Let "The Carpenter" apply his trade.

If all plays out right, we win this NC and then roll back a lineup of:

County
Ball
Landrew
Khamenia
Hines

Not a bad place to be.

 

[GlastonTim]

It’s important to carry over the culture each year with multi year players.

 

[Huskies990411]

Respectfully I couldn’t disagree more. In the portal era there is no need to take a year off and build for the future. Not to mention what we all know about Hurley, you think he takes a minute off never mind a year? You think Dan would half ass compete at anything? A lot of people on here are doubting some of the moves the staff is making. That’s fine but if you think any of them aren’t what they think they need to do to win and win now you have lost me.

Couldn’t agree with this enough.

 

[Scottobot]

I think he is just going after great players, and if he can get a great player who might stay for more than one year, even better.

 

[ec33]

Btw -- UConn will be able to add Ross and Demary to that 2027/28 team. Running it back minus Mullins plus Ball and whatever 5-star Hurley can convince to join UConn that year.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

No!
I haven’t given out a AZ award in a long time either positive or negative
But this thread is deserving .
The goal at UConn is to win a NC every year that objective requires both short and long range planning.

 

[Waquoit]

IMO, Goose nailed it in post #2. UConn wouldn’t have put the full court press on Mullins if they didn’t think they could win it again next year.

 

[Bigbrad1029]

Only at UConn can you have a pre-season Top 3 ranked team and you have fans talking about it being a rebuilding year for the next year. Complete insanity.

Lmfao!