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UConn Boss Dan Hurley was THIS CLOSE to retiring this summer

Eye On College Basketball

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🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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UConn Head Coach Dan Hurley sits down with Matt Norlander ahead of the season to talk retirement and what he did to be a better leader this season. 00:22 - The Book 04:07 - Nearly retiring 09:00 - What to expect this year To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Yukon coach Dan Hurley.

0:17.1

I had heard, I feel like, have you done any interviews about this book yet?

0:20.7

Is this your first? Have you talked about this book at all in the past couple of weeks? It never stops. I never, well, it literally, you can do a lot with that title, never stopped. Did you come up with the title? I was, we were, I actually fought with the publishers. By the way, never stop. On sale, literally, wherever books are sold on this

0:37.5

planet. Go ahead. I wanted, it was two, I wanted everything or never stopped, because I do think

0:44.4

that with the book, what I tried to do was while still being like pretty actively in the sports

0:50.1

world doing something that's pretty honest and open while you're still active as opposed

0:56.3

to a lot you get a lot more open and honesty when people's careers are over right so for me

1:02.7

you're in the midst of it I'm in the midst of it and I thought uh you know books have impacted me a lot

1:06.8

and I thought that maybe you know my story may story may help people, maybe inspiring, maybe motivating.

1:13.4

It's been a heck of a journey.

1:15.6

We don't have enough time to get into everything that I want to get to on this, but I will just

1:19.3

a couple things on the book, which I haven't read yet, by the way.

1:23.2

Apparently someone on your team sent me a copy, but I haven't received you yet, but I'm looking forward to reading it.

1:29.2

The fact that you wrote this book now and you did a book tour in the midst of the preseason, I mean, that that astounds me.

1:40.0

I guess it's the best time to do it leading into a season because the only other time would be March,

1:44.4

which you cannot do.

1:45.5

But like how have you handled that?

1:47.1

Doing like book promotion and trying to ready for a season?

1:50.1

Like it just runs.

1:51.2

It runs counter to how I would think you would want to do it.

1:53.5

Yeah.

1:53.8

Well, I mean, it was a 36 hour window that we had between literally practice ending. and then I had about a 36 hour window

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