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Some Guy: UConn close to signing Hurley

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JMick said:
might want to change it to FrankMartin2018
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Not a bad fallback choice at all.....guy took an after thought USC East program and made them
Competitive..made a final 4
 
Robertelamin said:
So close to 50 pages. Providing a helpful nudge.
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Good idea! Hurley is clearly waiting to go to the first program whose message board racks up a 50-page thread on his coaching decision.

We’ll have to see if he’s willing to count off-topic posts about CT taxes and politics as part of the total. If not, we may need to get this thread up to about 70 pages or so before he pulls the trigger.
 
VAHuskyFan said:
Good idea! Hurley is clearly waiting to go to the first program who’s message board racks up a 50-page thread on his coaching decision.

We’ll have to see if he’s willing to count off-topic posts about CT taxes and politics as part of the total. If not, we may need to get this thread up to about 70 pages or so before he pulls the trigger.
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We definitely have the best pizza thread...and the best pizza.
 
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JMick said:
might want to change it to FrankMartin2018
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An E8 & Final4 on the resume. @ South Car. and KState. I mean the guy can coach good basketball.

Just not what people would consider the quintessential UConn guy because of his previous BCS head coaching experience.

JMHO
 
FDNY99 said:
Not a bad fallback choice at all.....guy took an after thought USC East program and made them
Competitive..made a final 4
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I'm sorry, but if UConn can't land its first choice, then that alone is a statement of the status of UConn athletics on the national scene.
 
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Huskybass said:
We definitely have the best pizza thread...and the best pizza.
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Sold! That better have been part of Benedict’s sales pitch: “Dan, we have — without a doubt — the best pizza-related threads on our fan message board. That’s something URI or Pitt frankly can’t offer you. Think it over.”
 
buddy said:
Rutgers and BC as career killers? They are rolling in dough, as is Pitt. Doesn't matter if they win or lose, they get their B1G/ ACC payout.
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Yes, because that's what fans care about, and why coaches personally take jobs. The university getting cash.

Coaches want to win. They don't do that at Rutgers or BC. Outside of 2 years of Howland or so, and a streak with Dixon, Pitt hasn't either.
 
I just can’t see him choosing Pitt. This is all misdirection. I have to believe we’d get ouroffer close enough to Pitt’s. This is all about pride now. This is too Public we need to lock him up. This is OUR guy, we ain’t going out like this
 
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BaZZnBOAT said:
There is literally no indication which school he will pick, but BY gonna BY.
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Seriously. What actual new information has actually come out? We knew roughly what we offered, we knew roughly what Pitt would offer, and we were the leaders. Now, suddenly, just because time has passed, we're doomed?
 
JMick said:
either it's done and all of this is smoke and last ditch efforts from his agent or we swung and miss on something we thought was a done deal for a while.
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So the inside info is we either got him or we don't got him? Thanks...
 
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Deadrody said:
Look, bub, I live out of state and have for 30 years. I don't pay one red cent in CT taxes. Know what ? I have been donating to the UConn Fund for 20 of those years. Fact is, my donations are funding UConn basketball infinitely more than your taxes. Get bent
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I fairly certain you have not donated more than state taxpayers have paid - and the UConn Senate University Budget Committee (SUBC) says as much.
https://senate.uconn.edu/wp-content...Senate-UBC-Report-on-AD-Subsidy-to-Senate.pdf

On the whole the UConn athletic department is now heavily subsidized. If your aren't familiar with public budgeting terminology, in this case "subsidy" means State appropriations to UConn. ANd for the record, this doesn't even account for capital expenditure (like the Gample roof). ;)

- Between 2005 and 2017, expenditures for the AD grew 70% from $47 million to $80 million.
- During this same period, despite numerous high-profile achievements in women’s and men’s basketball, earned revenues increased by less than 10%.
- Fairly stagnant revenues meant that most (83%) of the $33 million increase in the Athletics budget has been subsidized by UConn; an additional $8.3 million comes from mandatory student fees.
- The subsidy has increased by a factor of almost nine from $3.5 million in 2005 to an estimated $31 million in 2017.
- The extent to which the AD budget is subsidized grew from 7.3% in 2005 to 38.6% in 2017.

- Only one of UConn’s sports teams—men’s basketball—receives sufficient direct revenues to cover its costs.
- Despite the outstanding achievements made by the women’s basketball team during the period of analysis, the low revenues for women’s sports compared to men’s, resulted in the team being subsidized.
- UConn’s football team was the team with the largest deficit in absolute dollar terms, requiring a subsidy of $7.5 million for 2014.​
 
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Quite frankly, UConn does not lose to Pitt. Don't get sucked into the click bait. Let it play out.
 
reddevilhusky said:
I love that this meltdown started because someone on the URI forum saw someone on the Pitt forum say they were confident of Hurley being announced tomorrow. Pay no mind to the national and local journalists who still think it’s up in the air. Never change Boneyard!
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We as a fan base have severe ptsd. I’m trying to talk myself off the ledge right now lol
 
MattMang23 said:
So the inside info is we either got him or we don't got him? Thanks...
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more like we had him and got blindsided by Pitt's offer. Which means our entire athletic department is incompetent. I'm hoping it's all noise and it's still a done deal like it supposedly was yesterday
 
JMick said:
either it's done and all of this is smoke and last ditch efforts from his agent or we swung and miss on something we thought was a done deal for a while.
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$5 million over the life of a contract is hard to beat....it sucks and I’m not happy about it at all...but when Pitt went all in it was gonna be hard for DB to match
 
The only thing sillier than this that I can remember was the 3-4 days it took for the Red Sox to trade for Adrian Gonzalez. Twitter/Red Sox internet land was a mess.

TheMark Texeira sweepstakes was something else too.

This one is up there.
 
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