UConn’s Dan Hurley is the perfect sports heel. So Kentucky job would be a perfect fit.

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GLENDALE, Ariz. — Dan Hurley is a perfect college basketball villain; as cocky as he is good, as inevitable as he is hot-headed.

On Monday night, Hurley gesticulated and screamed and bullied his way to a second straight national title, his UConn Huskies once again rolling through an NCAA Tournament without much of a challenge — including from Purdue, the supposed second-best team in the country, which could barely put up a fight in a 75-60 loss.

“For the last 25 years or 30 years, UConn’s been running college basketball,” Hurley said, hat turned backwards, celebrating as the confetti fell on the Huskies for the sixth time in the last 26 years.

Hurley, the son of legendary but flammable high school coach Bob Hurley Sr., is a throwback to the days when college basketball coaches didn’t seem so corporate, publicly beefed with each other and told you exactly how good they thought they were. And Hurley thinks – no, he knows – that he’s really, really good.

“I’m still just a worse version of (my dad),” Hurley said before pausing. “A little bit worse. Getting better and I’m coming for him.”

He’s the perfect sports heel. And he belongs at the perfect heel program. After coaching the best team he’ll ever have, completing a two-year run that we may never see again in our lifetimes, Hurley’s best move would be trading his gear for a lighter shade of blue.

Hurley shouldn’t just go to Kentucky, he should run to the challenge of restoring the dominance, the pride and, yes, the arrogance of America’s most extravagant program, just as he rescued UConn from its short period of disrepair.

Connecticut coach Dan Hurley celebrates after cutting down the net Monday after his Huskies won their second straight national title.

“I don’t think that’s a concern,” Hurley said, laughing as I asked if he planned on entertaining any other jobs — including the one that will officially open on Wednesday, when John Calipari officially signs his new contract at Arkansas….

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Author : The Courier Journal

Publish date : 2024-04-09 16:47:01

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