SVP’s One Huge Thing: Dan Hurley returns to UConn

Scott Van Pelt, Host, SportsCenter with SVPJun 11, 2024,

05:06 PM ET Close Scott Van Pelt joined ESPN in Spring 2001 as the network’s lead expert golf reporter. He has since become a SportsCenter anchor, mostly hosting the 11 p.m. ET edition while staying the lead reporter and host of the network’s protection of golf’s grand slam occasions. In April 2008 he was named co-host of ESPN Radio’s Tirico & Van Pelt weekday show (2-4 p.m. ET on weekdays). A native of Brookville, Md., Van Pelt graduated from the University of Maryland with a bachelor’s degree in radio/television and film.Any college coach understands the

guideline when it concerns recruiting. If you’ve got that 5-star on school, you’ve got to get the commit before they leave. It’s the Glengarry Glen Ross rule of “ABC “– Always Be Closing. That’s the rule. You MIGHT get them if they go home to mull it over, however the chances decrease massively.When UConn Huskies coach Dan Hurley left LA without concurring

to be the Los Angeles Lakers ‘next head coach, it was informing. Monday, he informed the world he was going to run it back in Storrs and attempt to make it a threepeat.Editor’s Picks 2 Related I pointed out the

Billy Donovan parallels on Sunday. He won a couple titles in a row in Gainesville and actually ACCEPTED the Orlando Magic task. Then he believed much better of it and went back to Florida. He ‘d eventually answer the siren song of the NBA, and Hurley most likely will someday, too. He’s stated as much. However not now.Whatever happens from here, what Hurley has carried out in the previous two

years to permanently modify his place in the sport is remarkable. This is a man who has actually invested most of his basketball life in the shadow of his daddy and sibling. Now, he’s all matured– and they take a back seat to him.Sound like embellishment? Inform me something– how many coaches in the exact same offseason got to tell Kentucky, with the bluest blood in college basketball and the Lakers, NBA royalty, thanks for the interest– sincerely– however I’m all set. Hurley was able to pass on both those gigs in two months. If you told me that would occur when he was raving on the sidelines at Rhode Island, I ‘d have heckled you unmercifully.Here we are. There he is– in Storrs. Still. Palm trees thin on the ground there, but there are a ton of prizes.

All of them earned in the last quarter century and he wants more. There.I admire high achievers who develop convenience in the area they live who aren’t driven to be better than happy. Only he

understands how comfortable … just he knows how tough it was to state no. It’ll be referenced from this point forward, what Hurley selected not to do. I wager he pours himself into what he decided to keep doing– be the coach at UConn and prepare maniacally to make sure the program goes on.