What is your take on Hurley and the Refs?

[YearoftheHusky]

Ask him about the circus Urban Meyer ran at UF and what he allowed guys like Aaron Hernandez to get away with. Lmao

Fair, but also not my point.

 

[TheHorde]

Fair, but also not my point.

I understand. My point is that there’s lots of pearl clutching going on about Hurley’s antics being bad for college sports when we have stuff like that UF stuff and brawls on the field after the OSU Michigan game being broken up by police with pepper spray. In reality, it’s not even in the top 20 things that’s bad about college sports.

 

[YearoftheHusky]

I understand. My point is that there’s lots of pearl clutching going on about Hurley’s antics being bad for college sports when we have stuff like that UF stuff and brawls on the field after the OSU Michigan game being broken up by police with pepper spray. In reality, it’s not even in the top 20 things that’s bad about college sports.

Agreed. But it’s, in my opinion, not a look I like associated with my favorite team.

 

[TheHorde]

Agreed. But it’s, in my opinion, not a look I like associated with my favorite team.

Do you think we would have seen a more and potentially much more subdued Hurley if not for the T called on his trainer? I think so. I think it really set him off. And would never have been called on a team coached by Coach K, Belichick, or Andy Reid. I get that refs are people and have feelings and egos too. But they are also professionals whose performances are allegedly being graded and scored for future assignments. That job is clearly not being done properly. And it’s hurting the sport.

 

[Chief00]

I only thought the Memphis game was the one that the refs arguably helped cost UConn the game. Hurley is not looking to be “catered to”. He wants the same respect afforded to his team in the way they’re officiated that Coach K got with Duke in the early 90s, Belichick and the Patriots got in the early 2000s, and Andy Reid and the Chiefs get these days. None of those other 3 organizations would have had a game deciding call made on their coach in a spot where a ref could have ignored it, and none would have had their teams penalized for what a trainer muttered in a team huddle.

What did the trainer mutter in team huddle?

 

[Chief00]

He's 52 years old, right? By this point he has to understand you don't get respect unless you give it.

It's one thing to hoot and holler at the refs. I like that. It's another to make it personal like Hurley does.

And frankly... scream all you want coach. Really. But don't act surprised when it bites you in the ass

Then why does the ref wait until 1 minute left in Overtime if Hurley had been screaming and acting like that all game? It doesn’t make sense, the narrative you are pushing. I would be fine with sending Hurley a message in the first half or early second half / but to take a demeanor going on all game and only penalize it when it decides the game in OT is totally crazy.

 

[TheHorde]

What did the trainer mutter in team huddle?

Allegedly something along the lines of that was a bad call, but with vulgarity.

 

[Hunt for 7]

The more I have thought about it….after the ridiculous T against Memphis….it not only cost us the game but it created a snowball effect. Those kids worked their behinds off to send it to OT and then their coach took it away from them.

I am watching his interview, he would be so much better off taking accountability in the media on why we lost the first game. It was not a 10 hour plane ride from home. Rather it was the head coach doing something like Roscoe Smith heaving the ball from three quarter court with 10 seconds left. He is trying to pretend it did not happen.

He should be going on podcasts getting on social and actually not only apologize to the players but to the fans. He changed the trajectory of the whole tournament.

His behavior took a young team and crushed their confidence. I really hope he apologized to them after that game. He should have because if it was a player we would expect them to be accountable…..he acts like his behavior was justified.

Beside that, we really are a bad defensive team. Our guards are not capable of keeping their man in front of them. And for someone like Ball with all that athletic ability yet he cannot stay in front of the guards from MES. It was like he was trying to cover Kyrie Irving for goodness sake.

Unless he figures out how to get these guys to play defense they will be a bubble team. He clearly over corrected on how important the offense is and just thought he could teach them defense.

Can anyone think of any UConn team under Hurley that was this bad defensively.

And just to be clear I would not trade him for any other head coach. But I would trade in the sideline antics doesn’t he realize his has to be above that now!

 

[Woof 101]

Many here, if you are truly UConn fans, need to wake up. Hurley was right the Driscoll crew screwed his team as did the crews that followed. The reporting both locally and nationally was one sided and very poor about what actually happened.
As you guys know, it’s not only the # of foul shots but foul trouble, screwed up rotations and chemistry.

So you are just fine with a 40-24 foul shot discrepancy, and a ref compounding a terrible call by calling a technical when it was criticized. This led to a 98 to 48 foul shot margin over 3 games or 50 shots - clearly insanity in itself.
As for Driscoll history and attitudes, I know what I am talking about.

Insanity is not having watched the games or having done so and not realizing just how out of control Dan was. Respectfully in my opinion he should have been tossed a couple times. Officials have whistles, Dan has a very slanderous mouth that will lose to a whistle every time.
No rocket science here, he was a total azhole and did nothing but get the officiating he asked for. That letting the team down.

Was it my imagination or did Coach Hurley tone it down considerably for the Dayton game? Maybe he's gotten the message. Or someone has given him The Word.

Yes he did, DB may have sent him a message.

Then why does the ref wait until 1 minute left in Overtime if Hurley had been screaming and acting like that all game? It doesn’t make sense, the narrative you are pushing. I would be fine with sending Hurley a message in the first half or early second half / but to take a demeanor going on all game and only penalize it when it decides the game in OT is totally crazy.

