Referees today

[ucp990411]

The refs today were Pat Driscoll, Earl Walton and Brian O’Connell. Driscoll and Walton are 2 of the best who let the players play. O’Connell (the ref with white hair) is a control freak who calls ticky tack fouls as evidenced by the first foul on Sanogo. He barely touched him and did not impede his movement. When I saw O’Connell was doing the game i immediately thought Adama will have 2 fouls pretty quick. We are a physical team and officiating is very important to how we are allowed to play defense. That being said the players and coaches need to be aware of how the game will be called.

 

[eastern14]

I was at the game and there were a lot of calls that were very soft, to the point that it was hard to tell what had been called. Definitely some home cooking, as before Georgetown started to intentionally foul I believe they led in free throw attempts 35-13, and the game didn't seem like it should have that kind of disparity. Fortunately it didn't matter much in the result.

 

[uconnfan68]

The refs today were Pat Driscoll, Earl Walton and Brian O’Connell. Driscoll and Walton are 2 of the best who let the players play. O’Connell (the ref with white hair) is a control freak who calls ticky tack fouls as evidenced by the first foul on Sanogo. He barely touched him and did not impede his movement. When I saw O’Connell was doing the game i immediately thought Adama will have 2 fouls pretty quick. We are a physical team and officiating is very important to how we are allowed to play defense. That being said the players and coaches need to be aware of how the game will be called.

Where’s BigErn when you need him?

 

[upstater]

I was at the game and there were a lot of calls that were very soft, to the point that it was hard to tell what had been called. Definitely some home cooking, as before Georgetown started to intentionally foul I believe they led in free throw attempts 35-13, and the game didn't seem like it should have that kind of disparity. Fortunately it didn't matter much in the result.

Wow--that's a huge disparity. Refs sending Hurley a message.

 

[WeAreUCONN]

Wow--that's a huge disparity. Refs sending Hurley a message.

Hurley needs to stay in his lane and the coach’s box and keep his volume in check. Tone and volume are extremely crucial factors of communication and clearly Hurley has never learned this as it pertains to the refs. The zebras are in control and not Hurley. Know your role, Danny.

 

[ucp990411]

Hurley needs to stay in his lane and the coach’s box and keep his volume in check. Tone and volume are extremely crucial factors of communication and clearly Hurley has never learned this as it pertains to the refs. The zebras are in control and not Hurley. Know your role, Danny.

The better the ref the thicker his skin is. I wonder how many techs Pat Driscoll has called this year. Be interesting to know how many techs each ref has called. Willing to bet James Breeding is near the top.

 

[alphasigko]

They brought back bad memories of the AAC

 

[coachn]

Hurley needs to stay in his lane and the coach’s box and keep his volume in check. Tone and volume are extremely crucial factors of communication and clearly Hurley has never learned this as it pertains to the refs. The zebras are in control and not Hurley. Know your role, Danny.

When a coach sees an obvious one way disparity in calls its the coaches duty to let the refs know how you feel. I always let the refs know how I felt.

 

[housekeys]

Ask yourselves what JC would do, then do like JC.

 

[Watchdog]

The refs today were Pat Driscoll, Earl Walton and Brian O’Connell. Driscoll and Walton are 2 of the best who let the players play. O’Connell (the ref with white hair) is a control freak who calls ticky tack fouls as evidenced by the first foul on Sanogo. He barely touched him and did not impede his movement. When I saw O’Connell was doing the game i immediately thought Adama will have 2 fouls pretty quick. We are a physical team and officiating is very important to how we are allowed to play defense. That being said the players and coaches need to be aware of how the game will be called.

When I saw the white haired zealot, and his calls, all I could think was it's a Cahill clone.......That guy always seemed to have it in for Calhoun and the Huskies.

 

[MTBingNinja]

The better the ref the thicker his skin is. I wonder how many techs Pat Driscoll has called this year. Be interesting to know how many techs each ref has called. Willing to bet James Breeding is near the top.

I think Kenpom rates the refs

 

[ucp990411]

I think Kenpom rates the refs

I would love to see that. How would I find it?

 

[MTBingNinja]

It’s a feature that you have to pay for on Kenpom. Maybe someone can share it.

 

[drayenob]

Breeding who t'd up Hurley is ranked 20

 

[navery12]

I would love to see that. How would I find it?

Pat Driscoll is #19/200, one spot ahead of old friend James Breeding

 

[RichZ]

The refs today were Pat Driscoll, Earl Walton and Brian O’Connell. Driscoll and Walton are 2 of the best who let the players play. O’Connell (the ref with white hair) is a control freak who calls ticky tack fouls as evidenced by the first foul on Sanogo. He barely touched him and did not impede his movement. When I saw O’Connell was doing the game i immediately thought Adama will have 2 fouls pretty quick. We are a physical team and officiating is very important to how we are allowed to play defense. That being said the players and coaches need to be aware of how the game will be called.

Thanks. Now I have a name to hate him by.
The first genuine, callable fouls Sanogo actually committed was #3.
He was also the one who looked at the monitor and said it didn't change the call on the OOB.

 

[TXHuskyFan]

When I saw the white haired zealot, and his calls, all I could think was it's a Cahill clone.......That guy always seemed to have it in for Calhoun and the Huskies.

Yeah that’s O’Connell. He even looked a bit like Cahill, at least enough that back before we knew who he was, my dad and I used to call him “the look alike” as in the guy that looks like Cahill.

 

[ucp990411]

Funny story about Cahill told to me from a former player. Calhoun was riding Cahill the whole game and Cahill finally had enough and told him to shut up up. Calhoun said ok I’ll shut but is is it ok if I think? Cahill looked at Calhoun dumbfounded and said sure. Calhoun responded with “ok, I think you f….n suck”.

 

[ConnZag3]

I was watching I think it was a Patriot League game on TV last week and one of the refs was John Cahill Jr. Hopefully he never makes it up to Big East level games...

 

[SoFla Steve]

When I saw the white haired zealot, and his calls, all I could think was it's a Cahill clone.......That guy always seemed to have it in for Calhoun and the Huskies.

I'm sure you know that John Cahill is the Big East Supervisor of Officials for men's basketball.