UConn's Dan Hurley reportedly to make decision on Lakers job on Monday

Dan Hurley met with his UConn players on Thursday morning and told them he is in talks with the Los Angeles Lakers about their head coaching vacancy, a source told FOX Sports. Hurley's plan is to have his mind made up on the decision weighing on him in the near future, a source said.

The Lakers are seemingly operating on a similar timeline. Hurley was to meet with Lakers owner Jeanie Buss and vice president/general manager Rob Pelinka on Friday, a source confirmed to FOX Sports on Thursday evening.

And on Sunday night, ESPN reported that Hurley planned to make a decision on his future on Monday. According to the report, Hurley said the Lakers made a "compelling case" and presented a "compelling vision" for him to become the team's coach, but the decision was not easy given what he had built at UConn.

After reports surfaced that the Lakers are preparing to offer their head coaching job to the 51-year-old coach of the back-to-back men's college basketball national champions, Hurley didn't want to hide from his players in sharing that the rumors were true. Hurley told his team — which is No. 2 in our FOX Sports Way Too Early Top 25 and trying to become the first program since John Wooden's UCLA teams to 3-peat for a national championship in 2025 — that it's "business as usual" for now. Their practice was scheduled for noon on Thursday in Storrs. 

A source tells FOX Sports that Hurley is "truly at a 50-50" in weighing his decision whether to make the leap up for LeBron James and the Lakers or stay in the college game and try to achieve something unthinkable in the modern era. 

"He deals with things mentally where he's constantly seeking to prove what he can do," a source told FOX Sports.

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