Despite Kentucky making a lucrative offer to the coaching face of college basketball at the moment, Dan Hurley is staying in Storrs, Connecticut, and has his mind set on pursuing a national championship three-peat, sources told FOX Sports on Thursday afternoon.
With Kentucky athletic director Mitch Barnhart attempting to make a splash after John Calipari left for Arkansas earlier this week, the natural name to come up in the candidate pool was Hurley, who powered the Huskies to back-to-back national titles, becoming the first program to accomplish that feat since Billy Donovan’s Florida Gators in 2006 and ‘07.
Ironically enough, Donovan, a former Kentucky assistant under Rick Pitino back in the 90s, is being looked at for the vacancy as well.
But as for Hurley – the Naismith Coach of the Year who is 68-11 in the last two seasons and just led Connecticut to one of the most dominant seasons in men’s college basketball history – he’s not messing with happy. UConn athletic director Dave Benedict and his team will increase their financial commitments to Hurley and his staff, and program enhancements will accompany that as well, sources told FOX Sports.