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.
What is your take on Hurley and the Refs?
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Allegedly something along the lines of that was a bad call, but with vulgarity.
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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!
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!
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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....
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When did you start being able to embed tweets? I remember you saying it wasn't working for you.
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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.
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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.
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Yep. Not a good look.
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.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....
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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.
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The officials should admit they made a mistake
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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?
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.
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.
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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.
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.
People on this board are just running and running on their anti Hurley narrative rather than just calling into question what actually happened.
Let's say you go to a restaurant you sit down let's say your waiter goes up to your table and tells you "can you shut your kid up" now don't get mad be professional.
The waiter does have a lot more power in that situation then you do, you could go up to a supervisor and say something it turns into a she said he said situation there's no proof. If you get a new waiter/waitress or just walk out the mood is already ruined along with your family's mood no matter how the night ends.
Let's say you go to a restaurant you sit down let's say your waiter goes up to your table and tells you "can you shut your kid up" now don't get mad be professional.
The waiter does have a lot more power in that situation then you do, you could go up to a supervisor and say something it turns into a she said he said situation there's no proof. If you get a new waiter/waitress or just walk out the mood is already ruined along with your family's mood no matter how the night ends.
Hurley to my recollection had no major blowups with the officials the past couple of years. Is that accurate? If so, wouldn’t it be disingenuous to posit “well he had this coming” or “the reputation is already there, so it’s not surprising”? How long does he have to be on better behavior to get a pass in their eyes? I’ve never seen a trainer get a T in watching over 40 years of basketball. The behavior we saw out of Hurley for the rest of that Memphis game stemmed from that call, IMO.
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The NCAA is run by the P5 and they aren’t happy about UConn winning every year. They want to split off and create their own basketball tournament, but UConn is literally the one program keeping them from doing it. There is a HUGE amount of $$ on the line for these P5 schools. I honestly wouldn’t be shocked if 5 years from now some of the truth behind this lopsided officiating comes out. Sorry, but where there is this much smoke there is most definitely fire. We’re getting technicals called on our medical trainer who from all who know him knows he is a soft spoken guy who does not get involved in officiating during the games. I agree that set Hurley off and it cost us the first 2 games. I honestly don’t care, it hurts our seeding come March but give us a 7 or 8 seed and we will run through everyone again, I don’t really care.
Yes, our perimeter defense needs to improve, but you cannot tell me you think the Memphis and Colorado games were called even close to neutral. Those were so lopsided it’s a joke. By the time the Dayton game came around we literally couldn’t defend anyone because if we did our whole team would foul out just like in the previous 2 games. The NCAA needs to do something about the officiating, maybe come up with a grading system for each game. Even better would be tracking grades of the refs vs. which teams they are officiating. Essentially just put some data behind this and shine a light on the issue. I think we’re probably only 1-2 years from having an AI agent that is able to review game video and determine made and missed calls and assign unbiased grades to officials. WHEN that happens it will be extremely easy to go back and feed the AI games from previous years to see how poorly or fairly they were officiated.
Yes, our perimeter defense needs to improve, but you cannot tell me you think the Memphis and Colorado games were called even close to neutral. Those were so lopsided it’s a joke. By the time the Dayton game came around we literally couldn’t defend anyone because if we did our whole team would foul out just like in the previous 2 games. The NCAA needs to do something about the officiating, maybe come up with a grading system for each game. Even better would be tracking grades of the refs vs. which teams they are officiating. Essentially just put some data behind this and shine a light on the issue. I think we’re probably only 1-2 years from having an AI agent that is able to review game video and determine made and missed calls and assign unbiased grades to officials. WHEN that happens it will be extremely easy to go back and feed the AI games from previous years to see how poorly or fairly they were officiated.
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Just when I thought I had heard it all, lolz.
The Colorado game wasn’t as egregious as the Memphis game, but the non call on the offensive rebound Colorado got where the guy went over Liam’s back stands out. You could well be onto something. You have to wonder if the whole power conference thing might be setting up for a giant lawsuit down the line for non competitive practices. Maybe a school like UConn would end up bringing it.
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