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It’s hard to be that unprepared for a game.

Am I pissed? Yes. Do I think Hurley should be fired? No. Do I think Hurley needs to improve on the offensive end? Yes. Is this team lacking in players who can create shots for themselves? Yes.

We need some playmakers. Hopefully we get that next year with Sool, CFJ, Hawkins, and Karaban.

Tremendous playmaker coming in 2023 with Castle, but we’ve got to find some offense next year.
 
metsfan2323 said:
Nope, sorry you're wrong. Having talent and more talent on the way and being known as a good recruiter gets a coach plenty of equity. Nobody wins without the ability to recruit.
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If only Hurley had Chris Jans kind of equity because he won today. The only thing that builds equity is winning. Otherwise it's all just hot air.
 
TheRealKBuks said:
I mean this sincerely, I (and the overwhelming majority of us) have been patient since 2016... how much more patience can we reasonably expect from this fan base.
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This is what a rebuild is suppose to look like.

We were ranked for a majority of the season and received the highest seed since 2010-2011 and went to the tournament back-to-back seasons in the first time in 10 years. This is Danny’s 4th year at UConn and 1 of those 4 years there wasn’t a tournament.

We are back to relevance which is something you need to consider since we were a joke prior to him being here.

Stop getting emotionally tied down after a loss and be patient with the rebuild process.
 
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nycscooby said:
Give this squad to any number of other coaches in the BE let alone the country and we have a far better result this season.

I get the feeling that Hurley thinks this was a 4-5 year rebuild or that is what he and the administration settled on? He has constantly spoken about how much the team stunk and the state of the program when he got here. He is content with the progress, focusing on identity of our play, restoring our identity, etc. all of which is important but I don’t sense the urgency from him which conflicts with what our fanbase wants. He is saying just wait until
I get a fuller roster with all the tools (how often has he spoken about missing a scoring wing this season?) and then see what I can do?

What bothers me most about Dan Hurley are (1) you can’t take the long view on the program, you must adjust and squeeze every ounce out of your roster you can for the now and you can live with the results, and (2) in big games/moments he gets tight and his team plays tight almost all the time, and (3) he is stubborn and seems to refuse to make adjustments.
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He should take his stubbornness to the other stubborn hall of famers and accept his padawan training. Benedict should demand intense training by daddy Hurley geno and jc
 
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Austin316 said:
This is what a rebuild is suppose to look like.

We were ranked for a majority of the season and received the highest seed since 2010-2011 and went to the tournament back-to-back seasons in the first time in 10 years. This is Danny’s 4th year at UConn and 1 of those 4 years there wasn’t a tournament.

We are back to relevance which is something you need to consider since we were a joke prior to him being here.

Stop getting emotionally tied down after a loss and be patient with the rebuild process.
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Not disagreeing with you that this is what rebuilds should like, but this is still disappointing. When Hurley was hired I think we all expected to be further along than this, and by further along I mean winning a single NCAA tournament game in 4 years.

We're back to relevance but from a national standpoint that is fleeting. It's sad but true, the national media likes winners. We need to win games in March.

On the contrary I'm not emotional at all, I'm actually being very rational. My emotional side is that UConn is capable of winning a national championship every year.
 
UncleSpliff said:
The same team that got beat by a team called “Sam Houston st” by 40 points is better than us? I think not….
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They were better than us today.

They shot 11-17 (65%) against us from three, and 13-13 (100%) from the FT line. Those numbers are ridiculously good. Give them credit. There's not a team in college that is capable of averaging anywhere in that neighborhood. Heck, there isn't a team in the NBA that averages anywhere in that neighborhood.

Against Sam Houston, they shot 22% from three and ~60% from the line. The Sam Houston version of New Mexico State is not better than us. But the version we saw today was.
 
HuskyHawk said:
Akok was better than polley today.
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Bwahahahaha. That over the back foul and then the goal tend must have really impressed you prior to the toe-on-the-line 2 pointer. Amazes me the lengths you will go to in order to knock Polley and generate infinite false narratives about the guy’s play. I imagine you will trash him next season, even when he isn’t on the roster. You lose a ton of credibility with these over-the-top anti-Polley takes.
 
PNolanFan said:
Hurley needs to prove it in big games but it is common for coaches to stink in big games for a while until they figure it out (calhoun, wright, bennett, ect.) not saying hurley will get there but those guys were all there at one point or another
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That’s a fair observation but the big games that JC didn’t close were in the Sweet 16 by comparison.
 
shizzle787 said:
He has lost as many times in the first round as Calhoun did in 25 years.
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you are not wrong... this is becoming a pattern, where with calhoun winning in the 1st round was the norm.

Everyone preaching patience.. but the fact is Danny has never gotten to the second weekend. Wagner, URI and arguably his best team with Uconn this year.

Everyone has a right to be frustrated. KO drove this program into the ground and Danny go us back to being relevant. But tournament success speaks.. And I do not hear. A single. peep.
 
