UConn’s Hurley vows to bench ‘well-resourced’ NIL players if they don’t perform

In this day and age of NIL payments to college players, coaches want their money’s worth.

So do donors, fans and athletic departments.

UConn coach Dan Hurley underscored that sentiment with his comments following No. 4 UConn’s 110-47 rout of UMass Lowell Friday night.

“To [whom] much is given, much is expected,” Hurley, the Jersey City native and former Seton Hall guard, told reporters . “You know, we invest a lot in these players to come out and perform to their absolute maximum and give everything they got. I mean, these players are very well-resourced.

“I think they owe it to the university. They owe it to each other, they owe it to the coaching staff. They owe it to the fan base. They owe it to the donors. They owe it to a lot of people to go out and play on game night and pr