FILE – UConn head coach Dan Hurley celebrates slicing the online after their win in opposition to Purdue within the NCAA school Ultimate 4 championship basketball sport, Monday, April 8, 2024, in Glendale, Ariz. UConn and males’s basketball coach Dan Hurley have agreed to a six-year, $50 million contract by the 2029-30 season, almost a month after he turned down a profitable provide to educate the Los Angeles Lakers. (AP Picture/David J. Phillip, File)
STORRS, Connecticut — UConn and males’s basketball coach Dan Hurley have agreed to a six-year, $50 million contract by the 2029-30 season that makes him one of many nation’s highest paid school coaches almost a month after he turned down a profitable provide to educate the Los Angeles Lakers.
Hurley, who handed on guiding the storied NBA membership to return to the two-time defending NCAA champions, may also earn extra by performance-based incentives, a Monday launch from the college said.
He’ll obtain $6.375 million subsequent season along with his $400,000 base annual wage, which incorporates compensation from talking, consulting and media obligations.
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The settlement, which features a $1 million annual retention bonus, will probably be lined by elevated ticket gross sales income and donations from the Husky Athletic Fund, the discharge added. It replaces the six-year, $32.1 million settlement reached in June 2023 after Hurley received his first nationwide championship with UConn.
Hurley — 141-58 in six seasons with the Huskies and 292-163 total coming into his fifteenth as a Division I head coach — acknowledged that the Lakers’ six-year, $70 million provide was “clearly tempting.”
He was additionally talked about as a candidate for the Kentucky teaching emptiness after John Calipari left for Arkansas. However Hurley reiterated final month that he belongs at UConn and said within the launch that “it’s an honor” to educate and signify the college and is pleased with what this system has rebuilt for supporters and followers.
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He added: “We’ll proceed to obsessively pursue championships and historic success, whereas persevering with to develop nice younger males. Bleed Blue!”
UConn President Radenka Maric referred to as Hurley the nation’s finest males’s basketball coach and stated he was delighted Hurley will proceed to name it dwelling.
Athletic director David Benedict praised Hurley and spouse Andrea for pouring themselves into rebuilding this system added that the contract acknowledges the “immense” effort that has produced the outcomes and the dedication it should require for this system to maintain it.
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