Danny Hurley
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He actually mentioned his assistant coach game planned to DEFEND the other four players. IMO Fran should spend the first 4 weeks of preseason practice 60% offense & 40% defense. Once the season begins the offense shouldn't need as much time & should be 80% defensive game planning & 20% offensive sets. As Charles Barkley once said "Any knucklehead can score".
If Fran doesn't have an assistant who focus on defense, he needs to get one, and that assistant should be a pivotal part of practice and game planning.
That dumba** proclaimed UConn is the bluest of blue bloods. Yes UConn is the best program NOW just like Villanova was a few years ago. But…
Kansas and Kentucky are the winningest programs in all of basketball history
UConn has like 7 final fours. Duke, UNC, UK and KU have like 15+
Hell the founder of the damn game was at Kansas and Kansas has something like 30+ straight NCAA appearances
Kansas and Kentucky are the winningest programs in all of basketball history
UConn has like 7 final fours. Duke, UNC, UK and KU have like 15+
Hell the founder of the damn game was at Kansas and Kansas has something like 30+ straight NCAA appearances
Playing the devil's advocate here. It wasn't all THAT long ago people were saying that about Duke when they started winning championships in the 90s, and there are some octogenarian Kentucky, Kansas and UNC fans that don't consider UCLA a true blueblood (whose 18 FF appearances are good for second-most, but 13 of those appearances were from 1962 through 1976 - none of which were before 1962, and average a single FF appearance a decade since 1976. Not all that impressive).
UConn is a bit of a different beast, because the Mt. Rushmore of college hoops programs (Duke, Kansas, Kentucky, and UNC) have a whopping 70 FF appearances amongst them, but just 23 championships - basically 1 out of 3 times one of those schools makes the FF, they win the whole thing. UConn has 6 championships in 7 FF appearances, which basically means UConn has been practically a lock to win it all once they get that far in the NCAA Tournament. It's entirely possible that those percentages will catch up with them someday, but it's also entirely possible that UConn will win is 7th championship before UNC. There's also a realistic chance it'll win its 9th before Kentucky does, and for the 45 and younger crowd, it's not out of the question that UConn will overtake UCLA as having the most NCAA Division 1 hoops championships within our lifetime.
NIL is changing the college basketball landscape, and now we're seeing kids that would have been a shoo-in to go to one of the Big Four (or a school just under those, like Arizona, Louisville, IU, etc), committing to and elevating the profile of schools with far less hoops tradition, such as ISU, Alabama, and Baylor (who actually won it once).
Good for KU. UConn has 6 national championships. More than KU. A school in the Northeast that 25 years ago was nothing. You should actually be celebrating them. It gives hope to the Hawks.
Cam Spencer was very good at RU last year. He was a key to their turnaround.
He led them in scoring while shooting 44% from 3, 90% ft, 4 rb , 3 asst 2 steals.
RU was bitterly disappointed when he transferred late last spring.
Hurley knew he was going after a very good addition in Spencer and paid well for him.
UConn is kind of a strange case if they are a true Blue Blood. Most BBs typically dominate their respective conferences as well as having lots of success in March. However UConn, prior to this season, had not won their conference regular season championship since 2006. Villanova has pretty much been the dominant program in the BE since then while also having won 2 NCs in that time frame.
Maybe we should give them a special designation such as...idk...a Turqoise Blood? Not quite True Blue yet.
A lot more money in the state of Conn than Iowa. Until NIL has some guardrails (unlikely) or Iowa figures NIL out (also apparently unlikely), it is going to be very difficult for Iowa men's BB to do more than pretty good. Caitlin really opened the door for Bluder to some top recruits, but what does Fran have, especially with the number of Black players who have transferred out.
What was our excuse before NIl? UConn athletics has nowhere near the money Iowa has. Nowhere near. We always blame lack of NIL for everything. UConn got Newton from East Carolina. How did Drake continue to get good players from the portal? They have shit for NIL. There are players out there.
