STORRS, CONNECTICUT - JANUARY 18: Connecticut Huskies head coach Dan Hurley talks to officials during the first half of an ...

a symbol of his relationship with referees. But what caught the most attention on social media and elsewhere was an admission Hurley made during one of several interviews he conducted with the ...

a symbol of his relationship with referees. But what caught the most attention on social media and elsewhere was an admission Hurley made during one of several interviews he conducted with the ...

Dan Hurley, only 52, is a generationally-accomplished basketball coach. He is also, by his own admission, alternately a brash braggart, a first-team doom-and-gloomer, and a top-tier eccentric.