{"id":544082,"date":"2026-01-18T03:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T03:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/544082\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T03:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T03:44:17","slug":"dan-hurley-lets-f-bombs-fly-about-his-chair-in-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/544082\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Hurley lets F-bombs fly about his chair in press conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Connecticut Huskies men\u2019s head basketball coach Dan Hurley is known for his outbursts and fiery personality, but he unleashed expletives for a unique reason after a 64-62 road win over Georgetown on Saturday at Capital One Arena in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 10 seconds after Hurley sat down for his postgame press conference, he had thoughts about the chair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs this f*cking, is this like a kids\u2019 chair? I feel like a f*cking\u2026 I don\u2019t need to be in like a Phil Jackson chair, but, like, what the f*ck?\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dan Hurley didn\u2019t like his postgame presser seat \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs this a f***ing kid\u2019s chair? I don\u2019t need to be in like a Phil Jackson chair, but what the f***?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jCH2sfCXq5\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/jCH2sfCXq5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Field of 68 (@TheFieldOf68) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheFieldOf68\/status\/2012618505032519854?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hurley has had a notable moment in just about every press conference this season. In November, he <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/college-basketball\/dan-hurley-has-some-profane-thoughts-about-thanksgiving.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">had wild thoughts about Thanksgiving<\/a>, and he also <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/college-basketball\/dan-hurley-criticizes-espn-fs1-praises-tnt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">criticized ESPN and FS1 while praising TNT<\/a> for its college basketball coverage. And in December, he asked, <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/college-basketball\/dan-hurley-press-conference-confusion.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u201cWho the f*ck is talking?\u201d<\/a> during a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>So, while Saturday\u2019s outburst was bizarre, if anyone was going to do it, Hurley would be the first guess for most who follow the college basketball world.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no doubt that Hurley gets results on the basketball court, though.\u00a0No. 3 UConn improved to 18-1 with the win.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hurley: \u201cI don\u2019t think we should have our fanbase or anyone nitpicking an 18-1 team\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6VrlnIc08A\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/6VrlnIc08A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Storrs Central (@StorrsCentral) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StorrsCentral\/status\/2012628045174104436?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think we should have our fanbase or anyone nitpicking an 18-1 team,\u201d Hurley, a two-time national champion with UConn, added during the press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connecticut Huskies men\u2019s head basketball coach Dan Hurley is known for his outbursts and fiery personality, but he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,6133,2495,4167],"class_list":{"0":"post-544082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-connecticut-huskies","10":"tag-dan-hurley","11":"tag-georgetown-hoyas"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115914045264510331","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}