“You’re a glorified gym teacher”: Dan Hurley’s wife Andrea uses “strange motivational tactics" to boost him up  

In an interview with Graham Bensinger, Dan Hurley touched on the unique methods Andrea Hurley deploys to get him out of bed. The story starts with UConn's February loss to Creighton (85-66). Instead of consoling Hurley the next morning, Andrea unleashed a barrage of jabs.

"You think the next morning she's gonna tell me that it's going to be okay," Hurley said. "She's telling me 'You're a lousy coach, you acted like a baby last night, why don't you take out the garbage because you are no good at coaching," he added.

As the camera cut to Andrea's part of the segment, she continued to give a glimpse of her trash-talk.

"You are a glorified gym teacher," Andrea said. "You go in, you coach games, you don't perform surgery, you don't save lives," she added.

While Andrea Hurley's tactics did get into Dan Hurley's skin, the coach claims that his wife does not comprehend the tasks and details that go into his role at UConn. Moreover, he fires back by claiming that Andrea thinks players decide on plays and shot selection on their own, without proper training, habit-building and scouting.

"She's a complete dope when it comes to this stuff," Hurley said.

Nevertheless, Hurley reveals that his wife's intervention helps him almost immediately and that he needs her perspective now and then to get over a hump.

Andrea Hurley helped Dan Hurley make the Lakers' decision

This summer, one of the biggest storylines included Dan Hurley and the Los Angeles Lakers. Before the NBA franchise hired JJ Redick, it was pursuing the back-to-back NCAA championship coach, offering him $70 million to make the switch.

After Hurley visited Rob Pelinka and other Lakers representatives in Los Angeles, the decision came down to a weekend. Away at their vacation house, Andrea Hurley and Dan Hurley decided to text either “stay” (at UConn) or “go” (with the Lakers’ offer). The idea was to do it several times over the weekend to eventually find common ground.

Nevertheless, Andrea and Dan’s answers matched on Sunday and multiple times on Monday, including the time when Hurley was moments before declaring his final decision.