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LOL, this argument is almost as sad as the kindergarten-level insult in the thread title. UConn is 15-0 and doesn't care what a few jealous Rutgers fans think about them. We have a good team, no doubt, but are currently nowhere near the level of the University of Connecticut Huskies.
“Nowhere near the level” they are #2 in Sagarin and we are #15. This seems to be a factually incorrect opinion you have, and would love to see UConn at the RAC tomorrow instead of Coppin State and you are telling me you’d bet the farm on UConn??
 
As a SHU fan, I think that Pike is just as good a coach as D. Hurley, if not a better coach. Danny just has the good fortune of boosters paying NIL monies before it was "legal", which continues now that it is accepted protocol.
A lot of credit goes to the boosters and the Big East for allowing them back in.

Agreed----those Wagner and Rhode Island boosters are legendary for their big payouts to hoop players. :):)
 
Dan Hurley quit coaching basketball in 2001, stating, "things weren’t going right at Rutgers."

He dropped down to the high school level, promptly turning St. Benedict's in Newark into a national powerhouse. Then, Dan returned to the college level at Wagner. Dan inherited a 5-26 team, going 13-17 in year one and 25-6 team.

Dan jumped to Rhode Island, not even the biggest basketball program in a tiny state. At Rhode Island, Dan got a 7-24 team and in his final two years there, went 25-10 and 26-8, winning NCAA games in both years. In fact, in a 365 day period, Dan won more NCAA games at Rhode Island than Steve Pikiell has won in 17 years as a Division I head coach.

At Connecticut, Dan inherited not only a losing team (14-18) but a program on probation. As of tonight, Dan-led UConn is 14-0.

To be sure, I am a big Steve Pikiell fan. He runs a super program. Everything is going right. Progression on the court, super program culture, great atmosphere in the RAC. And Steve snagged a 4* recruit from Connecticut to headline the 2023 class. Even got me to come out for a game at the RAC for the first time in years - and I travelled from out of state during a bomb cyclone.

But one cannot keep from wondering what could've been if Dan had stuck around Rutgers in 2001.
But in fairness you conveniently ignore two horrendous efforts in two first round blow out losses of last two NCAAs by Danny Hurley coached UConn? New Mexico State really?
 
I haven't seen them play, and looking at their schedule nothing really jumps out at me. And I have no handle on how good the Big East is this year. So they're 13-0, are they as good as their record?

Not as good as Xavier, who BTW lost at home to Indiana. 😉
 
I'll say this, Pike is a far better representative for a university -- his demeanor,his support of other programs and his outward attestation of how he respects RU is not what you get from Hurley who seems to me is just an aggresive bball coach who will wear thin quickly if he starts to lose
 
I'll say this, Pike is a far better representative for a university -- his demeanor,his support of other programs and his outward attestation of how he respects RU is not what you get from Hurley who seems to me is just an aggresive bball coach who will wear thin quickly if he starts to lose
Yup, Hurley says (paraphrasing) that he wishes he could act like a football coach.
He wants to act like a High School coach from the 80's
I don't understand why kids want to play for him, maybe it's Kimani Young who really gets the recruits?
We'll see as I think Kimani will be a head coach elsewhere in a year or two.
 
UConn doesn’t pass the eye test for me. I know they’ve won a lot of games and not close. But just the way they move around and the energy on the team except in certain situations … could see them out in the first round if they fall to a 3 or 4 seed (which they might not since the Big East is so weak)
Told you all
 
Dude what are you talking about? He asked for too much? He wanted a 7 year deal at $2M-ish. The next year he got $2.75M for 6 years. He was worthy of the deal - clearly.


And I didn’t say “Hobbs didn’t get it done”. I said Hobbs didn’t like the deal. To which you agree with! I didn’t say anyone else as upset he didn’t do the deal.

I honestly have no idea what you’re doing in this conversation other than to say yeah sojo you’re right Hobbs didn’t want to do the deal - he asked for more money and years than Hobbs wanted to give him.

The only thing wrong is your exaggeration that he tried to bend RU over with a ridiculous ask. He proved in the market he was worth what asked plus some and it worked out for another team. There is nothing wrong with any of this lol
I don't remember that way at all. I remember that at the last minute, he really didn't want to come to Rutgers. Had nothing, or at least little, to do with money. It was based on a lack of respect for the hierarchy and that he didn't believe he could be successful.

That's what I remember from the situation. They may have brought up money, but a lack of confidence of success was the final factor.

But I may be wrong. . .
 
I don't remember that way at all. I remember that at the last minute, he really didn't want to come to Rutgers. Had nothing, or at least little, to do with money. It was based on a lack of respect for the hierarchy and that he didn't believe he could be successful.

That's what I remember from the situation. They may have brought up money, but a lack of confidence of success was the final factor.

But I may be wrong. . .
The practice facility wasn’t real at that point so certainly he might’ve thought he could find a better situation. Little did he know a year-ish later Rutgers would announce a practice facility project second-to-none in the big ten/north east.
 
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Don't bother: that troll's been banned.
Yes, but what about his other 100,000 accounts?

This guy shows up and immediately starts either replying to @AreYouNUTS posts or liking any post that disagrees with an @AreYouNUTS posts. It's one of the more strangely dedicated, bizarre, and completely non-subtle trolling campaigns I've ever seen lol.
 
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