I’ve defended Hurley thus far

[UofCT]

And we have posters acting like we’re final four bound after beating LIU and Grambling. I agree the fire Hurley posters are way too much, but the criticisms after losses are fair. Especially when the issues have been talked about for awhile now. I’d wait to mock them until after the season bc it was a good win tonight but it was one after getting throughly embarrassed at Nova and at home vs Creighton.

We didn’t get embarrassed. Villanova and Creighton both played well. It’s not a big deal at all.

 

[Pudge]

... and that Marquette team is an impressively structured tough group of talent. Shaka Smart is an impressive coach; thrilled to have him in the big East. One night UCONN came together to play. The bottom line is college basketball builds season after season through peaks and valleys to a March. We shall know more about this 2021-2022 UCONN team and program and Hurley over the coming weeks. How exciting ...

 

[CL82]

This is the reality. He could nosedive for the next 2-3 years and the university doesn't have the financial wherewithal to get rid of him. Because of the extention we're stuck with him, for good or bad.

Well given that the university has $385 million in cash and cash equivalents, it certainly has the “wherewithal” to “get rid of him”, not that anyone in their right mind thinks that’s a good idea.

 

[Travelman6]

With the talent on this roster, yes, the record could and probably should be better by at least two games but how easily we forget, there are some or even a lot of coaches who would be doing worse (or a lot worse) with this roster....Hurley will get it together, I really do think.

Let's see where UConn is in 2025. If they are still having these 15-7/16-6 type starts time to start asking questions. We seem to be in this position the past few years, lets's get over the hump. Would like to see a 18-4/19-3 start or something like that next year.

 

[Umami Zen]

Lets take this show on the road and grab a big Quad One road win on Friday

 

[businesslawyer]

We didn’t get embarrassed. Villanova and Creighton both played well. It’s not a big deal at all.

Nor

And we have posters acting like we’re final four bound after beating LIU and Grambling. I agree the fire Hurley posters are way too much, but the criticisms after losses are fair. Especially when the issues have been talked about for awhile now. I’d wait to mock them until after the season bc it was a good win tonight but it was one after getting throughly embarrassed at Nova and at home vs Creighton.

There are issues because our overall roster is still not good enough to compete for a championship. Too many holes. Not enough actual depth, measured in players who can come off the bench and contribute today and not what their recruiting profile was while in high school. However, as the roster on paper has gotten better every year, as have the results, over the top criticism at this point is absurd.

If we stop getting better before we’ve gotten where we want to be, then serious complaints are in order. Until then, Monday morning quarterbacking where we pretend we know that time outs are called at the right moment or players we haven’t seen enough of to have an opinion on should be playing — criticisms that come with watching sports — is fine, but it should be within reason and with acceptance that coaching is an art, not a science.

 

[YellowMamba]

Complaining and being ungrateful is part of human nature. We are not seeing anything out of the ordinary here. It's pathetic but most people can't help it.

 

[HooperScooper]

We didn’t get embarrassed. Villanova and Creighton both played well. It’s not a big deal at all.

Don’t make excuses like this. Creighton did not play well. UConn shot horribly that game. It was an awful loss and will continue to look like an awful loss.

 

[Mike1984]

Don’t make excuses like this. Creighton did not play well. UConn shot horribly that game. It was an awful loss and will continue to look like an awful loss.

So to your point being that we shot horribly, how is that Hurleys fault?

 

[giddyup]

So to your point being that we shot horribly, how is that Hurleys fault?

Hurley made adjustments last night and had a plan to push the floor and crash the boards. When you don’t shoot well that’s what you do, you exploit numbers, look to get to the hoop and commit to the glass. The other games he was a deer in the headlights. Guy is still learning to apply what he knows in real time. All things are the coach’s fault if they are not in a position to maximize chances of success.

 

[BlueMAB]

Why do people think we'll miss the tournament because we lost on the road AT freaking Villanova.

Os it because we lost 2 games in a row?

Here's a list of teams in the Big East that have not lost 2 games in a row this season:
Providence.

End of list.

Here's a list of teams that have had 5-game winning streaks in conference play this season:
Providence
Villanova
UConn

Does that make you feel better?

Yes.
/end thread.

 

[UofCT]

Don’t make excuses like this. Creighton did not play well. UConn shot horribly that game. It was an awful loss and will continue to look like an awful loss.

Cry about it then. It happens to every team every season.

 

[YellowMamba]

"I agree the fire Hurley posters are way too much, but the criticisms after losses are fair" If those criticisms are fair then the criticisms of criticisms after losses are certainly fair as well...To act like we know better than the coach is being delusional