“He Gone!” – Rich Eisen: Why UConn’s Dan Hurley Should Jump at Taking the Lakers’ HC Job

Rich Eisen reacts to the news that the Lakers are making a hard push to bring UConn Huskies head coach Dan Hurley to Los Angeles.

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tonight uh the broadcast on uh on ABC and Mike Breen the reigning uh Emmy Award winner uh we spoke to Doris Burke last week she will be making Sports television history tonight the first female analyst to be part of a broadcast of NBA finals action she’s the first to do that and that’ll be great and we all assumed that the man who’s joining those two uh is just the Los Angeles Lakers head coach in Waiting in JJ reck there’s been a lot of Buzz about that um certainly since JJ and LeBron have been doing a little bit of a podcast together over the last uh couple weeks couple months and the general sense was that uh JJ reck was the Lakers coach in waiting and we were just waiting for the finals to end and that would just be the end of the coaching search that’s been open ever since dar H got bounced once the Lakers got bounced from the playoffs and then Adrian Wen rowski held everybody’s beer today certainly since there were some in the NBA information business who said yesterday it was reck’s job essentially to lose and if that’s the case he’s lost it and according to W he’s never really had it MH because according to the WJ bomb today the Los Angeles Lakers have been Relentless in in their Pursuit that’s the word w used on ESPN this morning Relentless in their pursuit of Yukon back-to-back National Champion head coach Dan Hurley Relentless and they’ve been on him since their job was open he also called the other interviews that have been had as essentially informational and that it’s been hurly from the beginning there is according to WJ I wrote down these words traction there’s Traction in the interview process right now as the Lakers are preparing what is called a massive long-term offer for Dan Hurley’s services and they view him as a quote unquote program Builder that will span the end of the LeBron on Anthony Davis era into whatever the next era of Lakers basketball and Hurley is quote unquote listening I assume like frasia crane I’m listening oh wow $100 million will make you listen well let’s just say this um as a man who has left the state of Connecticut as a man who has left the state of Connecticut and moved to to Los Angeles to start a new career he gone he gone uh be very honest with you I believe he gone yeah and I will say this I mean obviously if WJ is saying it’s a massive long-term offer and they are Relentless and they are 100% into it and they’re going to put the proper money on the table so a guy who just signed a six-year $32 million extension to try and do something in college basketball that John Wooden was the last to do which is win three in a row and to be able to ET your name in that style of the record book that yes you’d need to come correct in a way that the Lakers are not known for coming correct in a way for their head coaches we were talking the other day that the last one that they kind of paid in this manner at top of the line was Phil Jackson and we’ve watched tyou come to Los Angeles but not the Lakers and we’ve seen them with Frank vogle and we’ve seen them with Darin ham and we’ve seen them not go and give top-of-the-line money to head coaches buen holer is now in Phoenix we watch that happen we just sort of all assumed that they would just keep on keeping on like that and we all know about assuming because I will say this Rob pinka Michigan man and yes Los Angeles would have to say they now would have not one but two reigning National Champion head coach who left college to go coach a team in Los Angeles I will say to jeie bus this would be an absolute monster coup certainly because LeBron you know LeBron would like it because fascinatingly enough LeBron we know he thinks Dan Hurley is on The Cutting Edge of coaching and coaching offense because Dan Hurley’s special brand of coaching and play calling how about this you can’t make this up it was brought up broken down in a brilliant conversation on a podcast hosted by the guy we all thought was going to get this job and may still and JJ reick on his old man in the threep Pod he brought up to Dan Hurley a particular offensive set that reic hadn’t really seen and wanted a break down and the three of the two of these guys went on a three-minute conversation that I would definitely you know send you to go to the Internet tubes to go check out LeBron wrote when he heard this conversation about Hurley breaking down the offense with JJ reck he’s so damn good three exclamation points along with his staff super creative with their o love it April 19th 202 24 who would have thought we would be here on June 6th 2024 talking about JJ reck maybe not being the next coach of the Lakers Dan Hurley might be the next head coach of the Lakers we all know LeBron would kind of I would imagine approve it and in this day and age where eyeballs are important hearts and minds of fans are important I know this is a Laker town and once upon a time when the Lakers were really down and the Clippers were looking terrific I even made mention into this microphone could this possibly in any way shape or form Twitch in the direction of being a Clipper Town oh man okay and that was silly you didn’t check your mentions that night no it was silly