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intlzncster said:
You'd be surprised. He's a very emotional and loyal dude, so the pull of staying at URI is real.

And his wife is way more involved in this decision than people on this board think. She's nixed a job in the past, even after he accepted. She loves RI.
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I was very pleased to see at least one report say that his family is in favor of the move to UConn.
 
8893 said:
He should do a press conference where he announces his decision by entering riding on a ram, a husky or a panther.
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I am getting a feeling he ain't coming here. I know I may be wrong big time. ACC v. the AAC? No brainer.
 
Dove said:
I am getting a feeling he ain't coming here. I know I may be wrong big time. ACC v. the AAC? No brainer.
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I still think Pitt is far and away his third choice, but the money difference may be giving him pause.
 
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Dove said:
I am getting a feeling he ain't coming here. I know I may be wrong big time. ACC v. the AAC? No brainer.
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ConnHuskBask said:
You're right about Louisville.

I think I disagre about the other schools, but it's close.

Point being, the contended at the top of the Big East for a decade. I don't think its that crazy of an idea they can repeat that in the ACC.
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It's possible, but the BE never had two programs with the history of Duke and UNC clogging up the conference. The schools that founded the BE did good things and were strong programs with good pasts, but even then it was easier to muscle your way up to the top. Pitt is definitively behind the two of those schools, and then you add in Syracuse and Louisville...before you get to schools with better histories and who actually play near the other teams, like NC State and Virginia. With teams like Clemson, Florida State, and NC State coming on strong, there are a lot more teams that you have to leapfrog than you did in the BE.

For instance, in 2003, when Pitt finally won a BET, 4 out of 15 schools made the tournament. That ain't what's happening in the ACC, and it pretty much never will provided UNC and Duke avoid the death penalty.
 
polycom said:
I can't believe we are in a coaching battle with URI and Pitt. KO should be banned from campus.
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If we lose Hurley then we really need to reconsider our football program. And I'm a football fan first.
 
Whatever. If URI concedes to his requests, hopefully we can just offer him 250-300k more per year and put the nail in the coffin.
 
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If he truly just wants URI to meet his demands, i dont see how he leaves there. Only way is if his demands arent reasonable. If you point a gun to my head and demand a million dollars, i still cant get it for you. If you point a gun to my head and ask for everything in my checking account, I most certainly can pull that off. If he is asking for what they cant do, then his request is bs to begin with. If he is asking for something they can give, i dont see how in the world they dont. So if he is being reasonable based on what they can afford, and he means what he is saying, there is no way he is leaving URI.
 
UconnFanNVa said:
If he truly just wants URI to meet his demands, i dont see how he leaves there. Only way is if his demands arent reasonable. If you point a gun to my head and demand a million dollars, i still cant get it for you. If you point a gun to my head and ask for everything in my checking account, I most certainly can pull that off. If he is asking for what they cant do, then his request is bs to begin with. If he is asking for something they can give, i dont see how in the world they dont. So if he is being reasonable based on what they can afford, and he means what he is saying, there is no way he is leaving URI.
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I don't think he wants that much more money from URI. It seems as though he rather have the money invested into the program and URI may already be at its limit. I'm sure the president and AD are working on a hail mary right now to keep Hurley, but I don't think it will be enough.
 
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tcf15 said:
I don't think he wants that much more money from URI. It seems as though he rather have the money invested into the program and URI may already be at its limit. I'm sure the president and AD are working on a hail mary right now to keep Hurley, but I don't think it will be enough.
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Well if he wants a practice facility, he's talking about possibly tens of millions over a few years.
 
If he stays, I think he has under estimated what it will take to consistently be a top contender at URI in my opinion.
 
tcf15 said:
I don't think he wants that much more money from URI. It seems as though he rather have the money invested into the program and URI may already be at its limit. I'm sure the president and AD are working on a hail mary right now to keep Hurley, but I don't think it will be enough.
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The URI AD can promise Hurley a $30 Mil practice facility, but he won't have the money/timeline/plans to back it up. Is a promise and a handshake enough? I would hope not.
 
I'd think it's a good sign re Hurley that we haven't heard any other rumors about UConn. None. Not even the guys that interviewed with others. Not even the random rumors that seem to be placed by agents hoping to make their clients look wanted. Hopefully that means that this is a done deal and Hurley is trying to go out the right way. If not... oh boy, things could get ugly.
 
auror said:
Well if he wants a practice facility, he's talking about possibly tens of millions over a few years.
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Yeah, and a plan for that should have already been in place well before UConn came calling for Hurley, but I don't know if there is one. It seems like it's been on Hurley's wishlist for a while now judging by this tweet from 2015:
 
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