Dan Hurley takes 20mil less with Uconn, after passing on LA

[Hey Yo]

6yr 50mil

missed a chance of a lifetime... he'll end up regretting it.

[Real Men Wear Green]

He didn't make the decision based on money. UConn isn't even a rich college program (their football is small time) of course the Lakers are going to pay more. He would have cashed in but he's getting fired in 1 to 3 years. He may leave UConn but his family is comfortable and with all he's done, the talent that he recruits and the level of success they will keep up even when not winning championships they will never fire him and always give him the utmost respect.

[Hey Yo]

Guaranteeing he's getting fired 1-3yrs is pure speculation on your part.

[GOBB]

Guaranteeing he's getting fired 1-3yrs is pure speculation on your part.

The odds aren’t in his favor. Name the last coach who was there longer than 3 seasons. LA job isn’t one that has job security. Heck you probably can say that with most coaching jobs in the NBA. Not too many last more than 3 seasons. And LA the expectations are extremely high.

[Real Men Wear Green]

Guaranteeing he's getting fired 1-3yrs is pure speculation on your part.

Darvin Ham, frank Vogel, Luke Walton, Byron Scott, Mike D'Antoni, Bernie Bickerstaff, Mike Brown. That's the complete list of Lakers coaches since Phil Jackson. Which of them lasted more than three years? I didn't choose that number at random. That consistent history is enough justification by itself. And then on top of that you have a franchise with a championship standard whose leader is going to be 40 at the start of next playoffs. The dynamics in LA are strange. You have a team where they use a draft pick on their star player's son in spite of him having a college career the likes of which has never gotten a player drafted before. And then he is handed a guaranteed contract for 4 years, something s player in his draft position normally does not get. On the flip side the last two men to hold the job were treated like they were worthless. Frank Vogel was fired just two seasons after he led them to a championship. The two star players got hurt and he was held accountable for it. What we see there really is a franchise that always holds the coach responsible for failure. Nothing less than the best is acceptable with James and Davis and the history of LA. Pair that standard of excellence with rosters of average talent and star players that haven't stayed healthy and the failure for which coaches have been held accountable is a given.

[RRR3]

Darvin Ham, frank Vogel, Luke Walton, Byron Scott, Mike D'Antoni, Bernie Bickerstaff, Mike Brown. That's the complete list of Lakers coaches since Phil Jackson. Which of them lasted more than three years? I didn't choose that number at random. That consistent history is enough justification by itself. And then on top of that you have a franchise with a championship standard whose leader is going to be 40 at the start of next playoffs. The dynamics in LA are strange. You have a team where they use a draft pick on their star player's son in spite of him having a college career the likes of which has never gotten a player drafted before. And then he is handed a guaranteed contract for 4 years, something s player in his draft position normally does not get. On the flip side the last two men to hold the job were treated like they were worthless. Frank Vogel was fired just two seasons after he led them to a championship. The two star players got hurt and he was held accountable for it. What we see there really is a franchise that always holds the coach responsible for failure. Nothing less than the best is acceptable with James and Davis and the history of LA. Pair that standard of excellence with rosters of average talent and star players that haven't stayed healthy and the failure for which coaches have been held accountable is a given.
Not true. Peyton Watson, Harry Giles and Skal Labissierre all didn't do much of anything in college and were drafted first round. Watson legit had worse stats than Bronny. Granted, none of them were 6'1. I don't think Bronny would be a weird pick with his stats if he was the size of his dad, it's not the stats so much as the stats combined with the fact that he's 6'1. Guys with college stats like him DO get drafted but they are generally physically imposing and projected to grow into their bodies so to speak.

[John8204]

The job for college coaches is clearly GM not coach...I don't understand why any college coach would jump to the pros. The Celtics had the right idea 60 years ago with player coaches

[warriorfan]

he paid 20 mil to not have to deal with LeDiva

let that sink in :lol

[ShawkFactory]

Why would he regret it? You have an extremely high stress and highly scrutinized job that would require moving your family across the country.

Or you can stay where you are and coach a storied program to become one of the great college basketball dynasties of this era.

Option 2 is clearly better IMO.

[ILLsmak]

He wanted a dum offer from the Lakers and they didn't give him one, so he stayed.

-Smak

[Jasper]

he knew he could never coach Leweak

[Patrick Chewing]

Who wants to deal with Lebron and the politics of drafting his son?? Dan made the right decision. Can you imagine the beef Lebron would have with Hurley if Hurley never plays his son?

Redick is just a Lebron puppet that will play Brownie 25 mins a night to force feed us Lebron and his son playing together.

[beasted]

Are we sure that with state incomes taxes, sales tax, and cost of living that that $20M difference doesn’t fall to like $8M?

Then you factor in security for his family because of the nutjob Lakers fans and other expenditures and it's more of less the same.

[Soundwave]

Lakers are a gong show situation, not surprised he wouldn't want to go there even for $20 million more.