April 6, 2024 • 28 mins
Dan is focused on the NCAA Tournaments, both Men's and Women's, and he talks to a few participants who managed to make their way to the Final Four, including Iowa Women's HC Lisa Bluder, North Carolina State sensation DJ Burns Jr., and UConn Men's HC Dan Hurley.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
She's the head coach women's head basketball coach at IOWA.
Lisa Blueter in her twenty four season, is the Hawkeyes
head coach. Kind enough to join us coach, how much
sleep last night? Not a lot?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
And that's okay with me.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The voice sounds like you were coaching. That's a coach's
voice right there.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
It's a coach's voice in April for sure, a little gravelly,
but that's okay. It's working and that's all it matters.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
What did you learn personally from the loss last year
in the title game to LSU.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
You know, I really learned. What I learned the most
about being in the final four last year and being
in that game was the amount of this is going
to sound like the amount of rest that you need.
It's just like it's so tiring going through this process
in the Sweet sixteen to the Elite eight to the
Final four. It's extremely exhausting. And just making sure that
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we spend less time on x's and o's and more
time on recovery and rest.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Well, that's what I marvel at that you see these scores,
you know, it's Kobe. It's allan iverson every night. They
have to go out there and have more energy than
the opposition. And that's another thing that amazes me about Caitlin.
She doesn't come out of the game and you're playing
at a really fast pace. How do you kind of
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coach her so she's not her own worst enemy.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Well, you know, we play like that all the time.
And you know, it's not like we just started playing
like that now, We've been playing like that for years
and that's her style. She loves it. She's comfortable with it.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Believe me.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
She never wants to come out of a game. If
I try to take her out of a game, it
doesn't go down so well. So she wants to be
on that court.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Explain your tempo and how do you get to the
game to your tempo?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
You know, we just try to push hard on every rebound.
Anytime that we have the opportunity to get a stop,
it's going to result in us being able to push.
And it's just a philosophy. I love getting down and
take some bad shots on it. Some people get so
worried about you know, they have to have the perfect shot.
We're going to take open threes and transition, and yeah,
you might have a few more turnovers. I can live
with that because I think it puts so much pressure
(02:11):
on the defense over and over again, and it wears
on them by the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
When's the last time you yelled at Caitlyn?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Probably last night. I haven't seen her yet this morning,
so not yet today.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Wait, how could you yell at her after last night's game?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yes, she's Caitlin. Got to keep her humble.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Okay, explain to me when you call technicals in practice
on her, what is the message you're trying to send
to her?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
You know, we bring in officials to you know, and
they're not like Division one officials, And we bring in
officials to work our scrimmages, and sometimes they get a
little bit more intimidated of her than they should, I think.
And so yeah, when she acts up in a scrimmage,
I'm going to tear up because that's the only way
she's going to learn, right, I mean, she has to
learn to control her behavior and control the controllables. Officials
(03:01):
are not a controllable. Don't bother trying.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
When did you give her the green light to shoot
whenever from wherever?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Probably when she walked on campus because she was capable
of it. You know, it's it's our dunk, right, I mean,
it's it's something that nobody else can do in our game.
Probably men are women, and she's fearless, and so I
mean she was she was doing this right from the beginning.
But actually her her range has increased as she's been
in the weight room, you know, and her freshman year
says pretty scrawny. She's still kind of scrawny, but you know,
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now she's got a little bit more muscle on her
and that's helped her shot range as well.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Okay, twenty four years in the sport, if I would
have told you ten years ago, five years ago, you're
going to have a transcendent player. You're going to have
you're gonna have a Steph Curry, what would you have said?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Thank you? I mean, you know, honestly, you know, everybody
when they're recruiting, oh, she's the you know, great player.
Everybody knows she's a great player, right, everybody knows that.
But to me, it's like nobody can predict that somebody's
gonna become this good. And if they say they you know,
if they say they predicted it, there, that's that's hogwash,
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that's not happening.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
What kind of relationship do you have a geno oreum.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
You know, a friendly relationship. You know, we're not like
close friends or anything like that, but we spend some
time together with USA Basketball and and things like that,
and on the recruiting trail. But not somebody that I've
you know, spent a lot of time with.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
What was the message at halftime last night when LSU
ties it up right before you go in?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah, it was hey ty game twenty minutes, you know,
and we thought they were getting tired at the end
of that second quarter, so let's come out with a
lot of energy. And I thought our team did. I
thought our team started the first and the third quarter
with great energy and kind of took control of that
game right off the bat. You know, when Caitlyn comes
out of the locker room, she's got that look in
her eye and she hits that that deep three in
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the first I thought, Okay, things are going to go okay.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Looking back on last year's title game, correct me if
I'm wrong, but it felt like LSU got into her more.
They were more physical, they were putting a hand in there,
and then you had Hailey van Lit this time around,
And how surprised were you that that was their strategy
against Kitlyn.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
You know, I thought Haley did a nice job of
keeping her in front of her. It was you know,
we had to give her a lot of ball screens
to get her to the rim. I think I was
surprised she got to the rim so easily in the
first quarter, and then they kind of adjusted after that.
But I thought Haley did a nice job on Caitlin.
But I think it was a more physical game last year.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, it just felt like they were going to try
to frustrate her. I don't know if they even got
close enough to frustrate her, because it felt like last
year she was maybe taken out of her game a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah, And I think she got married to the three
too much last year. You know, she took a lot
of threes last night, but last year she wasn't making them,
and she just kept going and going and going, and
we do we try to encourage her in the first quarter,
get to the room, get some easy ones first. I
thought she did a really good job of that in
the first quarter.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
You're looking at these crowds, though, and coach, you're seeing
young girls there with their parents showing up early, were
in Jersey. I mean, I wonder what the impact I mean,
Caitlyn's impact in ten years from now, seven years from now,
five years from now, what do you think it's going
to be on the sport.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I think there's a lot of little girls and little
boys out in their driveways this morning trying to shoot
like Caitlin Clark, and I think that's just so good
for our sport. It's you know, she has come at
the very right time with the NIL, with social media,
with all the television coverage. She has come at the
perfect time to help this sport explode. And I think
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she's going to have a long lasting effect. And the
next generation is coming up. We got great players coming
up around the country that are young, and they're just
going to take it from here.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I did ask her last year, I said, are you
giving any thought to staying an extra year? And she said, yeah,
because I love it so much with ni L Like,
you know, she's gonna she'll still make the endorsements, but
you know, the NIL is still playing. Did you did
you have any conversations with her about going to the
w n b A or you know, maybe coming back
(07:24):
for another year.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Absolutely. I had conversations with her, conversations with her parents.
