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Hurley Interview on Pardon My Take
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1hr 37 min. Hurley drops somewhat of a bombshell about what he inherited from previous regime. Won’t harp on it but Hurley really hints on how bad it had gotten.
Thankfully he had a meeting with Calhoun who promptly put him in his place.
Thankfully he had a meeting with Calhoun who promptly put him in his place.
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Keep Rico away from this team.
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Wow. For people that can't listen, He said that he had "buyer's remorse" about coming here and specifically mentioned how disappointed he was in the talent, behavior, and academics of the players. Said he called his agent and asked if there was any way he could go back to URI, but wasn't possible because of the buyout. He went to Calhoun's office the day after the introductory press conference and coach told him to "Get your head out of your a**. This is UConn." That's all it took for Dan to get down to business rebuilding this thing. Crazy story.
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At the watch party I was at with my friends (about 20+ people), after those two bad plays I screamed at the TV "WTF are you guys doing!!!!!"...then the camera cut to Hurley doing the same exact thing. Was like an Inception moment and everyone was hysterical laughing...
Yeah, definitely recommend the Calhoun portion of this interview towards the end. While it's obviously in Hurley's interest to have a narrative that this program was at rock bottom before his arrival...it clearly was. JC is indispensable.
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Wow. That also puts his first couple of years into context, where it was clear he was essentially just coaching effort and togetherness after the players (and previous coaching regime) had basically given up. He wasn't even in a position to coach basketball IQ, offensive sets, etc., for a year or two.
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Prior to the tournament a Hurley interview was like listening to Ben Stein's character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. He's really loosened up.
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Hurley deserves tons of credit and appreciation for the UConn turnaround, but step 1 imo was getting the heck out of the AAC and back to the BE. None of this would be possible for UConn floundering in that mess...maybe the AAC works for some schools but not UConn.
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If you'd rather read about the interview.
"I took that job and it was a disaster, man. I mean, like talent, the way these guys were moving on campus, academics, behavior. It was so far away from like, anything you could win with," Hurley said on the podcast. "It was the day after the press conference and I've got like buyer's remorse scared I'm like, call my agent. 'Can I go back?' "
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"I took that job and it was a disaster, man. I mean, like talent, the way these guys were moving on campus, academics, behavior. It was so far away from like, anything you could win with," Hurley said on the podcast. "It was the day after the press conference and I've got like buyer's remorse scared I'm like, call my agent. 'Can I go back?' "
Tough love from Jim Calhoun? What UConn men's basketball coach Dan Hurley said on 'Pardon My Take' podcast
UConn's Dan Hurley opened up about his season and his tenure in Storrs on the podcast...
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