Some Guy: UConn close to signing Hurley

[Kemba15]

lol thanks Chris...very useful tweet

 

[MattMang23]

My gut feeling is, like any good businessman, Hurley heard our pitch earlier yesterday. He took the offer to Pitt last night and told them give him something today. They did. He's taking their offer back to us and giving us last right to match. URI is already out of it. That's how I'm reading this.

 

[BaZZnBOAT]

Frank Martin can't recruit to save his life. It'll only get worse in the AAC. Hurley recruits well to the A-10 and has nowhere to go but up

Am I missing something on PJ Dozier and Thornwell? Let’s be real, South Carolina and KState are not easy places to recruit to regardless of conference.

 

[AntG168]

My gut feeling is, like any good businessman, Hurley heard our pitch earlier yesterday. He took the offer to Pitt last night and told them give him something today. They did. He's taking their offer back to us and giving us last right to match. URI is already out of it. That's how I'm reading this.

I hope not. We can’t match 3.5 million. Can we?

 

[Robertelamin]

Someone start the Oats thread.

 

[metsfan2323]

Does it?

13 NCAA tournament victories vs 1.

 

[ZenConn]

This thread can't die. We haven't had an obligatory "Are you Hurleys mom?" response yet with all of these insider takes.

 

[JMick]

I don't buy this narrative. It has been reported multiple places that UConn made their pitch and offer on Monday and have felt good about it the whole way. They aren't idiots; they knew Pitt would come swinging with ACC money. They knew that going in. Maybe we lose him but i don't think we got "blindsided" here

I don't care if we lose him because Pitt offers $4mm. I do care if we thought he was a sure thing at $2.5

 

[the Q]

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.

If twitter existed the arod trade stuff in 03-04 would’ve been a blast

 

[MattMang23]

I hope not. We can’t match 3.5 million. Can we?

Doesn't have to be a "match" per se. I used the wrong word. But close enough where it meets his expectations of fair compensation for a job he's been eyeing.

 

[Robertelamin]

If twitter existed the arod trade stuff in 03-04 would’ve been a blast

That would have been amazing.

 

[AntG168]

Did Pitt make this offer yesterday before all of the done deal to UConn talk. Or did they up it after the UConn talk?(I know no one can answer this question. Just thinking out loud)

 

[CL82]

Who knows? The people who responded to his poll, that's who:
Chris Mueller (@ChrisMuellerPGH) | Twitter
This time tomorrow evening, Dan Hurley will be the coach of:

18%Rhode Island
26%Pitt
56%UConn

 

[Dibbie]

To quote another boneyarder....booooo

 

[uchusky32]

Did Pitt make this offer yesterday before all of the done deal to UConn talk. Or did they up it after the UConn talk?

They made it 20 minutes ago?

 

[mauconnfan]

Don't give the guy 3.5 million he's done nothing to warrant that number. I'm not even cool with 3M find another coach of impact who will be happy going from 650K to 2.2M and let him work some magic. Kevin Ollie won a NC and deserved that number at that time, well not the extension. Nonetheless 3.5 too much for Danny Hurley not a good move even though it's not my money.

 

[UConnNick]

We definitely have the best pizza thread...and the best pizza.

Yes, our pizza blows Rhode Island's out of the water, and I don't think they even know what pizza is in Pittsburgh. They're still wolfing down Roethlis-burgers.

 

[buddy]

Quite frankly, UConn does not lose to Pitt. Don't get sucked into the click bait. Let it play out.

UConn lost to Pitt in conference realignment. Have you forgotten?

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

There is literally no indication which school he will pick, but BY gonna BY.

Eh, kick rocks.

 

[JMick]

Did Pitt make this offer yesterday before all of the done deal to UConn talk. Or did they up it after the UConn talk?(I know no one can answer this question. Just thinking out loud)

We offered, Pitt offered, we countered, looked good, Pitt countered with big bucks. That's the story I'm getting

 

[intlzncster]

I don't care if we lose him because Pitt offers $4mm. I do care if we thought he was a sure thing at $2.5

Yup. 4m UCONN can't do. Just the way it is. But if we sat back satisfied we had it, then we are the complete fools we've shown ourselves to be.

 

[uconnphil2016]

god that was LOL

Picturing Chief writing a brief from prison does make me LOL. I imagine it would look something like this...

 

[djct1999]

I hope not. We can’t match 3.5 million. Can we?

For some reason, I assume you are young which probably means you never bought a house. For me, well my wife, we had a budget on what we wanted to spend. We then saw the house of her dreams which was priced at the top of our range. We got in a bidding war which we ended up winning. Problem is we shot through our initial budget. The moral of the story is sometimes you get so engaged in winning that money becomes secondary. We can't lose Hurley over a few 100k. Can we afford it? I have no idea. I just know we can't lose him by getting out bid. Today, 10 years later, we are still in the same house and my wife still loves it. Spend the extra dough DB!

 

[AntG168]

We offered, Pitt offered, we countered, looked good, Pitt countered with big bucks. That's the story I'm getting

So we can still counter I’d assume?

 

[huskymedic]

I don't care if we lose him because Pitt offers $4mm. I do care if we thought he was a sure thing at $2.5

We offered, Pitt offered, we countered, looked good, Pitt countered with big bucks. That's the story I'm getting

So you're saying UConn's counter was $2.5m?