🏀 How UConn's Dan Hurley Forged His Own Path

The coach stepped out of his father's shadow to chase greatness. [View in browser]( [FOX SPORTS INSIDER WITH MARTIN ROGERS] In today’s FOX Sports Insider with Martin Rogers: Dan Hurley has followed his father’s path with his relentless nature giving his team that very same quality … The Eagles lost a lot of pieces, while the Cowboys made some additions, but who controls the division? … and more! Dan Hurley's path to this – two games away from a national championship and a comprehensive favorite to achieve it – began by wanting to be like his dad. The UConn head coach rarely thought of things like Final Fours years ago, when his idea for an ideal career was to mirror his old man, which meant to coach high school hoops and do it really, really well. As the Huskies have stormed their way through the tournament and made a mockery of their 4-seed, even in a year filled with upsets, it has grown ever clearer that the latest edition of UConn is flexing its way out of the Big East and is an intricate reflection of its coach. The group is relentless because Hurley is relentless, because his life has been basketball, lived and breathed, all the time, for how could it be any other way when your father is Bob Hurley, New Jersey coaching legend, and one of the few high school coaches to be enshrined in the Naismith Hall of Fame. In the Hurley family, the cells are made up of protons and electrons and microscopic basketballs, and Bob's decades-long devotion to the craft reached a wider audience, finally, when Adrian Wojnarowski wrote "The Miracle of St. Anthony" in the mid-2000s. For all his Wojbombs and breaking-news tweets and draft-day reveals, that book might be the most singularly beautiful piece of writing from Wojnarowski, a tour de force deserving of the big screen. It is about a group of gritty young men from the toughest part of a tough city – Jersey City – who came to an underfunded prep school run by two Felician nuns to be drilled in the fine arts of basketball by an iconic coach. Bob Hurley. For the rest of the story, [click here.]( [STORY IMAGE 1] [IN OTHER WORDS] - The Eagles have lost seven starters this offseason while the Cowboys add key pieces. So at this point, [who's the beast]( of the NFC East? Ralph Vacchiano breaks down the division and their offseason moves. - He's back. 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