You know, we obviously want her to come back, right.
I mean that was a no brainer for us, but
you know it was a hard decision for her, and
she looked at as a win win situation and I
think she's at peace with her decision to go to
the w n B A And I'll be your biggest
(07:47):
fan there.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
What's the schedule this week?
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
To this afternoon, we're heading to Cleveland. Uh. So we're
going to go out and have a nice team dinner tonight,
kind of get ready for our scout tonight. I haven't
even started that, but we'll have that ready for the
team tonight, and then a couple of practices and a
lot of hoopla that goes on at the Final four.
That's fun but can also be really taxing, so we're
gonna be careful of that this year.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Do you have advanced scouts that were at the Yukon game?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Not live, but we've been working on them. We were
at scouts ready for US and Yukon, and so we're prepared.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Coach, congratulations, have fun in Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Thank you. I appreciate it very much. Let's go Hawks.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
That's Lisa Blueter, the Iowa women's head basketball coach in
her twenty fourth season. Got that coach's voice at this
time of the year, it's a voice.
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Speaker 2 (09:22):
He's been one of the stars of March Madness. He's
DJ Burns Junior, the NC State forward. Next up for
them will be Number one perdue in the Final four
Saturday at six o'clock from Arizona. DJ, good to have
you on. If I would have told you a month
ago you'd be in the Final four, you would have said, what.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
If you let me tell it, I'd say we would
have been here.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
What would your teammates have said?
Speaker 5 (09:48):
They would have said that we'd be getting ready for
spring workout.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Okay, how did this team lose fourteen games?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Oh man? Our defensive connections just wasn't there first.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
You know, we had it sometimes and we saw a
glimpse of what we could do, but it didn't really
hit until the tournament where we just locked in.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
But you know, it's one of those where you play
five games five nights. It's almost like it was do
or die that if you had you're already playing tournament
basketball in the ACC tournament, or at least it felt
like that.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Oh man, it was crazy. Yeah, we lost the game,
it was we would be done right now. So those
guys just decided they were going to give it literally
every single thing they had left.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
How did it feel to beat Duke to get to
the final four. If I would have said, you could
have beaten anybody else, or you could beat in Duke,
would you have chosen another team?
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Honestly, it wouldn't have mattered to us, but it it
definitely does feel good to be, you know, come out
on top of Tobacco Road for the last two games
against those two teams.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I did like that. When you beat Duke in the
a SEC tournament, somebody said to you, hey, the fans
wereoting for you, and you said, no, no, they were
rooting for rooting against Duke, rooting for US just to
beat Duke. It wasn't necessarily for NC State. But do
you feel like an underdog still?
Speaker 4 (11:13):
We honestly did.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
We never felt that way, but you know that's just
how we were supposed to feel. But yeah, I think
that that title was a past us.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Now, how would you describe your game if somebody hadn't
seen you play?
Speaker 5 (11:28):
I would say more of a back to the basket
defender who has the ability to face up as well,
but a good passer and a good teammate.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Who do you model your game after?
Speaker 5 (11:41):
I wouldn't say I modeled after anyone, But I used
to watch a lot of Keen footwork growing up, just
because you know, that was something my father told me
it would make me different. So I went ahead, and
you know ran with.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I was going to say, your dad had to turn
you on to a king because you're not old enough
to have seen a keem play, but his footwork was
his special and he had like point guard footwork.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Oh yeah, for sure. We tried to hop on that early.
Unfortunately didn't have the you know, point guard body tech.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Okay, but your body type allows you like it felt
like you were just saying to Philipel Skiking, there's nothing
you can do like right, you get.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Yeah, I just try to take advantage of whatever he
would give me. You know, he's a great player. So
with someone like him, you know, you gotta find where
your niche is and get some angles on him and
try to have an advantage.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Are you starting to feel famous?
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Uh? Sadly, yes, yes, sir, I do.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
I do like it, but sometimes it could be a
bit much, especially at a time like this.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Okay, give me an idea of when it's uncomfortable being famous.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Uh. I mean it's really just, you know, certain things,
you know, require you to be on camera at all times,
and you know that's I have an out going personality,
but I don't necessarily want to be broadcasted at all times.
But you know, I understand that that's what comes with this.
So I'm kind of learning to accept it.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Okay, But you're a musician, so if you're going to
be a musician, you got to be out in front
of people. Are you more comfortable with that aspect of
being in front of people than you are playing basketball?
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Oh? No, sir, playing basketball is not the problem. I'm
more talking about, like, you know, walking through the hotel
and being on the bus and sometimes in my room.
You know, they the cameras just tend to follow when
you're you know, a trending topic.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
At the time.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
What's it like walking across campus.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Oh man, it's getting crazy, you know, just all the love,
you know, a lot of support, you know, the it
feels good to be able to, you know, bring this
back to Raleigh, bring some wins in for them.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Have you had a teacher ask for an autograph for
a photo?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Several? Yes, sir.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
I probably get probably get at least ten requests today
for that right now?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Oh all right?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Where did this football thing come from? Maybe trying the
NFL if you didn't make the NBA.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Oh, I think that just comes along with you know,
our team being trending right now. You know, they always
find something to talk about, and that just happened to
be one of the topics.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, but you want to play in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Correct, Yeah, sir, that's the plan.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Okay, if you don't make it, would football be something
that you would at least think about playing?
