Reacting to Danny Hurley Turning Down Lakers
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 10 June 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Mike and Rico spend a segment reacting to the breaking news that head coach Danny Hurley has turned down a massive offer from the Lakers to return to UConn.
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| 0:00.0 | All right. |
| 0:02.0 | Let's mix in the breaking news here for one segment and look I mean obviously I'm biased because I hate the Los Angeles Lakers. |
| 0:10.0 | I know many of you here do as well for different reasons. |
| 0:14.0 | Danny Hurley turning the Lakers down and it's like this big to do today. |
| 0:20.0 | Oh my God, how embarrassing. |
| 0:24.0 | Oh, what does he think? It's like, here's an idea. |
| 0:28.0 | Didn't we just live with what happens when you blindly take a job and the only reason you take |
| 0:34.9 | its money. We're living it with Monty Williams. The reality is Dan Hurley, A, he's going |
| 0:42.0 | to be the highest paid coach college basketball. He's going to be the highest paid |
| 0:42.8 | college basketball. |
| 0:43.6 | He's going to be getting paid over $8 million a year. |
| 0:46.4 | What's the difference between $8 million in Stours, Connecticut, |
| 0:48.6 | and $12 million in Los Angeles? |
| 0:50.6 | And the answer is zero. |
| 0:52.4 | It's the same money when you factor in taxes and the complete |
| 0:55.2 | pain in the ass that living in Los Angeles is. But the reality is is this. I mean |
| 1:00.4 | Regal you know this. I mean Danny Hurley it's been a long road to get here. |
| 1:03.4 | You're a long way from coaching Staten Island University Wagner just a few short years ago. |
| 1:09.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:10.2 | It's hard. He's built a juggernaut. I do believe he's bringing back the best team in America again. |
| 1:15.8 | Now I agree with you a three-pete is almost like it's unthinkable. But I actually never really thought he would go because I never could wrap my mind around how awful a fit it was |
| 1:29.6 | Librons a hundred you might have him for one year. |
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