I hate to start this before tip of our first game...but good god, can't we just enjoy the now?RF1 wrote:Given Dan Hurley's fiery sideline behavior and Indiana's past experience with a coach also known for this, I highly doubt Hurley will be the next coach in Bloomington.scine20 wrote:I obviously have no knowledge but just a feeling that Hurley will end up in Indiana. It's a great job with a rich history and he won't have to rebuild.
Dan certainly wants a "blue blood" type job like an Indiana, or at least he had, every coach thinks about that and wants that.
However, he is a different type of person and coach than everyone is used to. His family is important to him. Their well-being is important to him. One son is going to Seton Hall in the fall, another just started high school. EC is important to him. EC from what I can tell doesn't want to leave here as a grad transfer. Money isn't important to him.
You know what's important to him? Coaching and winning. He will go to or stay wherever makes those 2 things easiest. He left Wagner because he won 25 games and couldn't get into the tournament. He is here because he figured that winning that many games will get him in. If we are smart, we will take the bonuses from this NCAA run, however long it goes, and continue to invest it into basketball, to make Dan's life easy. Every flight should be a charter. His pool for assistant coaches should continue to grow. Games should be 85% full. There should be a genuine effort to try and break ground on a basketball only facility.
If this program is supported well and Dan sees that he can win here without having to relocate his family, without having to do the heavy lifting he's had to throughout this rebuilding process, he will weigh all of that and if he believes that he can make us into the "Gonzaga of the East" as he's said in the past, he will stay.
A power in the A10 is much easier to maintain and go to NCAA's than trying to catch up to the elites in a power 5 conference. Ignoring their now distant history of national championships, they are not the "elite" of the B1G.
Look at Shaka...was the hottest name in coaching, a god, perennial conference champ and NCAA 2nd weekend regular. Had everything he wanted at VCU. Total control. You think he loves it in Texas getting bounced in the first round to UNI and then having an 11 win season? Dan wants to run shit and create a dynasty. I don't think people understand how much he hates losing.
Dan just wants to win. He doesn't want another losing season. He wants to be at the top of a legitimate conference and coach in the NCAA's. Much easier to keep a good thing going here than build a good thing again.
As for Indiana, despite that history, there is a huge dissent between the fans and administration now from everything the guys at Assembly Call have been writing. Bob Knight famously has hated the administration from his time, and maybe those issues are a problem for any potential suitor?
If we make it to next weekend Dan's name will pop up very high on a lot of big program's lists. Unless it is a retirement with a program in great shape so that there's no rebuilding, and that program is very close to north Jersey, he will want to keep winning here. Unless we go Ron Petro in this bitch and mess that up (Thorr won't).