Chapter 1: What makes Danny Hurley a maniac in basketball?
Speaking of basketball, you sent me something last night that I had either seen and forgotten about or hadn't seen before. So we all know that Danny Hurley is a maniac. We knew that he was a maniac. But the levels of maniac that he is now reaching are things I don't think I've ever seen. Like, honestly. So the getting in the face of the official now, I guess it was, what's his face?
Seth Davis, who has been covering college basketball for a million years. I think you're friends with Seth Davis, right? Yeah, yeah. So he put out that Danny Hurley and this referee have had a long relationship, whatever, so he wasn't really mocking him. He was just being Danny Hurley and just being like, I don't know, celebrating in a weird way.
Chapter 2: How does Danny Hurley celebrate during games?
He didn't see the video. Danny Hurley's jacket is hanging off his shoulder, and he gets into the face of this official and just is like... You know, after the Kane winning shot against Duke. And then he wipes his face with a towel for 45 seconds. Now you think, oh, that doesn't sound like a long time. 45 seconds.
You watch him wipe his face with this towel and his head and his bald head and his neck and everything. The back of his neck and his ears and everything. And then throws it into the crowd, which is one of the more disgusting things I think I've witnessed. And then there was this old 60 Minutes clip that you sent me where...
He is out there and he's burning sage like Kyrie Irving used to burn sage inside the arena at the three-point line and the foul line and all of that. He put garlic bulbs under the basket because he wanted to appease the basketball gods. And the guy who's doing the story at 60 Minutes is like, this is not for show. I asked, and he does this before every game.
Well, you guys would hate that because I know how much you guys hate garlic and the smell of garlic.
Yes. That would be brutal. Absolutely brutal. But, yeah, I mean, he's that nuts. And it's working, and you've got all the respect for him in the world, but I guess I have to give him credit to be that unhinged and still get the job done because the stuff he's doing is not normal.
Well, like I was telling you yesterday, and he even said it, what you don't see is the stuff behind the scenes. how his players respond to him. They're always busting chops, and he's always in their face, and these kids want to be coached hard. Yeah. And he just takes it to another level, and it's one of the reasons why they do win.
I don't know when it will come crashing, burning to the ground, but he is all in. Like, there is a level of in, and then there's all in, and he's at that level. And his kids seem to be at that level, and they seem to react pretty good to him. And I would say that they're probably the third-best team left, but they have a chance to make it to the Final Four because they play the fourth-best team.
Yeah. Yes, you could definitely put it that way. Has there ever been somebody who's been as successful and as crazy? Bobby Knight, maybe not nearly as successful. Was that anger? That was more anger than crazy.
That's the same kind of guy.
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Chapter 3: What unusual rituals does Danny Hurley perform before games?
Every day is a great day for football. The Harbaughs are nuts like that, too.
Yeah.
But you have to be. I'm talking to Frank. You know, over the last couple of weeks, number one, good news for Jeff fans. He's loving every minute of the challenge that is presented in front of him. And I told you when I was down in the DR, we FaceTime him because he was supposed to be on the trip with us. And he's sitting in front of a whiteboard with plays drawn up on it. And I was like, oh, God.
But that's him. He loves it. He's loving every minute of it. He's enjoying it. He's enjoying the challenge. He's enjoying working with Aaron. He's enjoying working with Darren Muji, everybody. I asked him, I said, have you met Woody Johnson yet? He goes, no. Really? Yeah, he hasn't met Woody yet, no. Huh. I thought that was kind of interesting. Where is Woody right now?
I think he's at Phoenix at the owner's meetings. Yeah, I know, but where's he living? I think he's down in Miami. Oh, okay. Or down there in Palm Beach or something. He's got to be around Donald Trump somewhere.
Yeah, I'm not. That is a strange one. You would have figured when he came in. I don't know if he's come here yet.
I don't know when he comes to Jersey or New York. I'm not sure.
Part of me likes that, the fact that he's not that heavily involved and not there in the meetings and interviews and the decisions. Now, obviously, communication these days is so simple, but it is different when you're there face-to-face and you're in the building and you're the owner.
So it means to me that he's trusting and delegating a little bit better than maybe we've heard about in the past.
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Chapter 4: How do players respond to Danny Hurley's coaching style?
He loves a challenge. He loves helping out his buddies. There's a few people with the same resume and situation as him that would end up taking this job, but he's a different type of guy, and he's someone that could have very easily just been enjoying every minute of his life in retirement, but then Andrew Luck calls him up and is like,
I can tell you, Frank doesn't need the money, I can tell you that. And he still had another year left on a contract that Carolina was paying out on. Yeah, that's what I mean. And he actually had two years, so he did the interim thing for Stanford and somehow got that team to beat California, their biggest rival.
And they hadn't beaten them in a while, so that was huge for them as Stanford stormed the field after that game this past year. And then when AG called him up, he was like... You know, I'll consider it. Then he called me. I said, are you out of your mind? Yeah. Couldn't talk him out of it. No, but, you know, when he got the job and we went out to dinner, he was really, really excited about it.
So he seems like he's all in. Well, not seems. He is all in. And he's pretty jacked up right now and pretty excited about the future.
Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of draft picks that should get you excited about the future. The current roster has still got a long way to go.
But if you get Geno Smith from a couple years ago as opposed to last year... Even if you could just cut down on the interceptions. That's all you have to do, just cut down on the interceptions. You've got a good running game. You've got a good, solid offensive line. You've got a No. 1 receiver. You've got a No. 2 receiver. I'm sure they'll add another receiver or a couple receivers.
Whether it be via trade or via free agency or via the draft. There's plenty of wide receivers in this draft where they can pluck one if they want with one of their higher picks. Let's go to Paul in Queens. He wants to talk some football with us.
What's going on, Paul?
What's going on, guys? I love the show. First time caller. Well, first time caller on this show. I just want to talk about the Odell situation, man. When I was in 2016 when Odell was at the top of his game, I loved him so much. But
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