BY ALEJANDRO LOPEZ
Eligibility continues to be a controversial topic of discussion in the world of college basketball and college athletics in general.
UConn head coach Dan Hurley couldn’t help but be reminded of a classic 80’s comedy movie.
“I love the movies in the 80s, comedies, obviously you can’t make movies like that now you would get in a lot of trouble but just that reminded me of Back to School at Rodney Dangerfield.”
Back to School is a comedy movie released in 1986 featuring legendary comedian Rodney Dangerfield going back to college as a man later in life in order to encourage his son to do the same.
But what Hurley is comparing the comedy movie to is a very real situation.
Charles Bediako is the latest example of a NBA G-League player joining a college program as a player.
The 23-year-old will suit up for Alabama under head coach Nate Oats and has many head coaches around college basketball giving their opinion on the state of college basketball and the outlook on the sports future.
“If somebody in the Big Ten needs a left tackle or something, can you pull a guy off a practice squad from an NFL team?” Hurley asked.
But for now Hurley plans to focus on what he is doing in UConn and how he is doing it as long as it remains successful.
“We’re just going to do the things we do here at UConn the way that we do them, the way we want to build the program, he said. “We want to recruit high school players, develop them keep them then we want to go into the portal and do what we do there. We are just going to keep doing what we are doing and if at some point the sport has changed so much that you can’t be effective doing that then either I’ll get out of college coaching or I don’t know.”
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