Rhode Island head coach Dan Hurley has been named the new men’s basketball coach at UConn, the school announced Thursday.
Hurley received a six-year deal, ESPN reports.
Hurley, 45, was Pitt’s top target in their coaching search but reality is Hurley was never coming to Pitt and the Panthers offer of at least $3.3 million per season didn’t change anything other than making UConn come up on their initial offer which is said to have been around $2.5 million per season.
Where Pitt goes from here remains to be seen but the school has known for days that getting Hurley was a hail mary.
Former Ohio State coach Thad Matta has long been a favorite of Heather Lyke but Pitt officials have had trouble getting Matta to consider the job. Matta turned down an offer from Georgia last week who then went on to hire Tom Crean, another coaching candidate on Pitt’s initial list To read this insider news, subscribe to get “Inside Access”!
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Fold the program. Shoulda kept Stallings for another year and see if adding Bryce Golden would help the inside game. Nope, now Pitt has 0 players, 0 recruits and who knows what as a coach. Only a Miller or Pitino could turn this program around in 2 years. They won’t get either, so they’ll have some young low level or P5 assistsnt coaching who is going to need 3-5 years to rebuild this dumpster fire. Nobody is going to go to games next year, so the AD will be paying a $9milliom buyout + $2-3 million in salary for next… Read more »
Eat shit Pitt
I think it maybe Oats. Pitino is a pipe dream. He may need to go to a small school to reinvent himself. He still has that scandal stench on him.
So they will talk to Miller with all his baggage and underachieving but they won’t look at Pitino? Pitino would come with instant national Buzz, big time recruiting along with being highly motivated to cement his legacy. He’d come relatively cheap, maybe 3.5 per year, with limited options.