Facing Financial Crisis, Bob Hurley Says St. Anthony’s May Have to ‘Reinvent’ Itself a la Rival St. Patrick’s

After all the epic battles that St. Anthony’s and St. Patrick’s staged over the years across the New Jersey basketball scene, it would be more than ironic if St. Anthony’s now followed St. Patrick’s lead and transitioned from a Catholic school to a private one.

Yet if you listen to Bob Hurley as he attempts to save St. Anthony’s from its latest — and perhaps greatest — financial crisis, it sounds like that is a path he and the school are considering.

“We’re going to come up with a plan,” Hurley said during a recent interview with WFUV. “Will it be the plan to sustain it through whoever replaces me in the future? I don’t know about that. But I think we could probably reinvent ourselves somewhat like The Patrick School did and still be able to give an affordable education to a kid in the inner-city that stimulates them to be perhaps better than their counterparts.”