Anthony’s in Jersey City, and her brother-in-law is former Duke star and current coach of Arizona State, Bobby Hurley. Her father-in-law is Hall of Fame coach Bob Hurley, who spent decades at now shuttered St. It’s just not going to happen.”īut she married into one of basketball’s most high-profile dynasties. It’s like asking my husband to learn to knit. Stefano GiovanniniĮven though hers is a hoops household - her youngest son, Andrew, is a walk-on at UConn - she has “zero interest in the game. Andrea Hurley, wife of UConn head coach Danny Hurley, has a new podcast about what it’s like to be married to the game. She said the show will appeal to anyone involved in sports or coaching at any level and it won’t just be wives. She hopes to interview spouses of pro players plus college hoops “matriarchs” such as Mickie K and Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim’s better half, Juli, who taught her by example that hoop wives don’t have to be “wallflowers and sit around.” On deck for future podcasts are Kathy Auriemma, the wife of UConn women’s coach Geno Auriemma - “Kathy’s from Philly and curses a lot,” Andrea teased - as well as Pat Calhoun, whose husband is former UConn men’s coach Jim Calhoun, and even Andrea’s mother-in-law, Christine Hurley, herself a sports wife. “And then I started to laugh, thinking, ‘Is Mickie K sliding onto the floor after her husband leaves for a game?’ I need to know these things.” “I slid down the door, and I was shaking,” she said. Andrea had a near meltdown recently when her husband broke his ritual of dressing at the arena and came home instead to change. She told The Post how tensions in her household are running high right now, with every game a must-win as UConn is on the bubble to make the NCAA tournament. Her first guest was her hubby, and they rehashed fights over long work hours and how she humanizes him to his players who, he admitted, see him as an intense “cyborg.” According to Andrea, no topic is off-limits - even if it’s embarrassing. With her pal’s encouragement, in February Andrea launched “Ball is Wife,” a weekly iHeart Radio podcast that offers an unvarnished look at what it’s like to be married to sports. “Nicole said to me, ‘We need to start a podcast.’ I said, ‘That would be fun! What the hell is a podcast?’ ” “Coaching is such a brutal, cut-throat job, and I had so many questions” - about things like how to approach team losses, dealing with nasty fans on social media and acting as a second mother to young players. “We’re all in the same boat,” said Andrea, 44. The two women became fast friends, and Hurley realized her “enemies” could be allies and resources. (At the time, Danny was at the University of Rhode Island, making the two conference rivals.) That changed a few years ago when she met Nicole Kellogg, whose husband, Derek, was then coaching at UMass. Their team can cause you major anxiety - especially if you lose, it can turn your household’s mood to s – – t.” “It’s so easy to not like your opponent’s wife. “When you play somebody, they are your enemy,” Andrea, who is married to UConn head coach Danny Hurley, told The Post. Rangers add another name to coaching searchįlorida youth basketball coach vanishes without a trace while joggingĬoach rips Deion Sanders for exploiting transfer portal: ‘Looks bad’Īs the wife of a Division I college basketball coach, Andrea Hurley long avoided the significant others of her husband’s competitors. 76ers hiring NBA champion coach in latest offseason domino
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