but the Clippers are opening up a new dome they’re moving out they’re creating their own space they’re creating their own brand they’re creating their own sense of selves and they’re also opening up a brand new dome that I know many people in this town are curious what it will look like and hear about it’ll be cutting edge and they’ve got all sorts of toilets and bells and whistles sorry I can help wow and folks are going to be curious what’s it like there what are they going down there and whatever and if they say come see LeBron and Anthony Davis and the rest of the Lakers with the two-time defending national Champion head coach of Yukon Basketball Dan Hurley and you never know what the hell he’s gonna do on the sidelines right what P somebody yeah he’s gonna he’s gonna shove D’Angelo Russell or whatever in the back to go cover somebody like who knows come see Dan Hurley that’s a metric that you have to entertain and also tell the rest of the league the Lakers will spend on coaches they will think outside the they will be aggressive and if you really want to extrapolate it out I mean who better who would who who better to coach your son than Dan Hurley if that’s the way LeBron’s thinking if he’s going to be there long term oh so I’ll play with my son and then I’ll set him up with a guy that I’m very happy to have Coach my son and be the architect of his career and if you’re Dan Hurley what better time than now you your stock is as high as it’s going to get that’s a good point and college is as off the rails in terms of knowing what the future is than it’s ever been and you’re sitting up there in Yukon and the nil world and sitting up there in Yukon in the world of you know meeting to compete apparently at some point about with other institutions of higher learning about being able to pay your players and collectives and and um also your facilities and the Lakers come knocking and offer you potentially a generationally enriching contract an opportunity to come coach the Los Angeles Lakers and you get to scratch the NBA itch that you’ve made known that you’re interested in one day scratching yo where do I sign how do you say no to this yeah can I don’t even need to know the number can I just say why mate okay well like youve said when it comes to coaches and family right the wife plays a big part absolutely so you have Danny Hurley and his wife she’s from Jersey didn’t want to move right he they’re both East Coast To The Bone to the core he was the Arizona State coach though yeah but they’ve already lived on the west coast before but now he wifey got to go back home with the family I’m just saying that could be a way he’s going to have way more job security in Connecticut than he’s going to have in Los Angeles you know what I mean I’m just saying these are just some reasons why it might not no CU When when it came to when it you you know you’re you’re also thinking of his brother unfortunately Chris no um but when it when it came to him when him it came to him maybe being the coach of Kentucky remember that got bandied about when that dropped when well he was also saying you know his his wife is from New Jersey and you know like Yukon was as far as he would take it or what have you I I I I understand I I understand east coast and whatever but if the Lakers are going to put the scratch on the table that I’m thinking of you know uh you can tell the misses about PJs and things like that they can be by Co I don’t know but but you’re right there is the personal aspect of it and I I I I am just only considering just the sense of his professional playing care of his professional coaching career yeah you know so uh this one sounds to me like it’s it’s too tough to turn down unless the Lakers don’t offer certain X Y and Z cuz he does have every every piece of Leverage right now which is why I’m like his his leverage will never get any higher good point uh unless he does win three in a row but then the Lakers job won won’t be available to him one would think they will fill it with somebody that they will obviously give a longer term contract to the last thing they want to do is vogle out ham in this guy in that guy now out and move things around a and um you know one last thing his leverage also could be name a wealthy Yukon Alum name a handful of them they must be getting together right now figuring out how do we how do we put a stop to this you know I I don’t know how you do if the Lakers come correct if they come correct tough to turn you know I I I I cannot imagine Dan Hurley is not the next head coach Lakers and that would send a lightning bolt through Laker Nation and this town to add Dan Hurley to Jim Harbaugh and Shawn McVey and Ty Lou you know and Lincoln rileyy and our friend you know gotta say DeShawn Foster who we’re very big fans of here you know I mean it’s a b sighting in this town very exciting in this town and I say to the Lakers down the street my cap to you you kept this one um underneath the radar literally down the street too I do I know right there I love it what an idea and if it doesn’t work you go back to college oh you’ll be the most sought after college coach on the market you can name your price I don’t know how it wouldn’t work I don’t know well I mean Darin ham thought it would never not work I got it I don’t know after winning a title I guess so you’re right catch the rich eyes and show every single day on the Roku Channel 12 to 3 Eastern for free