Bob Hurley
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"Robert Matthew "Bob" Hurley, Sr." is the basketball coach at St. Anthony High School (New Jersey)/St. Anthony High School in Jersey City, New Jersey. Hurley has amassed 27 state championships and more than 1000 wins in 39 years as a coach. On February 2, 2011, Hurley became the tenth coach in high school history to win 1000 games. Five of his teams have gone undefeated, including his 2007–08 team. On April 5, 2010, he was announced as the only coach to be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame that year and only the third high school coach in history to be so honored; he was formally inducted on August 13 of that year. Hurley is the father of Bobby Hurley, a former All-American point guard at Duke and the Head basketball coach at University at Buffalo, and Dan Hurley, who was hired in February 2012 to coach the University of Rhode Island after two years of coaching at Wagner College and nine years coaching at Newark's Saint Benedict's Preparatory School, also one of the top high school programs in the nation.

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I think David is at peace with his own game now. He was too worried about himself and worried about others. He's a very quiet kid who doesn't say much. Maybe early on, he wasn't comfortable being a leader. But I think he feels good about who he is right now.

No doubt, it's on his mind, but he should be fine. He's one of the truly best athletes we've ever had. He's become a leader because he plays so hard and everyone respects him. I think we'll wait until the end of the season to see what he's going to do about college.

He typifies the kind of kids I've been coaching, someone who's a worker rather than someone who's gifted.

He'll do a very good job at practice with the big men at Seton Hall. He knew how to play, and he's going to be able to transfer that to players. Growing up around here and playing at St. Anthony, he'll be able to recruit in the metropolitan area.

From what I can tell, it's a good deal for the city, where we can wind up with four soccer fields replacing one, for instance.

He didn't think he was good enough, and he was ready to give up on himself. The supporting cast around him had a lot of question marks, but we knew what we were getting from Dave. But he wasn't happy with himself.

His self-esteem wasn't high, and he was trying to reflect too much on the things he didn't do well. He had no idea that he was that good of a player. He just needed to be himself. Everything else would have been fine.

That will be matched, we hope, with anywhere from $350,000 to $500,000 of state dollars.