Excerpt from a YouTube video (Fortitude 365) featuring Dan Hurley describing the intense time and emotional investment college coaches make in players within NCAA limits. Hurley emphasizes a family-like program, tough-but-loving coaching, rapid player development, and the short, sprint-like window (months/years) to prepare young men for future success.
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Time. You know, you invest every second that you can in them that the NCAA allows, both on the court, you know, and. And off the court. It truly, you. You just pour everything you have into them. Your family is intertwined with your program, and I think players sense that. They feel that, you know, they're my players will accept the hard coach because. And our staff, because, you know, they know how much we love them. They know how much we're trying to prepare them, toughen them up, teach them, help them grow as men, develop new skills quickly, all those things that are going to add value to their lives. And we're relentless for them. You know, we're literally giving everything we got to them while they're on campus. Now, I wouldn't want to play for me for 10 years, 12 years. I mean, I wouldn't want to play for this staff for 8, 10, 12, 15 years. We go hard for these guys while they're on campus, and that's why I think you see the bond the way it is. It's. In some cases, it's eight months, it's 10 months, it's two or three years. You got to do that at a sprinter's pace because it's such a short window where you're trying to prepare these guys for the rest of their lives, success. The stuff that they need to learn as men.