Speaker 5 (14:33):
I mean I probably explored some other options with basketball
first before all of that, but I won't I'm not
a closed minded person.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
That's the right option or the right answer there, because
if you can't play in the NBA, then can you
play overseas? But yeah, it just felt like it came
out of nowhere, and I thought it was April Fool's
joke where they're like, oh yeah, NFL teams are interested
in you. But have you heard from anybody?
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Nobody, not from me, not to me directly.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Okay, well it's been fun, keep smiling. Uh have you played?
Have you played somebody as tall as Zach Edy?
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Maybe a little closer, but not not not that's all.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
How do you prepare for somebody seven for.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
I won't give that away, but just know we're coming
with the game plan.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Okay, do you have a team manager stand on a
chair with a broom and then that'll give you an
idea of how how tall seven four is.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Yeah, they have the little I forget what they're called.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
I think it's like the little pro skill stick or
something that makes them able to stretch out real high.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
So I guess some work coming in.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
For it for sure.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
With Zach Edie's face on it, NA, uh, congrats on
the success. It's been wonderful story and good luck with
your future there, DJ, Yes, sir, I appreciate you. It's
DJ Burns Junior and C stayed forward.
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Speaker 2 (16:22):
He's they head basketball coach at Connecticut. They've got Alabama
coming up on Saturday. Danny Hurley back on the program.
When's the last time you shot hoops.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
Yesterday?
Speaker 4 (16:34):
How'd you do well?
Speaker 8 (16:37):
The half court shots and the three quarter court shots?
You know, I got off to a slow start, but
my threes and my free throws and finishing over my
son and the managers.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
Was pretty sharp.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Okay, but have you put on a clinic before you
the best? Were you ever the best shooter on your team?
Speaker 7 (16:59):
I was.
Speaker 8 (17:00):
I was the best shooter in in high school. I
was the best shooter in in the early house too,
growing up. Uh not non pressure. I had trouble. I
had trouble taking it from the country village courts to
you know, the big stadiums.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Okay, But did Bobby give you a grief though when
you're having shooting contents that he knew that he could
get to you?
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (17:27):
Absolutely. Bob was a master. Uh.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
Bob was a master at the art of of of
mental warfare. And it was an incredible uh ability to
get under your skin and to to to get you mad.
Uh and and he and and there's no better competitor
than that man.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
But did you adopt some of that? Do you do
you take that into your coaching philosophy?
Speaker 7 (17:53):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (17:53):
Absolutely, I think just growing up in the family, there's uh,
there's a specs that you find out about yourself that
that now you see some things from your dad, some
things you know from your brother that rubbed off on
you positive and negative.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
You know, the intensity, the passion, the competitiveness, I think,
the endurance. Uh you know that there's also empathy.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
But does tough love still work in college basketball? Well,
it's working for you. Would you describe it as tough love?
Speaker 7 (18:30):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 8 (18:33):
I think, Uh, you know, tough love, honesty, Uh, you know,
but I think the players will only allow that tough
love and that that that radical brutal honesty about where
exactly everything sits with them both in their career, their value,
what they're.
Speaker 7 (18:53):
Bringing to a team. Uh.
Speaker 8 (18:55):
If they know that you do love them, you have
a real relationship. They know that you pour everything you
got into them in terms of time and in terms
of uh, you know, just giving them everything you got.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
But then you also, you know, you got to have
old souls.
Speaker 8 (19:10):
You got to have kids that have old school parents, uh,
old school high school coaches that are gonna support you
when stuff starts to go sideways.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
And you brought this up before looking at the model
that you guys have the blueprint and that you've sort
of based this off Jay Wright with Villanova, Is that
fair to say?
Speaker 7 (19:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (19:28):
Culture, Uh, you know, the style of place is different
at both ends, but from a cultural standpoint, that was
the that's the gold standard.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Do you watch the games last night?
Speaker 7 (19:41):
I did? I especially was focused. Uh.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
I caught the second half of Iowa and LSU because
I had I spent a dinner with Kim Maulky last April,
and uh, but I was locked in on my huskies.
Speaker 7 (19:55):
Uh, let's go gino.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Who's more intent? You were? Kim Mulky.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
She's intense. He got it my neck. Man, I wasn't.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
I knew her.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
I knew of her. I knew her, you know, the
whole deal, all of her success.
Speaker 8 (20:11):
But she h hit she It hit me like a
like a like a like a tidal wave when I
met her.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
She she was intense.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
But how did it surprise you? I mean, you've seen
her before when she coaches.
Speaker 8 (20:26):
Yeah, but you know, generally when people meet me, they say,
or at least my wife tells me that her friends
always say, I I wow, Like I thought. I didn't
think he'd be normal. He seems like a pretty normal
guy away from his work.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
And then just regular settings. But uh, I didn't see
that we're coach.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
She had she had no off switches. What you're saying,
not that night. But do you ever have your your
dad or your wife who might say, hey, you know,
slow down or calm down, or anybody sort of the
lifeguard on duty with you?
Speaker 7 (21:08):
Yeah? I think you know me and Bob. Uh.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
You know, my dad doesn't have credibility because he modeled
being a monster a lot of most of my life,
so like that's uh do what I say, not as
I did type of situation.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Bob.
Speaker 8 (21:25):
I think me and Bob try to talk each other
off the Ledge show to speak. But you know, the
weird thing about us is like we're never both down
or up at the same time. So it's like when
one of us is playing well, the other one's struggling.
So uh, but we support each other. That has to
be my mom and my uh not my mom, my wife,
and then my agent sometimes will step in if you know,
(21:49):
if I'm over the top obviously get into it with
fans on the way out of arenas, or maybe too
much with the referees, then the agent will come in
and say, hey, you're going too far.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
You're talking to Dan Hurley, Connecticut head basketball coach. Wait,
your dad was a model monster on the sidelines.
