is he no longer considered a "miracle worker"? uconn seems out of place even in aac.
Wondering about Hurley at UConn
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He won't have the luxury of being at Rhode Island and getting high risk High Major transfers to play against Mid Major competition.
The AAC is dramatically improved as far as coaching is concerned.
Gregg Marshall is at Wichita State
Kelvin Sampson at Houston
Penny Hardaway at Memphis is not a proven coach but connected with elite recruits in Memphis
Frank Haith has Power 5 experience at Tulsa
Fran Murphy is proven at Temple
Mick Cronin is still underrated at Cincinnati
Johnny Dawkins probably should still be at Stanford if not for a couple of bad seasons and doing well at UCF.
Brian Gregory was proven at Dayton and I felt did as much as you could do at Georgia Tech...he's got USF competing.
Other than maybe East Carolina and someone I may be forgetting, this is a real league as far as coaches with experience and some track record of success at almost every stop.
Hurley isn't going to lack for talent, UConn will ensure he gets players, by hook or crook, that's their extended history.
At the same time, he's not going to outwork these staffs like the A10...some of these coaches all have far better resumes and track records than Hurley, so he will have to really hope some of these schools lose some coaches to get UConn back on top of that league. Coaches like Kelvin Sampson are just better....
Gregg Marshall is at Wichita State
Kelvin Sampson at Houston
Penny Hardaway at Memphis is not a proven coach but connected with elite recruits in Memphis
Frank Haith has Power 5 experience at Tulsa
Fran Murphy is proven at Temple
Mick Cronin is still underrated at Cincinnati
Johnny Dawkins probably should still be at Stanford if not for a couple of bad seasons and doing well at UCF.
Brian Gregory was proven at Dayton and I felt did as much as you could do at Georgia Tech...he's got USF competing.
Other than maybe East Carolina and someone I may be forgetting, this is a real league as far as coaches with experience and some track record of success at almost every stop.
Hurley isn't going to lack for talent, UConn will ensure he gets players, by hook or crook, that's their extended history.
At the same time, he's not going to outwork these staffs like the A10...some of these coaches all have far better resumes and track records than Hurley, so he will have to really hope some of these schools lose some coaches to get UConn back on top of that league. Coaches like Kelvin Sampson are just better....
This. He never was a miracle worker, just has name recognition. That will disappear if it hasn't already.
Hope he loses every game he coaches at UConn.
9th out of 12 in the AAC. 0-6 on the road overall. 13-12 is not your typical UConn and I love it
Not me. I hope he wins just enough to not get fired, but not enough for UConn to be good. I want him to be there long enough for Pike to be entrenched at Rutgers.
I don't think Jevin Ollie would be doing any better than Hurley this season.
My God it caused me pain to type that. I can't stand Dan Hurley.
They weren't last year. But last year Pike had 2 losing seasons under his belt at Rutgers. But if Hurley is fired in 2-3 years, and Pike has 1 or 2 NCAA runs at Rutgers, then UConn might be interested.
I want UConn to keep Hurley around for 6 years or so, because by then, even if they're interested in Pike, hopefully he wouldn't be interested in them.
If you remember, Hobbs begged Hurley to come here. He was going to be his Chris ash of basketball .
This actually is the biggest false theory that keeps coming up. Pike is adding talent that was not B1G caliber. Hurley is not increasing the talent level at UConn, since they historically have very high recruiting classes, each and every year.
This is the AAC, not an elite conference but an improving one. A league that UConn has miles more talent than a good portion of the league, based on recruiting trail and talent.
There's a point and time where "his guys recruited" goes away and you have to initially evaluate what he does with the existing pieces in place, many of which will be with Hurley the next 2 years. It will be Year 5 before he has all of his players that he recruited himself, but in 99% of those instances, the decisions on whether he's done enough are in place by Year 3, not year 5.
Hurley's going to succeed initially by doing something with what's there first.
I am glad we have Pikiell and he is doing a great job here.
But Hurley won 13 games in his first year at Wagner, 8 games in his first year at Rhode Island and now 13 games so far at UConn. He's also recruiting pretty well. He'll get UConn going, just like PIkiell will have it going here. It takes time.
But Hurley won 13 games in his first year at Wagner, 8 games in his first year at Rhode Island and now 13 games so far at UConn. He's also recruiting pretty well. He'll get UConn going, just like PIkiell will have it going here. It takes time.
A guy that works for me says Dan Hurley is next Coach at Penn State. UConn having budget problems on top of what many of you said above about conference problems. As always, I defer to @RussWood on these topics.
Funny how you're ready to rip a guy in his first year at a school that, save for maybe Cincinnati, got screwed the most by realignment.
Can you give him a couple of years? Then, hopefully, we can rip him. Don't care for UConn and have no use for Hurley, but fair is fair.
Hell, the jury is still out on Pike, too. And he's been here a little while.
Can you give him a couple of years? Then, hopefully, we can rip him. Don't care for UConn and have no use for Hurley, but fair is fair.
Hell, the jury is still out on Pike, too. And he's been here a little while.
Hurley is an average coach at best. Gets recognition because of his name.
I read a piece in The Athletic about him that is behind a paywall about him that made him easier to like. One can get a trial one year subscription for $1 per month. The piece detailed how Bobby was basically the Fredo of the family and he almost quit basketball when he played at Seton Hall. That may play into his personality. Pressure is on his brother now to produce a winner.
There may be reasons and they may be on those around him and one can be sympathetic and we don't really know him personally but he is unlikable in many ways to many.
This thread was when they were in the AAC. Someone even said they need to go to the Big East to restore their program. Credit to them for doing it, I thought they never would because it would sacrifice football, and that the BE might not take them. It worked out exactly how they dreamed