FILE – UConn head coach Dan Hurley celebrates chopping the online after their win towards 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 way of the 2029-30 season, almost a month after he turned down a profitable supply to educate the Los Angeles Lakers. (AP Photograph/David J. Phillip, File)
STORRS, Connecticut — UConn and males’s basketball coach Dan Hurley have agreed to a six-year, $50 million contract by way of 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 supply 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 way of performance-based incentives, a Monday launch from the college acknowledged.
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, can 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 gained his first nationwide championship with UConn.
Hurley — 141-58 in six seasons with the Huskies and 292-163 general getting into his fifteenth as a Division I head coach — acknowledged that the Lakers’ six-year, $70 million supply 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 acknowledged within the launch that “it’s an honor” to educate and symbolize the college and is happy 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 known as Hurley the nation’s greatest males’s basketball coach and stated he was delighted Hurley will proceed to name it house.
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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