Speaker 8 (22:06):
Yeah, yeah, I mean he used to go up in
there if people were yelling at him and you know,
flipping him off or you know, cat calling him. You know,
I've witnessed on more than one occasion at least two
or three hard steps into the bleachers.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
I've never seen him, you know, yoke someone up. But uh,
you know, my dad uh is one of the greatest
coaches of his generation. I mean, he was a master
and he mastered as many things as possible. But his
intensity is absolutely legendary.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
If I hadn't seen Yukon play, how would you describe
your style.
Speaker 8 (22:45):
I think it's aesthetically you know, pleasing. You know, we'll
play with pace. Uh in terms of getting up and
down with teams that want to run, you know, you see,
I think uh at the offensive end like uhuh the
ball movement, moving players, moving an approach to offense where
(23:05):
you know, we're just trying to get two on the
ball and and and let the defense tell us where
the ball needs to go next.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (23:12):
We haven't shot it well yet in the tournament, so
I'm excited for us to shoot it well in Arizona.
But I think we shoot threes, We dunk, you know,
we get on both backboards. You know, we defend with intensity.
Our benches live.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
Not just me. Uh.
Speaker 8 (23:27):
We we just bring an energy to the arena that
I think UH is old school.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
In terms of the culture, What was it like first
time you met Bill Murray?
Speaker 7 (23:40):
Surprising?
Speaker 8 (23:41):
I just every time you meet him at UH, I
think he's in a different His personalities maybe in like
a different place.
Speaker 7 (23:50):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
You know, sometimes he's funny, sometimes he's super laid back.
Sometimes he's fired up for the game.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (23:57):
I was surprised how much film he watched with us
last year during the march in April run. I was
surprised that he loves ball that much. He was watching
like six or seven you know San Diego State games.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Wait wait, wait, he's in film with he was.
Speaker 8 (24:12):
Last he was last year in in Houston, and you know,
rumor has it. I'm superstitious. So I was surprised that
I let him stay in the room because he had
never been in there. And usually I'm trying to remove newcomers,
especially when it's going good. But he's such a big star,
(24:32):
and Luke, Luke's been so critical to my success.
Speaker 7 (24:36):
I want to throw his dad out.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Yeah, Luke builds a son as an assistant with Danny.
But you know, this whole idiosyncrasy superstition, have you seen
somebody for it.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
I've I've been bounced around. Nolan's consistently kind of kept
me under their care. I think that once they start
to you know, hear about all these things stacking up,
you know, they lose like a hopeless, cause I guess
for them, I find it to be I don't know,
I look at it like it was like Steve Jobs
(25:11):
would wear like a jeans and a white shirt. Or
it's like I don't have to make that many decisions
about what to do because a lot of my superstitions
just kind of line me up to the game, you know,
like I don't have to pack or figure out what
I'm packing for this trip because I'm bringing the same
exact stuff that I brought to New York for the
Big East Tournament, that I brought to Brooklyn for the
(25:33):
first two rounds, that I brought to Boston for the
Sweet sixteen and Elite eight. So the positive part is
I don't have to make a lot of decisions. I
just bring everything I brought.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Your wife doesn't go crazy with us.
Speaker 8 (25:46):
She's I mean, she's half Greek, she's half Italian, She's
from Jersey her parents were born in Jersey City. Like,
if there was one person on earth that was absolutely
made to love and manage me and to keep me
upright functioning at a high level, it's Andrea Hurley.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
I don't know if you read the Yukon magazine that
comes out monthly. But I have a guy here on
my staff, Marvin, who went to Connecticut, and uh, he
was featured in there. So I don't know if you
saw it. I'm guessing you didn't. I don't want to
spoil it for you if you haven't read the article.
But if Ukind wins the national title, that I get
(26:26):
Marvin maybe in the parade.
Speaker 7 (26:29):
Oh absolutely, I know. I know Marvin. I see Marvin's
mom all the time too.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Yes, that's right, yes, yes, she's everywhere.
Speaker 8 (26:37):
His mom all the time, at Hartford and all over
the place. So Marv can't promise you you're going to
be on float one A, but I could, you know,
I think that there's a you know, float float one B.
I could definitely get hold your spot.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Oh, I'll take you, me and Klingon.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
Yeah, of course.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Klingon is going to be on one B. Huh, Hey
he might be on one A.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
Does not understand.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah, yeah, Marv, you got to know your place here,
you got to know your place there.
Speaker 7 (27:08):
So one B support staff. All right, Bet, I'll take you.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Oh, I'm taking it.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Hey, great to catch up with you. I got a
chance to spend time with your dad last year at
his Uh at his condo, and uh, I walked by
and my son lived in the same building. He goes, hey,
you know Bob Hurley. I go, yeah, he goes, he
lives right there. I go, wait the coach. He goes, yeah.
I go, how do you know Bob Hurley? He goes, Dad,
(27:35):
that's Bob Hurley. He goes, I'll knock on the door.
Knocks on the door. Your dad comes to the door,
and your dad goes, holy bleep, let me put my
teeth in. So I walked in and spent probably forty
five minutes with your dad just talking and it and
it was wonderful because he was laid back. He might
(27:57):
have been watching Judge Judy by himself, and uh, we
just talked basketball, and uh it was fun. It was
a great experience to to just have him talk, whether
it's high school, college, how he raised those kids, how
he raised you guys. Uh, what it's like to coach now,
transfer portal, you know, all of those things. So had
(28:19):
had an enjoyable time.
Speaker 7 (28:21):
So, yeah, he's still coaching.
Speaker 8 (28:22):
You know, he still still runs his program after school,
and you know, he's still he's still coaching five days
a week. And I'm glad that he's he moved on
to judge Judy because I was smoke for a while
and that was kind of that's freaking me out a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Uh, good luck, great to talk to you and thanks
for joining us.