That Guy said:
Needs to start recruiting shooters. Hurley's style is too old school for the modern game. The fact is that everyone on the floor in today's game needs to be a threat from the 3 point line and we're the complete antithesis of that.
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Teams like Gonzaga, Baylor and Villanova have 4-5 shooters on the floor most of the time. This year our starting line up had maybe 2 with RJ and Rese.
 
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VAHuskyFan said:
They were better than us today.

They shot 11-17 (65%) against us from three, and 13-13 (100%) from the FT line. Those numbers are ridiculously good. Give them credit. There's not a team in college that is capable of averaging anywhere in that neighborhood. Heck, there isn't a team in the NBA that averages anywhere in that neighborhood.

Against Sam Houston, they shot 22% from three and ~60% from the line. The Sam Houston version of New Mexico State is not better than us. But the version we saw today was.
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The quote was that New Mexico St is a better team than UConn. By any metric you want to look at that is erroneous. Yea they shot out of their tonight but that was 1 game. 1 game doesn’t make you a better team…
 
NYtoCT said:
Am I pissed? Yes. Do I think Hurley should be fired? No. Do I think Hurley needs to improve on the offensive end? Yes. Is this team lacking in players who can create shots for themselves? Yes.

We need some playmakers. Hopefully we get that next year with Sool, CFJ, Hawkins, and Karaban.

Tremendous playmaker coming in 2023 with Castle, but we’ve got to find some offense next year.
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I’m excited for all the young guys to get serious minutes. I think Samson could very well be the best of that group. If he can develop a decent jumper to stretch the floor and a few post moves he’ll compliment Adama nicely. Hawkins and Karaban can hopefully fill the Tyrese and Polley roles. Then I hope CFJ and Sool are ready and push Gaffney.
 
UConnJim said:
The UConn program that Hurley inherited was not healthy even though UConn had a history and good facilities. Not only was the recent win/loss record and recruiting poor, UConn was playing in the AAC vs. Calhoun playing in the Big East.

Look at the rosters the 2 inherited when they were hired. Calhoun inherited Robinson and Gamble, a freshman Tate George, and Gerry Besselink who average a double double at center. Two of those guys were drafted by the NBA. Sure, Robinson and Gamble ran into academic problems year 1, but they came back in year 2. Assuming Polley, Whaley, and Carlton don't get drafted, Hurley did not inherit any NBA talent. And his first year roster had 2 Community College and 4 college transfers. In other words, Hurley's first roster was a mess.
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This is really silly. Calhoun was taking over a regional program and quickly turned them into a national power. He was the national coach of thr year his 4th season and was Tate George holding onto the ball away from the final 4. Hurley took over a beleaguered national power and in his 4th year lost first round to a 12 seed.

I don't know why people keep bringing up Calhoun and Jay Wright as some sort of comparison to Hurley.
 
Skiblets said:
We’re talking about NMSU like they’re Auburn for chrissakes Seems like when a team has one weapon, a guy making $3m per year could gameplan against him with a team full of upper class men. Horrible loss.
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Correct. We beat shaq!!!
 
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What happened out there tonight?

The pressure is only going to build from here…… they were so bad in the first half.

Fortunately, that was actually an improvement with the same result compared to last year. They were garbage the entire game last year.

Time for a very angry sleep.
 
metsfan2323 said:
Don't want him gone anyway. He's a good coach and he will fix this.

0 - 2 in the tournament as our coach is not a big enough sample size to come to the conclusion that he can't win here.
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Let's remember that in his first five years at Duke, K didn't get them into the tourney until his 4th year, where as a 3 seed they lost their first game to the 6 seed (field was 48). In second year, also as a 3 seed, Duke did beat the 14 seed, but then lost to the 11 seed in 2nd game.
 
MervthePurvis said:
Ollie was 2-0 in first round games. This should be fun.
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and then failed to qualify three years in a row as the roster went to shiite, players transferred and the NCAA came a calling. No doubt Hurley will meet the same fate if he doesn't qualify the next three years.
 
SwingDog said:
A prepared UConn team doesn't score 22 points in the first half and find themselves down 10 points.
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lower seeded teams are always outperforming some higher seeds every year. Doesn't mean their coaches didn't prepare them. Some teams and players just create the Magic for March Madness. Uconn just happened to be another giant knocked down. Unfortunately, we were outplayed and out coached. But mostly, out played
 
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The only success Hurley had at URI was with a jacked senior led team that under-performed all season until they got hot in the A10 and NCAAs. Hurley is not a big game prep coach.

If he were a good preparation coach he would have had much more success in the AAC. He can recruit but he cannot prepare very well. Biggest win of this season was vs Nova when he wasn't even on the court.
 
If only Hurley was a good enough coach to get his team who shot 30% from 3 all year to suddenly shoot 67% on 18 attempts…

They got hot at the right time, it happens. We tip the hat and move on.
 
shizzle787 said:
There is something called transfer portal. This is 2022, not 2018. Every player in America is effectively a free agent at the end of every year. We can make a better team through transfers.
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How more ppl don't see this is beyond me. Gone are the days of hoping to mold freshman or recruit a once every decade game changing recruit chooses your school. Every mid major underclassman is playing to move up in competition. There will be proven, game ready players every year to go out and recruit. The college game is changing quickly.
 
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