UConn head coach Dan Hurley offered an expletive-laden explanation as to why he is preventing his players from eating turkey on Thanksgiving. Despite the flowery description, Hurley’s reasoning is beyond idiotic.

Hurley, who is a maniac even by basketball-coaching standards, is forbidding his players from eating turkey—on a day centered mostly on turkey—to avoid any potential sluggishness before their Friday game against Illinois.

The 5th-ranked Huskies are off to a torrid start to the season, but recently lost to Arizona. And Dan is not looking for a repeat performance the day after Thanksgiving against the 13th-ranked Fighting Illini.

“We’re not going to eat the f—ing tryptophan on Thursday and be sluggish as s— on Friday, so we’re going to eat the tryptophan on Wednesday so that all the tryptophan is out of our system by the time we get to MSG,” Hurley told reporters.

Was he kidding? Does he belong in an insane asylum? Well, the answer to those questions might differ.

Dan Hurley is not making sense

Coach Dan Hurley is many things, a lunatic being chief among them, but he is not dumb. The assumption has to be that he’s trying to make a joke here, but being the uncomfortable wacko he is, it’s not coming off right.

Surely he knows the tryptophan thing is a myth that scientists have debunked for years.

Turkey contains about the same amount of tryptophan as chicken, pork, beef, fish, cheese, and many other familiar protein sources (roughly 250–350 mg per 3 oz serving). It’s not unusually high.

His players could have a nice pork chop or two on Thursday and be taking in the same amount.

Turkey isn’t a natural sleeping pill. The post-Thanksgiving nap is caused by the entire feast itself (especially the carbs and sheer volume), not the bird’s tryptophan.

But hey, if this is what motivates his players, good on him.

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Losing his mind

Dan Hurley is clearly a lightning rod. If you’re a UConn fan, you love the guy. For those of us on the outside, he belongs in a straitjacket due to his insufferable antics.

Last year, after his team got dumped from the NCAA tournament by the Florida Gators, the guy went absolutely bonkers on the officiating.

Video footage captured him yelling at security to “get the f— out of my way” as he was being escorted out, a moment that quickly went viral.

“Hope they don’t f— you like they f— us,” Hurley shouted, seemingly in the hopes that Florida’s next opponent would avoid the same fate. “I hope they don’t do that to you, Baylor.”

WARNING: Adult language.

For those who don’t know, that’s a normal day for the coach. This is who he is, how he acts.

Dan Hurley’s behavior on and off the court has often been the center of conversation about the UConn men’s basketball team for years. Sometimes the players’ accomplishments get overshadowed by the temper tantrum-prone coach.

It is an entitled arrogance that undermines his role as a leader and public figure. Maybe he should up his daily tryptophan intake and calm the heck down.