Danny's track record or his fathers with RU has absolutely ZERO to do with him succeeding here as HC but keep being stubborn. OK? Do you understand?
You're the one who brought up the hurleys as no friends of Rutgers not me.
You say we were a laughing stock and now have recruited some good players. we are still a laughing stock. We have some pieces. but Please explain then back to back no show losses and 21 of 25 losses? 60-point losses in year 1. 15 straight in 2015. No rebounding drills quote after being embarrassed against seton hall
Hurley blows Eddie away by just teaching some defense and rebounding lol and not betting blown out. His team at the very least would have an identity because Rhode Island has one.
You just told me Eddie wasn't the right hire. Danny was considered. Give me guy who has won at the college level this century.
But Hey don't ask me. Ask recruiting writers and other college assistants about who's the better hc at college level or who they'd rather face in elimination game (Eddie's team!)
Hurley would have had us better than 260 in Ken Pom or a 34 point loss to GW. Tom Penders of all people made a joke about Rutgers today. A sad one.
And If you don't See that or can admit danny would have been better or is more equipped to build rutgers then start asking around.
Is Danny Hurley the only choice moving forward? Of course not. It's a two-way street anyway. Plenty of coaching upgrades out there to focus on. It is a unique job, however, and one Eddie never had a chance to succeed.
If Rhode Island whooped us by 30 which would probably happen would you give Danny credit? He doesn't lose to Seton Hall and GW by 30+ and he doesn't have facilities and he doesn't make as Much as Willard or Jordan
Hard to figure out where to start as there is so much wrong with this post.
To begin, of course their track record with RU has to do with whether Hurley would succeed here as head coach. As does Hurley's track record at Wagner (gone after two years) and URI (looking to get out after one). As does Hurley's record for intemperate behaviour. His record is all we have to go by, and it isn't all that attractive.
I brought up the Hurleys' being no friends of Rutgers in response to other posters. You are the one who said that Rosario was a "Bob Hurley recruit" and then immediately argued that Bob Hurley had no influence on his kids. I merely pointed out your lack of consistency. It hasn't changed.
As I said, I had doubts about the Jordan hire. But it was made to clean up a program with the worst reputation in college basketball, and he has done a good job of that. He's not the coach for the future, but he really never was. He was the transition. The hope was that he would clean the program up, get some good recruits, and put out a decent product until the B1G money started coming in, and we could upgrade to a high quality coach. Apparently we tried to get Danny Hurley to do that with help from his father. You know, make a contribution to the home state. But they wanted the sun and the moon. Listen, I don't blame them for looking out for themselves; I simply don't want any part of them at Rutgers.
Now Eddie simply is not getting the job done on the floor. So, the question is what do we do now? Many posters are clamouring for firing Eddie and hiring Hurley, the sooner the better. I'm saying that that would be as foolish as it would have been three years ago.
We should not fire EJ until we have the resources to make a serious upgrade in the program. If we move quickly or on the cheap, we will simply lock ourselves into the next unsuccessful hire.
If we do fire EJ, do we hire Hurley? Comparing Hurley to EJ is not really the question. If you want to compare Hurley to somebody, it should be who else we might get. And I would argue that we can do a lot better than Danny Hurley, who, if he were successful at RU, would be out the door as soon as he sniffed an upgrade. It's what he's done at Wagner and tried to do at URI. If he were all that attractive as an option, he wouldn't be there.
