What is Dan Hurley’s salary at UCONN? How much does the Huskies head coach make?
The Los Angeles Lakers offered UCONN coach Dan Hurley a blockbuster deal to be their next head coach, but he turned it down to pursue a three-peat at UCONN.
The UCONN Huskies have returned to prominence in the college basketball landscape over the last two years, and head coach Dan Hurley has been at the face of the resurgence. After back-to-back titles in college, the NBA came calling, but the basketball “blue blood” is staying put in Connecticut.
Hurley a Husky for the long term
The Los Angeles Lakers made headlines last week, announcing the Huskies coach was their top target to fill in on the sidelines of Crypto.com Arena after the recent firing of Darvin Ham. After meeting with the Lakers last week, Hurley turned down their six-year, $70 million dollar offer to stay at UCONN and chase a third straight title.
After bringing the Huskies back to the championship game in 2023, and winning it for the first time since 2014, the university offered their coach a six year extension worth $32.1 million dollars. The $5.25 million per year he makes at UCONN puts him right outside the Top-5 paid coaches at the collegiate ranks, behind Bill Self, Tom Izzo and a handful of other big name coaches. If he had signed with the Lakers, he would have been a Top-5 paid coach in the NBA without ever coaching a minute in the league.
Hurley, the son of hall of fame high school coach Bob Hurley Sr, has brought a renaissance to UCONN that hasn’t gone unnoticed by those in the NBA, but the glitz and the glamour of LA wasn’t enough to lure him away from the Harry A. Gample Pavilion.
Hurley’s career path
Hurley started his career on the sidelines as an assistant at St. Anthony’s High School where his dad coached before spending time as an assistant for Rutgers University. His first head coach job came a Saint Benedict’s Prep School were he turned that program into one of the top basketball prep schools in the nation.
Not long after Wagner University came calling. He spent two years at the Staten Island program before shipping off to Rhode Island where he led the Rams to an A-10 Tournament championship and then an A-10 regular season title in back-to-back years.
After catching the the of a handful of elite programs around the country, Hurley accepted a job as coach of the UCONN Huskies. He returned the program to the NCAA tournament after a two year absence. Six years after signing on with the Huskies he brought UCONN their fifth national title as a four seed in the 2023 tournament. After winning back-to-back titles this past spring, it looks like Hurley is gong to stay a Husky for quite a while. If UCONN can pull it off next year they would be the just the second program ever to win back-to-back-to-back titles, after UCLA did so in their run of seven straight championships more than a half century ago.