Huskies Lightning: UConn Overcomes NJIT 92-15!
UConn has had the luxury of retaining its men’s basketball assistants longer than would normally be the case. Over the last four years Dan Hurley, aided and abetted by Luke Murray and Kimani Young, has been effective at all levels, recruiting, evaluating, motivating and game-planning. Surely, another college would want to get a little of that secret sauce.
But the Huskies long March runs have probably limited the opportunities for other schools, who wanted to move fast to fill head coaching positions, from waiting out Young and Murray. With Young making more than $1. 1 million per year as associate head coach and Murray, hailed for his offensive creativity, north of $800,000.
They have been making too much for a school outside a power conference, more likely to hire a first-time head coach, to match. But the start of the coaching cycle this year feels a little different. There are several jobs open that Murray or Young just seem to fit, schools that might be willing to wait, and offer the right combination of salary and resources to acquire players, though with shorter-termed contracts.
“Maybe (it’s a little more serious),” Hurley said. “For them to get the type of jobs that make financial sense for them, they need to be at a high level of college basketball. When you look at what Tommy Lloyd has done at Arizona, he had been at Gonzaga, understanding what it takes, those are the type of jobs those guys should be in the mix for.
” Among the jobs to open up so far are Arizona State, where Hurley’s brother Bobby is out, Syracuse, Boston College, Georgia Tech, Kansas State, Providence, Cincinnati, Northern Illinois, and St. Bonaventure. Most of these fall into the category of power conference programs that have been struggling in recent years but have tradition and resources.
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