For Star subscribers: If his Sun Devils beat No. 5 Arizona on Saturday, Bobby Hurley’s president, AD and long-suffering fan base won’t care that it has taken him almost eight years to break through.
Greg Hansen Bobby Hurley’s first victory at Arizona State, although unofficial, was his win-the-press-conference address of April 2015.
People are also reading… Imagine what he could do at a Power 5 school. That had to be what the Sun Devil high command was thinking. Hurley has gone 3-11 against Arizona over the most turbulent period of the UA’’s last 40 years. Against the Pac-12’s"Big Three" — Arizona, UCLA and Oregon — the Sun Devils have gone 12-29.Of a possible 141 weeks, ASU has been ranked in the AP Top 25 just 19 times. Arizona? 93.
Hurley inherited a program that had averaged 5,806 fans in 2014-15. This year the Sun Devils, are averaging 6,389.Hurley has not been the Pac-12’s Coach of the Year and he’s not exactly on a trajectory to do so this year: The Sun Devils lost their most recent game, to the San Francisco Dons, 97-60, and Hurley was ejected for yelling at the referees.Usually, a coach gets fired because he doesn’t recruit well enough.
After significant research, I discovered that Hurley is one of just seven first-team AP All-Americans of the last 50 years to become a Division I head basketball coach. Those once-great ballplayers have not been able to duplicate their on-court success as head coaches.It’s not like those seven first-team All-Americans haven’t given coaching their full effort.
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