Dan Hurley to UConn could be all about the money

[Huskybass]

Hurley won as many NCAA tourney games on Thursday as Cooley has in 13 years as a head coach. Methinks FriarJ should go back to his safe space.

 

[8893]

Cooley loves homophobes.

This is some of the weakest trolling I've ever seen.

It brought you back out of the closet, though.

 

[Tenspro2002]

Perfect - similarities to JC.

Eh, there's a big difference between being animated on the sidelines and attacking opposing players with homophobic slurs.

Quite frankly, we could use a bigger sideline presence from our coach, somebody willing to hold his players and the officials accountable. Nobody feared KO on either bench or among the zebras and it was painfully obvious. We don't want a choir boy on our sideline. FriarJ seems to badly misunderstand this.

That said, what he supposedly did or said against Maryland would certainly cross the line. No idea how substantiated any of this is, however.

 

[Tenspro2002]

"An expletive" in and of itself means nothing.

If he chastised them for "talking [bleep]", there's no issue with that.

If he actually called them "[bleeping] [bleep]ggots", that's a bigger problem.

 

[UConnSwag11]

"An expletive" in and of itself means nothing.

If he chastised them for "talking [bleep]", there's no issue with that.

If he actually called them "[bleeping] [bleep]ggots", that's a bigger problem.

That tweet is three years ago. The incident was three years ago

 

[uconnphil2016]

I was hearing a ton of Hurley talk up until a couple days ago and since then it's all quiet. Either we're in the process of negotiating or we struck out.

Exactly. And if we were negotiating successfully, I'm not sure this money article would be coming out.

 

[intlzncster]

Out of banal curiousity, is this sarcasm? Quite frankly, I can't tell anymore.

 

[UConnSwag11]

Was in November 2015. Rhode Island's AD essentially said it didn't happen: Rhode Island AD denies coach cursed at Maryland players

So it was investigated and dealt with. People need to get a life. If this is what people want to use against Hurley then it’s sad. People here were open to having pitino here for crying out loud

 

[PAHusky]

No one cares. You've posted ten times in this thread and said absolutely nothing. Every article or link you share says he said something to the effect of "good game stop talking ". No one but you and a few other random anonymous people that probably weren't there either are the only ones coming in hot with the homophobic charge. It's an accusation that's years old and there hasn't been any scintilla of him doing anything like that since, if ever. Why are you here again?

 

[intlzncster]

Huh? Hurley the person is exactly who you want to hire. By every account, he's a fantastic person.

Perhaps a bit too competitive and protective of his kids. We've got experience with that kind of guy. And we liked it.

EDIT: I read on. Yeah, he has done some growing. Probably more to do. Apparently, Tom Moore has helped him in this area, according to an article I read.

 

[FDNY99]

Huh? Hurley the person is exactly who you want to hire. By every account, he's a fantastic person.

Perhaps a bit too competitive and protective of his kids. We've got experience with that kind of guy. And we liked it.

Worked out pretty well for us too in the banner category....

 

[intlzncster]

Are these two legal counselors chopping it up?

Got myself a preprofessional law degree out of this whole thing. So there's that.

 

[upstater]

Huh. I checked. There's no top ranked NJ kid available for 2018. May be for 2019 then.

 

[RipCity]

Has Hurley followed the Electric Blue staff on instagram yet?

 

[intlzncster]

Gotta admit Whtdmd being the only one to like this gave me a chuckle.

 

[BLUEDOGHOUSE]

Has Hurley followed the Electric Blue staff on instagram yet?

Gonna be a downgrade from Wild Zebra for him. Needs to consult w/KO.

 

[DefCONNOne]

You came here to troll and derail a thread, not to "have a discussion". But I guess hypocrisy is a tenet in your life.

 

[RipCity]

Gonna be a downgrade from Wild Zebra for him. Needs to consult w/KO.

Didn’t you hear? KO prefers Grants in West Hartford. Just another example of him spending all his time chasing five stars instead of accepting local interested talent.

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

If using expletives was a litmus test for UConn coaches, Calhoun would've been fired in the 80s.

 

[DefCONNOne]

No, no, no, trust him, he heard from a SLEW of people who heard it from their friends who were there!

Is that anything like Simone's best friend's, sister's, boyfriend's, brother's girlfriend hearing from some guy, who knows this kid, who's going with this girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 flavors last night"?

 

[TheRealKBuks]

Is this suppose to make me like him less?

 

[UConnNick]

If using expletives was a litmus test for UConn coaches, Calhoun would've been fired in the 80s.

How about Musselman in the locker room after the Texas win? Morality police alert: fire him!

 

[intlzncster]

JC absolutely destroyed officials. Road them like the laziest of pack mules.

I think by the end they had grudging respect for the guy because he was so dogged....and out lasted most of them.

 

[intlzncster]

I really think people are reading these things wrong. We aren't in the best of spots with coaching possibilites right now. Hurley's a good one, but the vast majority aren't doing cartwheels right now. He's also our first choice apparently, so if we don't land him, it's a bad look, especially given all the factors that are in our favor with this particular hire.

Board view of Hurley as a coach: cautiously optimistic.

 

[intlzncster]

Didn’t you hear? KO prefers Grants in West Hartford. Just another example of him spending all his time chasing five stars instead of accepting local interested talent.

Can't keep ignoring your own backyard. Plenty of available coeds in Storrs.