Speaker 7 (28:43):
Dan, thanks man, pleasure being on.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
That's Dan Hurley, Connecticut, HEEAD basketball coach and uh they
got Saturday they face Alabama
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
She's the head coach women's head basketball coach at IOWA.
Lisa Blueter in her twenty four season, is the Hawkeyes
head coach. Kind enough to join us coach, how much
sleep last night? Not a lot?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
And that's okay with me.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The voice sounds like you were coaching. That's a coach's
voice right there.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
It's a coach's voice in April for sure, a little gravelly,
but that's okay. It's working and that's all it matters.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
What did you learn personally from the loss last year
in the title game to LSU.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
You know, I really learned. What I learned the most
about being in the final four last year and being
in that game was the amount of this is going
to sound like the amount of rest that you need.
It's just like it's so tiring going through this process
in the Sweet sixteen to the Elite eight to the
Final four. It's extremely exhausting. And just making sure that
(00:57):
we spend less time on x's and o's and more
time on recovery and rest.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Well, that's what I marvel at that you see these scores,
you know, it's Kobe. It's allan iverson every night. They
have to go out there and have more energy than
the opposition. And that's another thing that amazes me about Caitlin.
She doesn't come out of the game and you're playing
at a really fast pace. How do you kind of
(01:23):
coach her so she's not her own worst enemy.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Well, you know, we play like that all the time.
And you know, it's not like we just started playing
like that now, We've been playing like that for years
and that's her style. She loves it. She's comfortable with it.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Believe me.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
She never wants to come out of a game. If
I try to take her out of a game, it
doesn't go down so well. So she wants to be
on that court.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Explain your tempo and how do you get to the
game to your tempo?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
You know, we just try to push hard on every rebound.
Anytime that we have the opportunity to get a stop,
it's going to result in us being able to push.
And it's just a philosophy. I love getting down and
take some bad shots on it. Some people get so
worried about you know, they have to have the perfect shot.
We're going to take open threes and transition, and yeah,
you might have a few more turnovers. I can live
with that because I think it puts so much pressure
(02:11):
on the defense over and over again, and it wears
on them by the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
When's the last time you yelled at Caitlyn?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Probably last night. I haven't seen her yet this morning,
so not yet today.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Wait, how could you yell at her after last night's game?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yes, she's Caitlin. Got to keep her humble.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Okay, explain to me when you call technicals in practice
on her, what is the message you're trying to send
to her?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
You know, we bring in officials to you know, and
they're not like Division one officials, And we bring in
officials to work our scrimmages, and sometimes they get a
little bit more intimidated of her than they should, I think.
And so yeah, when she acts up in a scrimmage,
I'm going to tear up because that's the only way
she's going to learn, right, I mean, she has to
learn to control her behavior and control the controllables. Officials
(03:01):
are not a controllable. Don't bother trying.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
When did you give her the green light to shoot
whenever from wherever?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Probably when she walked on campus because she was capable
of it. You know, it's it's our dunk, right, I mean,
it's it's something that nobody else can do in our game.
Probably men are women, and she's fearless, and so I
mean she was she was doing this right from the beginning.
But actually her her range has increased as she's been
in the weight room, you know, and her freshman year
says pretty scrawny. She's still kind of scrawny, but you know,
(03:32):
now she's got a little bit more muscle on her
and that's helped her shot range as well.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Okay, twenty four years in the sport, if I would
have told you ten years ago, five years ago, you're
going to have a transcendent player. You're going to have
you're gonna have a Steph Curry, what would you have said?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Thank you? I mean, you know, honestly, you know, everybody
when they're recruiting, oh, she's the you know, great player.
Everybody knows she's a great player, right, everybody knows that.
But to me, it's like nobody can predict that somebody's
gonna become this good. And if they say they you know,
if they say they predicted it, there, that's that's hogwash,
(04:11):
that's not happening.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
What kind of relationship do you have a geno oreum.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
You know, a friendly relationship. You know, we're not like
close friends or anything like that, but we spend some
time together with USA Basketball and and things like that,
and on the recruiting trail. But not somebody that I've
you know, spent a lot of time with.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
What was the message at halftime last night when LSU
ties it up right before you go in?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah, it was hey ty game twenty minutes, you know,
and we thought they were getting tired at the end
of that second quarter, so let's come out with a
lot of energy. And I thought our team did. I
thought our team started the first and the third quarter
with great energy and kind of took control of that
game right off the bat. You know, when Caitlyn comes
out of the locker room, she's got that look in
her eye and she hits that that deep three in
(04:59):
the first I thought, Okay, things are going to go okay.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Looking back on last year's title game, correct me if
I'm wrong, but it felt like LSU got into her more.
They were more physical, they were putting a hand in there,
and then you had Hailey van Lit this time around,
And how surprised were you that that was their strategy
against Kitlyn.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
You know, I thought Haley did a nice job of
keeping her in front of her. It was you know,
we had to give her a lot of ball screens
to get her to the rim. I think I was
surprised she got to the rim so easily in the
first quarter, and then they kind of adjusted after that.
But I thought Haley did a nice job on Caitlin.
But I think it was a more physical game last year.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, it just felt like they were going to try
to frustrate her. I don't know if they even got
close enough to frustrate her, because it felt like last
year she was maybe taken out of her game a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah, And I think she got married to the three
too much last year. You know, she took a lot
of threes last night, but last year she wasn't making them,
and she just kept going and going and going, and
we do we try to encourage her in the first quarter,
get to the room, get some easy ones first. I
thought she did a really good job of that in
the first quarter.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
You're looking at these crowds, though, and coach, you're seeing
young girls there with their parents showing up early, were
in Jersey. I mean, I wonder what the impact I mean,
Caitlyn's impact in ten years from now, seven years from now,
five years from now, what do you think it's going
to be on the sport.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I think there's a lot of little girls and little
boys out in their driveways this morning trying to shoot
like Caitlin Clark, and I think that's just so good
for our sport. It's you know, she has come at
the very right time with the NIL, with social media,
with all the television coverage. She has come at the
perfect time to help this sport explode. And I think
(06:52):
she's going to have a long lasting effect. And the
next generation is coming up. We got great players coming
up around the country that are young, and they're just
going to take it from here.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I did ask her last year, I said, are you
giving any thought to staying an extra year? And she said, yeah,
because I love it so much with ni L Like,
you know, she's gonna she'll still make the endorsements, but
you know, the NIL is still playing. Did you did
you have any conversations with her about going to the
w n b A or you know, maybe coming back
(07:24):
for another year.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Absolutely. I had conversations with her, conversations with her parents.
