This is an opinion column.

By the time you read this, Danny Hurley may be the head basketball coach of the back-to-back national champion UConn Huskies, as he’s been for the last six years. Or he may be the head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, another misguided soul who bought the fraudulent notion that the grass is greener in the (more) professional version of his sport.

Hurley reportedly interviewed Friday in Los Angeles for the opportunity to caddy for LeBron James. He reportedly went home to mull over an outrageously lucrative offer. He reportedly put the career decision on hold Saturday night to attend a Billy Joel concert in Madison Square Garden.

Which Joel song will turn out to be prophetic in the end? Movin’ Out? Or Say Goodbye to Hollywood?

One thing we know for sure. If Hurley leaves, it will not be “the very end of collegiate sports as we have always known them.”

That was the doomsday conclusion offered by ESPN’s Mike Greenberg at the news that the Lakers were offering Hurley a chance to go to the NBA on the heels of Jim Harbaugh winning the College Football Playoff with Michigan, then departing for the NFL.