[1] Urgo was born in Washington D.C. the 8th of 10 children to parents originally from Brooklyn; his father attended Fordham.
For college, he attended Fairfield University where he was a dual sport athlete, playing basketball and lacrosse.
[5] He began his coaching career in 2004 as an assistant coach for Gonzaga College High School, his former high school before leaving in 2008 for Villanova, where he started off as a video assistant before becoming the teams director of basketball operations.
[1] In 2012 he was hired by Penn State, where he served as an assistant head coach for 10 years.
On April 28, 2022 Urgo was named the head coach of Fordham following the departure of Neptune to Villanova.