Dan Hurley staying at UConn rather than taking the L.A. Lakers job says something important about college sports.

UConn men’s basketball coach Dan Hurley spent the weekend as the subject of an intense courtship by the Los Angeles Lakers. Before Hurley decided his own fate, his impending departure was being treated, in certain corners, as a stinging indictment of what has become of college sports as an institution. Geno Auriemma, from his vantage point coaching the other half of the UConn basketball program, had already decided what it would be all about when Hurley left. “The state of …