You know, we obviously want her to come back, right.
I mean that was a no brainer for us, but
you know it was a hard decision for her, and
she looked at as a win win situation and I
think she's at peace with her decision to go to
the w n B A And I'll be your biggest
(07:47):
fan there.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
What's the schedule this week?
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
To this afternoon, we're heading to Cleveland. Uh. So we're
going to go out and have a nice team dinner tonight,
kind of get ready for our scout tonight. I haven't
even started that, but we'll have that ready for the
team tonight, and then a couple of practices and a
lot of hoopla that goes on at the Final four.
That's fun but can also be really taxing, so we're
gonna be careful of that this year.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Do you have advanced scouts that were at the Yukon game?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Not live, but we've been working on them. We were
at scouts ready for US and Yukon, and so we're prepared.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Coach, congratulations, have fun in Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Thank you. I appreciate it very much. Let's go Hawks.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
That's Lisa Blueter, the Iowa women's head basketball coach in
her twenty fourth season. Got that coach's voice at this
time of the year, it's a voice.
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Speaker 2 (09:22):
He's been one of the stars of March Madness. He's
DJ Burns Junior, the NC State forward. Next up for
them will be Number one perdue in the Final four
Saturday at six o'clock from Arizona. DJ, good to have
you on. If I would have told you a month
ago you'd be in the Final four, you would have said, what.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
If you let me tell it, I'd say we would
have been here.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
What would your teammates have said?
Speaker 5 (09:48):
They would have said that we'd be getting ready for
spring workout.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Okay, how did this team lose fourteen games?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Oh man? Our defensive connections just wasn't there first.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
You know, we had it sometimes and we saw a
glimpse of what we could do, but it didn't really
hit until the tournament where we just locked in.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
But you know, it's one of those where you play
five games five nights. It's almost like it was do
or die that if you had you're already playing tournament
basketball in the ACC tournament, or at least it felt
like that.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Oh man, it was crazy. Yeah, we lost the game,
it was we would be done right now. So those
guys just decided they were going to give it literally
every single thing they had left.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
How did it feel to beat Duke to get to
the final four. If I would have said, you could
have beaten anybody else, or you could beat in Duke,
would you have chosen another team?
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Honestly, it wouldn't have mattered to us, but it it
definitely does feel good to be, you know, come out
on top of Tobacco Road for the last two games
against those two teams.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I did like that. When you beat Duke in the
a SEC tournament, somebody said to you, hey, the fans
wereoting for you, and you said, no, no, they were
rooting for rooting against Duke, rooting for US just to
beat Duke. It wasn't necessarily for NC State. But do
you feel like an underdog still?
Speaker 4 (11:13):
We honestly did.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
We never felt that way, but you know that's just
how we were supposed to feel. But yeah, I think
that that title was a past us.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Now, how would you describe your game if somebody hadn't
seen you play?
Speaker 5 (11:28):
I would say more of a back to the basket
defender who has the ability to face up as well,
but a good passer and a good teammate.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Who do you model your game after?
Speaker 5 (11:41):
I wouldn't say I modeled after anyone, But I used
to watch a lot of Keen footwork growing up, just
because you know, that was something my father told me
it would make me different. So I went ahead, and
you know ran with.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I was going to say, your dad had to turn
you on to a king because you're not old enough
to have seen a keem play, but his footwork was
his special and he had like point guard footwork.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Oh yeah, for sure. We tried to hop on that early.
Unfortunately didn't have the you know, point guard body tech.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Okay, but your body type allows you like it felt
like you were just saying to Philipel Skiking, there's nothing
you can do like right, you get.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Yeah, I just try to take advantage of whatever he
would give me. You know, he's a great player. So
with someone like him, you know, you gotta find where
your niche is and get some angles on him and
try to have an advantage.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Are you starting to feel famous?
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Uh? Sadly, yes, yes, sir, I do.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
I do like it, but sometimes it could be a
bit much, especially at a time like this.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Okay, give me an idea of when it's uncomfortable being famous.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Uh. I mean it's really just, you know, certain things,
you know, require you to be on camera at all times,
and you know that's I have an out going personality,
but I don't necessarily want to be broadcasted at all times.
But you know, I understand that that's what comes with this.
So I'm kind of learning to accept it.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Okay, But you're a musician, so if you're going to
be a musician, you got to be out in front
of people. Are you more comfortable with that aspect of
being in front of people than you are playing basketball?
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Oh? No, sir, playing basketball is not the problem. I'm
more talking about, like, you know, walking through the hotel
and being on the bus and sometimes in my room.
You know, they the cameras just tend to follow when
you're you know, a trending topic.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
At the time.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
What's it like walking across campus.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Oh man, it's getting crazy, you know, just all the love,
you know, a lot of support, you know, the it
feels good to be able to, you know, bring this
back to Raleigh, bring some wins in for them.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Have you had a teacher ask for an autograph for
a photo?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Several? Yes, sir.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
I probably get probably get at least ten requests today
for that right now?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Oh all right?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Where did this football thing come from? Maybe trying the
NFL if you didn't make the NBA.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Oh, I think that just comes along with you know,
our team being trending right now. You know, they always
find something to talk about, and that just happened to
be one of the topics.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, but you want to play in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Correct, Yeah, sir, that's the plan.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Okay, if you don't make it, would football be something
that you would at least think about playing?
