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Dan Hurley Gone ..!!!

It’s hard for him. Surely we understand that. Before long he will crawl again under his little mushroom. Until then, ignore. He is a loser.
 
Kenny11 said:
www.yahoo.com

Mike DiMauro: Is there anybody in charge of Dan Hurley at UConn?

Feb. 23—Winning is the great deodorant, faithfully freshening all that pungency that would otherwise be more odious and obvious with a different outcome. In that spirit, all hail Dan Hurley, the conquering hero. He's winning. Enough said. The Huskies are back, baby, with the only caveat that...
www.yahoo.com www.yahoo.com

Some true stuff in recapping some recent blowups . But too harsh. The stuff about security not having enough balls to eject bouk from the arena was pretty dumb as if bouk committed a crime.
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Simple question
If it was you - Joe Regular fan who kept walking on the court during the game, getting in the refs face at one point and asked to leave - you dont think they would escort you out?
It's one thing to be a true blue fan but c'mon
He got to do his little tour of the student section because of who he is

I dont agree at all that Hurley should have been tossed from the Nova game - not when he was tossed and for the reason. Pure BS by the ref
 
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slepers said:
Uconn -4
Villanova -3


Tell them go home
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Eh, storming the court over a regular season win against #8 in the country is pretty damn lame. I get that most of the students in attendance never experienced the level of success this program was used to, but typically you reserve that kind of response for a game against the #1 team. Not as lame as doing it coming off a national championship against #5 AZ, but still fairly lame
 
Waquoit said:
I remember UNC storming the court when they beat UConn.
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You may be thinking of Michigan. I've seen a couple references to it. UConn was #15 at the time in 2010
 
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navery12 said:
To be fair to Wright, it was not a backcourt violation. Whaley tipped the ball and we got lucky to get the call
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I'd have to see something official, but just having touched it with a finger tip shouldn't be the determining factor. Whaley did not tip the ball into the backcourt. His finger may have grazed the ball as it was 100% going into the backcourt. The way the rule is written in the NBA, it would have to be sent into the backcourt by the tip, which in this case it clearly wasn't.

The NCAA rule is a little more problematic. There are two sections that contradict one another - last touched by the opposing team, not a violation, either team can recover the ball without a violation if the ball was CAUSED to go into the backcourt by the defense.

The spirit of the rule should not be about a ball that may have been grazed by a finger tip.
 
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Deadrody said:
I can only imagine you shrinking violets watching a Calhoun coaching job.
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Calhoun wouldn't have gotten that second tech playing with the crowd. Never would have happened. That is the point. You have to know when the step back.
 
Husky25 said:
Did you feel the same in the 1986 - 2013 timeframe?
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quite often, yes. no need for this type of behaviour from a collegiate coach - or from anyone else, for that matter. cannot fathom anyone being happy with a coach berating players and swearing in front of women and children the way it happened during those years. mistakes happen, but when it becomes a trend, as we are currently witnessing, not so good. again, jmho
 
MilliniumPrince said:
Calhoun wouldn't have gotten that second tech playing with the crowd. Never would have happened. That is the point. You have to know when the step back.
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No coach has ever been t’d up for hyping up the crowd. There is no way Hurley thought he’d be tossed for that. Absolutely no way.
 
AntG168 said:
No coach has ever been t’d up for hyping up the crowd. There is no way Hurley thought he’d be tossed for that. Absolutely no way.
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I was right behind the UConn bench and Hurley was absolutely being a jerk and trying to show up the refs. He wasn’t trying to get the crowd to cheer. He was trying to get them to boo and abuse the refs. Kind of a punk childish thing to do. Might not have been T worthy, but it was borderline. Also, I’ve been to lots of basketball games in my life. I can’t say I have seen a coach do quite what he did. I’ve seen coaches stamp and break clip boards and all manner of thing, but Turing to the crowd and encouraging them to get more abusive? Nope.

Hurley has earned himself a reputation as a hothead and a jerk. Refs in major conferences aren’t putting up with that. When you get that rep, the tendency is going to be to call the T, because refs don’t want to have to deal with childish crap for 40 minutes.
 
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bendm said:
The new London day bahahahah
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Credit where it’s due. It’s better working there than writing periodic high school sports articles for the patch or some other online “publication.” Barely, but definitely better.
 
