If true, Wow! At the very least it will end up being a huge financial burden on UConn to keep him.
Hurley offer rumor
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All levels of basketball....how about all levels of all sports.....holy moly...
From November 2023.
https://www.sportico.com/feature/highest-paid-coaches-american-sports-1234747983/
From November 2023.
https://www.sportico.com/feature/highest-paid-coaches-american-sports-1234747983/
If the rumors about this contract are true then this is Mitch walking in to his lunch date with Donovan an hour ago.
I just hope he doesn't have a mother in law that makes him turn it down.
Just spend a few bucks on a bucket to barf in, and i would be good to go.
That's the side benefit here.. we're going to make Uconn really pinch their budget to keep him. They are not a school that really can afford to be paying that. The least we can do is make it so Uconn will struggle to pay him every year.. and the second he has a 1st weekend exit again, it's REALLY going to sting.
There’s three coaches in the NBA that would make more. Bill Self would be second in the college ranks, 3 million a year behind our guy.
If Hurley turns that down he needs to either
A. Be institutionalized
B. Kick Andrea’s *** to the curb and use the money to rent high-class hookers!
A. Be institutionalized
B. Kick Andrea’s *** to the curb and use the money to rent high-class hookers!
If it comes down to a bidding war, UConn has no shot. Their athletic department is not on great financial footing.
My brother in law had lunch last season after Hurley’s first title and point blank told me Hurley would take the UK job if offered. He just texted my wife an hour ago saying Hurley will be the next KY Coach. I don’t know if he has talked to Hurley recently or just guessing.
They had lunch last season after Title 1 and Hurley told him he would take the KY job then if offered
Hurley made 5 million last year, got a bonus for winning the title which took it to $6.5. Last time he got a raise (after the 1st title), they had to go before the Conn. government to get it approved. $7.5-10 base salary would NOT get approved. Barely got $5 million, you think they double it ? UCONN athletic budget is operating in the red as we speak, no way it can afford more. The Big East just doesn't have the football $$ to offer those kind of contracts.
I swing by Mitch’s office this morning and gave him one of those testosterone deodorant sticks before he started his day.
It’s paid dividends
It’s paid dividends
There better be a buyout clause. I just don’t want another Coach getting fat and happy again when he gets paid.
8 years is a long damn time for UK fans
4th actually Pop, Kerr, somehow Monty at Detroit are only ones to beat it I think .
Jesus took the wheel and saved us.
Kind of makes you want to throw up that stoops is on that list when we could get the same results for 2-3 million a gear
This kind of offer is why being a blue blood still matters. Blue bloods just simply care more. We will do whatever is necessary to make sure we remain elite. We'll pay more for coaches. We'll pay more for facilities. And we'll cough up more $$$ for NIL.
Hurley's got friends? Now that is just too hard to believe
True. But we were already paying 10 to a guy that def wasn’t winning one in the next 8
I would bet after 2 back to back titles.. Uconn is going to at least get him a few more million, some of it in incentives.. I think it's going to come down to 12.5 million at UK, as opposed to 8-9 mil at Uconn. And that could be enough for him to stay.
Agree. He has no time for friends bc his only friend is basketball and his desire to drink from his enemies skulls
Who really cares as long as it “appears” that he cares about winning the game thats in front of him…
And not waiting until March
Maybe Hurley wasn't being serious at lunch when he said he would take the UK job. Also winning a second title could change things. Plus if you friend hasn't talked to Hurley since he could just be assuming. Also Hurley could be leaking false info that he's going to UK to try to get a raise from UConn.
The big difference is that in New England, the only people that care about college sports are degenerate gamblers. There are too many professional franchises there. His ego wants to be on a bigger stage. High School state championship have a bigger turn out when returning home than they did after a National Championship. He wants to be somewhere that his legacy actually means something to people other than staff and current students.
Timing is way off here. Doesn't UConn have their celebration event this Sat? No way he does anything before or immediately after this, right?
I tend to agree, but a Hurley/Kentucky combo could legitimately make the rest of college basketball fill its collective pants.
Hurley is a smug turd who can back up his arrogance. There's no doubt Kentucky is the greatest program/stage in college basketball and Hurley is currently college's best coach.
If UK was offering 12.5 million per year and they wanted to keep him I think they would find a way to get him a small rise. Probably not super close to 10 million but maybe 7.5 or 8 million.
All true I’m just giving BBN my little tidbit of info I have. Hope we land Hurley though