Speaker 5 (14:33):
I mean I probably explored some other options with basketball
first before all of that, but I won't I'm not
a closed minded person.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
That's the right option or the right answer there, because
if you can't play in the NBA, then can you
play overseas? But yeah, it just felt like it came
out of nowhere, and I thought it was April Fool's
joke where they're like, oh yeah, NFL teams are interested
in you. But have you heard from anybody?
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Nobody, not from me, not to me directly.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Okay, well it's been fun, keep smiling. Uh have you played?
Have you played somebody as tall as Zach Edy?
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Maybe a little closer, but not not not that's all.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
How do you prepare for somebody seven for.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
I won't give that away, but just know we're coming
with the game plan.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Okay, do you have a team manager stand on a
chair with a broom and then that'll give you an
idea of how how tall seven four is.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Yeah, they have the little I forget what they're called.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
I think it's like the little pro skill stick or
something that makes them able to stretch out real high.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
So I guess some work coming in.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
For it for sure.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
With Zach Edie's face on it, NA, uh, congrats on
the success. It's been wonderful story and good luck with
your future there, DJ, Yes, sir, I appreciate you. It's
DJ Burns Junior and C stayed forward.
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Speaker 2 (16:22):
He's they head basketball coach at Connecticut. They've got Alabama
coming up on Saturday. Danny Hurley back on the program.
When's the last time you shot hoops.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
Yesterday?
Speaker 4 (16:34):
How'd you do well?
Speaker 8 (16:37):
The half court shots and the three quarter court shots?
You know, I got off to a slow start, but
my threes and my free throws and finishing over my
son and the managers.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
Was pretty sharp.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Okay, but have you put on a clinic before you
the best? Were you ever the best shooter on your team?
Speaker 7 (16:59):
I was.
Speaker 8 (17:00):
I was the best shooter in in high school. I
was the best shooter in in the early house too,
growing up. Uh not non pressure. I had trouble. I
had trouble taking it from the country village courts to
you know, the big stadiums.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Okay, But did Bobby give you a grief though when
you're having shooting contents that he knew that he could
get to you?
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (17:27):
Absolutely. Bob was a master. Uh.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
Bob was a master at the art of of of
mental warfare. And it was an incredible uh ability to
get under your skin and to to to get you mad.
Uh and and he and and there's no better competitor
than that man.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
But did you adopt some of that? Do you do
you take that into your coaching philosophy?
Speaker 7 (17:53):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (17:53):
Absolutely, I think just growing up in the family, there's uh,
there's a specs that you find out about yourself that
that now you see some things from your dad, some
things you know from your brother that rubbed off on
you positive and negative.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
You know, the intensity, the passion, the competitiveness, I think,
the endurance. Uh you know that there's also empathy.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
But does tough love still work in college basketball? Well,
it's working for you. Would you describe it as tough love?
Speaker 7 (18:30):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 8 (18:33):
I think, Uh, you know, tough love, honesty, Uh, you know,
but I think the players will only allow that tough
love and that that that radical brutal honesty about where
exactly everything sits with them both in their career, their value,
what they're.
Speaker 7 (18:53):
Bringing to a team. Uh.
Speaker 8 (18:55):
If they know that you do love them, you have
a real relationship. They know that you pour everything you
got into them in terms of time and in terms
of uh, you know, just giving them everything you got.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
But then you also, you know, you got to have
old souls.
Speaker 8 (19:10):
You got to have kids that have old school parents, uh,
old school high school coaches that are gonna support you
when stuff starts to go sideways.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
And you brought this up before looking at the model
that you guys have the blueprint and that you've sort
of based this off Jay Wright with Villanova, Is that
fair to say?
Speaker 7 (19:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (19:28):
Culture, Uh, you know, the style of place is different
at both ends, but from a cultural standpoint, that was
the that's the gold standard.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Do you watch the games last night?
Speaker 7 (19:41):
I did? I especially was focused. Uh.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
I caught the second half of Iowa and LSU because
I had I spent a dinner with Kim Maulky last April,
and uh, but I was locked in on my huskies.
Speaker 7 (19:55):
Uh, let's go gino.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Who's more intent? You were? Kim Mulky.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
She's intense. He got it my neck. Man, I wasn't.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
I knew her.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
I knew of her. I knew her, you know, the
whole deal, all of her success.
Speaker 8 (20:11):
But she h hit she It hit me like a
like a like a like a tidal wave when I
met her.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
She she was intense.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
But how did it surprise you? I mean, you've seen
her before when she coaches.
Speaker 8 (20:26):
Yeah, but you know, generally when people meet me, they say,
or at least my wife tells me that her friends
always say, I I wow, Like I thought. I didn't
think he'd be normal. He seems like a pretty normal
guy away from his work.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
And then just regular settings. But uh, I didn't see
that we're coach.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
She had she had no off switches. What you're saying,
not that night. But do you ever have your your
dad or your wife who might say, hey, you know,
slow down or calm down, or anybody sort of the
lifeguard on duty with you?
Speaker 7 (21:08):
Yeah? I think you know me and Bob. Uh.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
You know, my dad doesn't have credibility because he modeled
being a monster a lot of most of my life,
so like that's uh do what I say, not as
I did type of situation.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Bob.
Speaker 8 (21:25):
I think me and Bob try to talk each other
off the Ledge show to speak. But you know, the
weird thing about us is like we're never both down
or up at the same time. So it's like when
one of us is playing well, the other one's struggling.
So uh, but we support each other. That has to
be my mom and my uh not my mom, my wife,
and then my agent sometimes will step in if you know,
(21:49):
if I'm over the top obviously get into it with
fans on the way out of arenas, or maybe too
much with the referees, then the agent will come in
and say, hey, you're going too far.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
You're talking to Dan Hurley, Connecticut head basketball coach. Wait,
your dad was a model monster on the sidelines.
