UConn Huskies' Dan Hurley receives strong message from former player

There are very few head coaches in any sport more entertaining or intense than UConn Huskies head men's basketball coach Dan Hurley. He has built something special with UConn and even passed up an opportunity to become the head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers to remain with the Huskies.

UConn has won two out of the last three national championships under Hurley. He had the team looking like a sleeper contender last season, coming up just short in the second round against the eventual champion Florida Gators.

Hurley has found a lot of success on the sidelines with the Huskies. However, he has also made a major impact on the players he has coached.

One of his former players, Cam Spencer, recently spoke out about his former head coach. Spencer had nothing but great things to say about Hurley.

"There's not a college coach that puts more into his team and helping his players, you know, both on and off the court," Spencer said. "I mean, the intensity level that he brought every day in practice, you know, was even worse than what you see on the sidelines and in the game. So I think you see that in how his players play for him, how his coaches coach for him. Like he truly does, give everything he has to that program."

When former players speak out about their old coaches like that, the coach is doing something right.

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Since taking over as UConn's head coach back in the 2018-19 season, he has led the program to an impressive 165-69 record, good enough for a 70.5 percent win rate. He had good success in his two previous college coaching opportunities as well, compiling a 38-23 record at Wagner in his first coaching job and a 113-82 record with Rhode Island after that.

There is no denying that Hurley has been good for the game of college basketball. He has been even better for the Huskies and has been even better than that for the players he has coached.