I wonder if his son is a tool as well...Me to Dan Hurley when he speaks:
Your above statement still holds true to present day! (on full display for all to see behind the TBS Post Game show desk)
I had forgotten they had branched off to the ACC for a few years - nice to see we spanked them by 19 back then! 👍
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UConn is obviously the exception to the rule, but most of us would not be that disappointed in Iowa men's BB if they just performed in the post season, instead of peeing down their leg every year. Iowa fans almost worship Lute, but he had some very mixed results, which the final four run basically eliminated. NIL is going to make that kind of success even more difficult for Iowa, at least as things stand today.
We’ll see. UConn was not full of big NIL money and players. Not every school is going to dish out a million bucks for 1 player. It honestly makes no sense. Do you need money? Certainly. There’s a lot of really good players in the portal from mid majors that aren’t commanding that kind of money. We need to focus on the guys we can get that want to play at Iowa. There’s going to be 2000 players in the portal or some crazy number. There’s probably 20 -25 teams with really deep pockets. That leaves a lot of good players.
Actually this interview posted in the NY Post a couple days ago sheds a little light on UConn's basketball success:
(also mentioned here: Back-to-back March Madness champ Dan Hurley: "We spend a lot of time focusing on the parents" in recruiting )
"The 2023 team lost three players to the NBA, then got better. Even more rare, Hurley has built UConn without relying on super-blue-chip recruits or the portal. The team that tore through the 2024 NCAA Tournament had only three transfers on its roster.
He might be a good NBA coach but we won't find out if that's true or not with the Lakers specifically. They're a dumpster fire in my opinion and they need LeBron to retire or leave. The mere fact any coach would legitimately have to play Bronny to appease his dad is ludacris. It's going to happen though. I personally doubt Bronny would even start at Iowa, yet, he will get playing time in the NBA...please. LeBron has that franchise hamstrung.
It’s time for LeBron to retire. His better days are in the rear view mirror and his name just simply overwhelms any teams franchise.
He made third team All NBA this season. No doubt he has too much weight in decision making but to say he needs to retire is ridiculous. He’s still a top 15 player in the league.
As for Hurley, that rah rah shit won’t work in the Association. If he can draw up half court sets he’ll be fine but seeing as college bball doesn’t run half court sets too often I have my doubts. Stevens is the only recent college guy that made it work. Donovan maybe. But Pitino, Calipari & Hoiberg all went back to college quickly.
My point is that LeBron, dispite his production on the court is a liability to the team. What’s the economic term….”diminished returns”? This is a problem for the truly great ones.. not for the 95% of the League. In my opinion, LeBron has outlived his productive years as a contributing player in a “team” effort.
Good question. He's a bit too much of a hard ass for some NBA guys but you never know. He may have a way of winning his guys over. Definitely one hell of a basketball coach.
And they all came back to college considerably more wealthy than when they left.
From a financial perspective this is a no lose situation for Hurley. He has all the leverage. Negotiate a big payday, including large buyout clause. If the NBA gig is a flop he goes back to a college job.
Says who? He's doing fine ($32M over the next 5 years) and he'll have other opportunities if he wants them. LA isn't for everybody. Neither is trying to "coach" LeBron.
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$70M.... I'd coach Rosanne Barr in Bismark, ND for $60M.
Future opportunities are never guaranteed. Make hay while the sun shines, fellas.
At least we don't have to worry about losing Fran to UConn now.
I dunno. If you offered me $32M for 4 years to do what I loved, where I wanted to live without someone making my job miserable and I got to run things (and an almost certain extension or renewal)... I might take it over $70M for 5 years, lots of pressure, uprooting my family and dealing with the biggest pain in the ass in professional sport... potentially a career killer.
Being happy is worth a lot...especially when you're well over the "I'm good for life" line financially.
(the Rosanne Barr in Bismarck is one hell of a visual!) The question is...would you sleep with her?
