Loyalty to UConn. Dan stays with us

This most likely will go in either of 2 ways. Either Dan stays long term in UConn and gets deeply-rooted in the culture, like K did at Duke. Or--and I've seen this happen way too often in my own personnel management--within a year or 2, the very idea that other people pursued him to "upgrade" his life and profession begins to gnaw at him, and he takes the next big offer. Given the very little we really know of his values, my bet is on the former. But surprisingly often, the latter is the response.

Frankly, IMO you just don't get it. This is a tight family that appreciates that there are more important things in life than a little extra money. 

You might be right. However he turned down one of the best NBA franchises to ever exist to stay at UCONN. He must love the dairy bar.
This is not the NJ Nets job! This isn’t even a crummy location to live.

I will say I don’t know how effective he would be in the pros. That I will give you.
Hurley’s strength is that he found the secret sauce here at Uconn. I feel like his mantra is built on team first and team chemistry, and that would certainly not be the case in the NBA where he have to cater to big stars with big egos.
So I can see both sides.

I still would’ve found a very difficult to turn down Showtime.

Will never really know what went into his decision.

At the moment, loyalty to UConn is possible and desirable on many levels. It may remain so, or at some point in the future he will consider another offer.

I don't really buy family atmosphere and team and all that - yes, a lot of coaches sell it and mean it and even live it - until they don't. Some have ambitions - for example years ago when Schiano left Rutgers for the NFL. Bad decision, but he went for it. I do see a parallel as some have noted that Hurley's style may not translate to the pros. That was part of Schiano's problem, for sure.

Based on what I hear about the NBA - I wouldn't want to coach there. The players largely drive the bus. Of course, on the other hand, in college you are dependent on the whims of teenagers and NIL providers.

Good thought! I tend to think loyalty to UConn. But there's a commentator on ESPN who voiced surprise that the LA offer was actually lower than he thought and that, if LA had made a horsehead-in-the-bed kind of offer, it might have been different. I agree that LA didn't make that kind of offer (not necessarily that Dan would have taken it). Between the cost-of-living delta and in his tax bracket, the difference between what he's making now and what LA offered isn't what creates significantly greater generational wealth. 

   First and foremost, Hurley is a coach. At UConn he has control of his team. In the NBA, accountants and media consultants pick players who rarely stay for more than 2-3 years.  
   Around 1960, the NY football Giants needed a new head coach. NY was the top franchise and yet both Tom Landry and Vince Lombardi, Giant assistants at the time, turned down the top job in the NFL to go to Green Bay and the new franchise in Texas because they would have total control, something that was not going to happen in NY where the owner was the defacto GM. Their decisions put them on MT. Rushmore while Allie Sherman, the 3rd assistant who took the NY job, spent most of his career getting booed for the owners' bad decisions. 

  If I was making $100K and someone offered me $5M I'd say to hell with what I love, give me the money. But if I was making $7M and loved what I did, $11M to babysit inflated egos that you don't even get to pick wouldn't seem nearly as appealing.  
    

   It's also possible that Hurley intended to use the Laker offer as leverage in contract negotiations and had already decided to stay at UConn. A brilliant move if true. I was involved in several labor contract negotiations and never once did the governor call to insure that we would be taken care of and made the highest paid employees in the country.