Hurley turned his focus to owning and breeding thoroughbred race horses after retiring, but lost his stables to foreclosure in 2010. In 2010 he joined his brother as a coach for Wagner University and followed him to the University of Rhode Island in March 2012 when he was named the school's head basketball coach. On March 26, 2013, Hurley was named the head coach of the University of Buffalo men's basketball team.