Dan Hurley considered walking away from the UConn men’s basketball coaching job after last season, the two-time national championship winning coach wrote in a new book set to be released later this month, according to The Athletic .

“I thought about leaving. Taking a gap year. Resigning as head coach of the UConn Huskies,” Hurley reportedly wrote. “I knew my mind, and I knew my body, and I could feel that I was completely cooked. Just burnt. I didn’t even know how I was standing.”

Hurley said the angst of losing in agonizing fashion in the second round of the NCAA Tournament to eventual champion Florida , plus the lack of a chance to reset in today’s transfer portal and NIL-driven college sports landscape ate at him.

“I stared at the office walls, muttering, conducting a brutal re

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