Speaker 8 (22:06):
Yeah, yeah, I mean he used to go up in
there if people were yelling at him and you know,
flipping him off or you know, cat calling him. You know,
I've witnessed on more than one occasion at least two
or three hard steps into the bleachers.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
I've never seen him, you know, yoke someone up. But uh,
you know, my dad uh is one of the greatest
coaches of his generation. I mean, he was a master
and he mastered as many things as possible. But his
intensity is absolutely legendary.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
If I hadn't seen Yukon play, how would you describe
your style.
Speaker 8 (22:45):
I think it's aesthetically you know, pleasing. You know, we'll
play with pace. Uh in terms of getting up and
down with teams that want to run, you know, you see,
I think uh at the offensive end like uhuh the
ball movement, moving players, moving an approach to offense where
(23:05):
you know, we're just trying to get two on the
ball and and and let the defense tell us where
the ball needs to go next.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (23:12):
We haven't shot it well yet in the tournament, so
I'm excited for us to shoot it well in Arizona.
But I think we shoot threes, We dunk, you know,
we get on both backboards. You know, we defend with intensity.
Our benches live.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
Not just me. Uh.
Speaker 8 (23:27):
We we just bring an energy to the arena that
I think UH is old school.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
In terms of the culture, What was it like first
time you met Bill Murray?
Speaker 7 (23:40):
Surprising?
Speaker 8 (23:41):
I just every time you meet him at UH, I
think he's in a different His personalities maybe in like
a different place.
Speaker 7 (23:50):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
You know, sometimes he's funny, sometimes he's super laid back.
Sometimes he's fired up for the game.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (23:57):
I was surprised how much film he watched with us
last year during the march in April run. I was
surprised that he loves ball that much. He was watching
like six or seven you know San Diego State games.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Wait wait, wait, he's in film with he was.
Speaker 8 (24:12):
Last he was last year in in Houston, and you know,
rumor has it. I'm superstitious. So I was surprised that
I let him stay in the room because he had
never been in there. And usually I'm trying to remove newcomers,
especially when it's going good. But he's such a big star,
(24:32):
and Luke, Luke's been so critical to my success.
Speaker 7 (24:36):
I want to throw his dad out.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Yeah, Luke builds a son as an assistant with Danny.
But you know, this whole idiosyncrasy superstition, have you seen
somebody for it.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
I've I've been bounced around. Nolan's consistently kind of kept
me under their care. I think that once they start
to you know, hear about all these things stacking up,
you know, they lose like a hopeless, cause I guess
for them, I find it to be I don't know,
I look at it like it was like Steve Jobs
(25:11):
would wear like a jeans and a white shirt. Or
it's like I don't have to make that many decisions
about what to do because a lot of my superstitions
just kind of line me up to the game, you know,
like I don't have to pack or figure out what
I'm packing for this trip because I'm bringing the same
exact stuff that I brought to New York for the
Big East Tournament, that I brought to Brooklyn for the
(25:33):
first two rounds, that I brought to Boston for the
Sweet sixteen and Elite eight. So the positive part is
I don't have to make a lot of decisions. I
just bring everything I brought.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Your wife doesn't go crazy with us.
Speaker 8 (25:46):
She's I mean, she's half Greek, she's half Italian, She's
from Jersey her parents were born in Jersey City. Like,
if there was one person on earth that was absolutely
made to love and manage me and to keep me
upright functioning at a high level, it's Andrea Hurley.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
I don't know if you read the Yukon magazine that
comes out monthly. But I have a guy here on
my staff, Marvin, who went to Connecticut, and uh, he
was featured in there. So I don't know if you
saw it. I'm guessing you didn't. I don't want to
spoil it for you if you haven't read the article.
But if Ukind wins the national title, that I get
(26:26):
Marvin maybe in the parade.
Speaker 7 (26:29):
Oh absolutely, I know. I know Marvin. I see Marvin's
mom all the time too.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Yes, that's right, yes, yes, she's everywhere.
Speaker 8 (26:37):
His mom all the time, at Hartford and all over
the place. So Marv can't promise you you're going to
be on float one A, but I could, you know,
I think that there's a you know, float float one B.
I could definitely get hold your spot.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Oh, I'll take you, me and Klingon.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
Yeah, of course.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Klingon is going to be on one B. Huh, Hey
he might be on one A.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
Does not understand.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah, yeah, Marv, you got to know your place here,
you got to know your place there.
Speaker 7 (27:08):
So one B support staff. All right, Bet, I'll take you.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Oh, I'm taking it.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Hey, great to catch up with you. I got a
chance to spend time with your dad last year at
his Uh at his condo, and uh, I walked by
and my son lived in the same building. He goes, hey,
you know Bob Hurley. I go, yeah, he goes, he
lives right there. I go, wait the coach. He goes, yeah.
I go, how do you know Bob Hurley? He goes, Dad,
(27:35):
that's Bob Hurley. He goes, I'll knock on the door.
Knocks on the door. Your dad comes to the door,
and your dad goes, holy bleep, let me put my
teeth in. So I walked in and spent probably forty
five minutes with your dad just talking and it and
it was wonderful because he was laid back. He might
(27:57):
have been watching Judge Judy by himself, and uh, we
just talked basketball, and uh it was fun. It was
a great experience to to just have him talk, whether
it's high school, college, how he raised those kids, how
he raised you guys. Uh, what it's like to coach now,
transfer portal, you know, all of those things. So had
(28:19):
had an enjoyable time.
Speaker 7 (28:21):
So, yeah, he's still coaching.
Speaker 8 (28:22):
You know, he still still runs his program after school,
and you know, he's still he's still coaching five days
a week. And I'm glad that he's he moved on
to judge Judy because I was smoke for a while
and that was kind of that's freaking me out a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Uh, good luck, great to talk to you and thanks
for joining us.
Speaker 7 (28:43):
Dan, thanks man, pleasure being on.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
That's Dan Hurley, Connecticut, HEEAD basketball coach and uh they
got Saturday they face Alabama
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