It's called sending a message and out smartening the coach. We eject him early and a well rounded assistant with respect for officials steps in, plays a bit of a different line up may win the game. Punish Dan and UConn with another lose for his behavior.
We got what Dan brought to that tournament and less....

 

[superjohn]

The comments are a bit strange from coach...





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[HooperScooper]

The comments are a bit strange from coach...





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When did you start being able to embed tweets? I remember you saying it wasn't working for you.

 

[Hunt for 7]

The comments are a bit strange from coach...





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Again no accountability. This is just such a bad position to take. For goodness sake admit you made a mistake. Until he accepts that and shows the team he is remorseful for losing it at that point in the game, it will be hanging in the air just creating an unneeded environment.

 

[Hunt for 7]

I'm fine with him "behaving badly" on the court. It's better than having a drunk driving Mark Few or woman beater Chris Beard as coach.

Wow that is some take. My choice is I would rather not have a coach get a T in OT when his team is up 2 points. And I get it with Beard but Mark Few is not a jerk.

 

[87Xfer]

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Yep. Not a good look.

 

[Chief00]

Insanity is not having watched the games or having done so and not realizing just how out of control Dan was. Respectfully in my opinion he should have been tossed a couple times. Officials have whistles, Dan has a very slanderous mouth that will lose to a whistle every time.
No rocket science here, he was a total azhole and did nothing but get the officiating he asked for. That letting the team down.

Yes he did, DB may have sent him a message.


It's called sending a message and out smartening the coach. We eject him early and a well rounded assistant with respect for officials steps in, plays a bit of a different line up may win the game. Punish Dan and UConn with another lose for his behavior.
We got what Dan brought to that tournament and less....

So you are saying a ref should actively scheme to have UConn lose the game rather than fairly call balls and strikes (fouls) in basketball. I understand now why you support Driscoll.

 

[Husky Alien]

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Why would you make that public? Just do it. Adds more fuel to the fire. Sounds like sour apples to me.

 

[mrl2016]

Again no accountability. This is just such a bad position to take. For goodness sake admit you made a mistake. Until he accepts that and shows the team he is remorseful for losing it at that point in the game, it will be hanging in the air just creating an unneeded environment.

The officials should admit they made a mistake

 

[StllH8L8ner]

What did the trainer mutter in team huddle?

“You smell like beef and cheese”.

 

[TheHorde]

The officials should admit they made a mistake

These folks will never admit that K, Belichick, Andy Reid types get or have gotten different types of officiating from the zebras. Hurley has been relatively calm the past couple of years. The T on the trainer clearly set him off. Why are the refs getting a free pass from some on the boards? Can they not see or are they unwilling to admit a different tier of officiating exists? And are they okay with that?

 

[NJHusky]

Allegedly something along the lines of that was a bad call, but with vulgarity.

But he said it in the huddle, not to the ref, right? That’s an overly sensitive ref

 

[TheHorde]

But he said it in the huddle, not to the ref, right? That’s an overly sensitive ref

That was my understanding. So it’s not demonstrable in front of the crowd. And my understanding was that it wasn’t loud enough to even be audible in the crowd. That’s not a time to grow rabbit ears. You can say all you want “you can’t do that”. But go back and watch tape of the 2004 Final Four between Duke and UConn. Watch the last minute of the game and tell me K didn’t deserve a T there. Good refs look the other way when it’s warranted to not spoil a great game. I would argue in that spot they could have and should have looked the other way. I’d argue that call set Hurley off for the rest of the tournament and he felt it wasn’t worthy of the respect a two time defending champ should get. We all know that NO Coach K team would have gotten a T there. End of story.

 

[Scoe]

But he said it in the huddle, not to the ref, right? That’s an overly sensitive ref

It's amazing people here still don't see that I still wanna know what was actually said. Just unprofessional behavior for an official, Hurley btw didn't go off in the next 2 games. Officials have way too much power.

 

[JMick]

It's amazing people here still don't see that I still wanna know what was actually said. Just unprofessional behavior for an official, Hurley btw didn't go off in the next 2 games. Officials have way too much power.

They have too much unchecked power.

Officiating is getting worse in every sport. And it's not just because we can see things on replay now. It's a skill that's going away and the people in charge of training these guys and monitoring these guys have failed. Rules committees have failed. Something needs to be done

 

[TheHorde]

They have too much unchecked power.

Officiating is getting worse in every sport. And it's not just because we can see things on replay now. It's a skill that's going away and the people in charge of training these guys and monitoring these guys have failed. Rules committees have failed. Something needs to be done

I’m surprised in the era of widespread online gambling and gaming sites even advertising on these games that the NCAA offices allows this to go on. It really calls into question the integrity of the game when personal vendettas can affect the outcomes.

 

[Scoe]

They have too much unchecked power.

Officiating is getting worse in every sport. And it's not just because we can see things on replay now. It's a skill that's going away and the people in charge of training these guys and monitoring these guys have failed. Rules committees have failed. Something needs to be done

Just looking at it out of the lenses of a general sports fan it's definitely true and not talked about enough and no one on this board cares.