Deadrody said:
Eh, storming the court over a regular season win against #8 in the country is pretty damn lame. I get that most of the students in attendance never experienced the level of success this program was used to, but typically you reserve that kind of response for a game against the #1 team. Not as lame as doing it coming off a national championship against #5 AZ, but still fairly lame
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I agree, in theory, but in practice? You nailed it, these kids weren’t there for the old success. This was a highly emotionally charged game, where the head coach got tossed and where we beat a top 10 team after being down by four with 26 seconds left. I get kids running on to the court. In the end, I think I’m OK with ruffling the sensibilities of geezers like the two of us so that college kids get the memory of a lifetime. So, again in theory, it was lame, in practice, totally dig it, glad the kids enjoyed it.
 
AntG168 said:
No coach has ever been t’d up for hyping up the crowd. There is no way Hurley thought he’d be tossed for that. Absolutely no way.
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Not true

There is a famous instance where Billy Tubbs - after much crowd display and active ref technicals - got on the arena microphone and said: "No matter how bad the referees are, we are Oklahoma and we should act in a way we should be proud of" ... and they gave him a Technical for that.
 
freescooter said:
I was right behind the UConn bench and Hurley was absolutely being a jerk and trying to show up the refs. He wasn’t trying to get the crowd to cheer. He was trying to get them to boo and abuse the refs. Kind of a punk childish thing to do. Might not have been T worthy, but it was borderline. Also, I’ve been to lots of basketball games in my life. I can’t say I have seen a coach do quite what he did. I’ve seen coaches stamp and break clip boards and all manner of thing, but Turing to the crowd and encouraging them to get more abusive? Nope.

Hurley has earned himself a reputation as a hothead and a jerk. Refs in major conferences aren’t putting up with that. When you get that rep, the tendency is going to be to call the T, because refs don’t want to have to deal with childish crap for 40 minutes.
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He was trying to get them to boo? Dude high fived Cole, smiled, and turned around and raised his arms to pump the crowd up.

Yeah, that just exuded vibes of “Boo this man.” I guess that’s why literally everyone immediately started cheering. They must have missed Hurley’s calculated message. Don’t be ridiculous.
 
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Pudge said:
Not true

There is a famous instance where Billy Tubbs - after much crowd display and active ref technicals - got on the arena microphone and said: "No matter how bad the referees are, we are Oklahoma and we should act in a way we should be proud of" ... and they gave him a Technical for that.
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There's a gap the size of the Grand Canyon between turning around and hyping up the crowd like Hurley, and getting on the microphone and calling out the officials for sucking
 
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I kind of like it. Embrace the "Black Hat" Let's be the "Heels" . Im great with our coach driving referees and opposing fan bases nuts. It’s better than driving us nuts!

I like that we as a fan base are universally hated. It means we are doing some right. Apathy is way worse.
 
2022 NC said:
Here's the thing, if you call that second T on Hurley, then you have to call it every time someone tries to hype up the crowd. If you don't, then you look like you had something personal on him. If you do, we'll then good luck getting any reffing assignment again
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That would be way too logical and consistent; what is more important today is how the ref feels about himself. This along with the continually ridiculous passes afforded to Colin "the steamroller" Gillespie
as he bulldozes his way to the bucket throwing elbows shoulders and forearms without penalty is why the coaches (or AD's) should collectively approach the league office at the end of the season and bring some sanity to some of the ref hypocrisies we (and the entire viewing audience) are now witnessing. Biased referees undermine the entire game itself no matter whose team is getting help or hindered.
The game is bigger than refs, any one player; or coaches. Fair and uniform treatment for every player and team. It's not too much to ask.
 
August_West said:
I kind of like it. Embrace the "Black Hat" Let's be the "Heels" . Im great with our coach driving referees and opposing fan bases nuts. It’s better than driving us nuts!

I like that we as a fan base are universally hated. It means we are doing some right. Apathy is way worse.
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and ,,, for the weary souls who say Calhoun wouldn't do that. Calhoun was universally hated by conference and national fanbases. Not hard to start a conversation with a fan of a opposing team and hearing a 2 minute whine about Jimmy. And WE love him and that. So Danny is in our tradition. As is Mr. Auriemma.
 
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