What is your take on Hurley and the Refs?

[Mr. Wonderful]

There's some interesting discourse going on around the Internet right now that I find fascinating.

A whole lot of people were upset yesterday when Hurley called out officials for not respecting a two time national championship winning head coach. People were calling him entitled, arrogant, etc because he believes his success in his profession has earned him some benefit of the doubt. On the other side of the coin, those same people and types of people say that bad calls going against him are brought upon himself through his behavior.

I'm not sure how you can have it both ways. I don't see how you can be indignant and talk about respect for the game and not treating a good coach favorably, and then speak out of the other side of your mouth and say him and the team deserve bad calls because he, in his mind, is trying to hold officials accountable for their decisions.

It's clear as day that his theatrics are a net negative for the program; but I don't necessarily believe they should be. If there is word of any officials trying to "teach him a lesson" or any evidence of it, there really should be an investigation and some sort of repercussions. You can't, as a paid professional, take your bias into account when making work decisions. If you are, you're compromising the integrity of the sport. Maybe I'm one of the few that sees it as serious of an issue as I believe it to be, but I think it's a conversation the media should be having.

This sounds like a throwaway line, but there's a better way of getting your point across than Hurley practices.

His message is clearly lost in his method of communication. It turns out people don't like being screamed at and belittled in front of large groups of people.

I wish he would talk calmly about how every team UConn plays is allowed to be as physical as they want to be against us, and that has a cumulative effect game over game on how UConn is forced to play. How about that Danny?

 

[JMick]

This sounds like a throwaway line, but there's a better way of getting your point across than Hurley practices.

His message is clearly lost in his method of communication. It turns out people don't like being screamed at and belittled in front of large groups of people.

I wish he would talk calmly about how every team UConn plays is allowed to be as physical as they want to be against us, and that has a cumulative effect game over game on how UConn is forced to play. How about that Danny?

Sure. But also maybe don't suck? To me the issue Hurley has is that he holds himself to a high standard, he holds his staff to a high standard, he holds his players to a high standard, but no one seems to hold the refs to any standard. So he "takes it upon himself" to hold them to the standard he expects. It obviously doesn't work but I feel like that's the logic behind it

 

[Kolumbo]

2 Time Defending Champions. Everyone will be looking for blood and will shed no tears. I don't know if this video was posted anywhere else here but this random twitter feed was the only place I saw it. I think it's hilarious. DH is our psycho so the backlash comes with the territory.

 

[Deepster]

Calling people that disagree with you pansies doesn't help your argument. Show me the evidence. Let me know the game Calhoun lost due to a technical. Or even a time when he got a T in a similar situation. Also, tell me how the T Hurley got yesterday did not make it harder for us to win.

You realize it doesn't matter when the technicals come, right? Free points are free points. Hurley had been super vocal all game and could've (and maybe should've) gotten at least one prior to that point. Did it make it harder for us to win? I don't know. Would we have come back and made it that close if he sat back and didn't say anything and let our lackluster effort continue in silence?

Calhoun got a hundred technicals when his team was playing sloppy, lacking effort and already down in a game.

https://www.registercitizen.com/news/article/Technically-speaking-coach-still-miffed-12126378.php

The game above, he got THREE technicals at the end of the first half and they lost 85-83 in OT. They were down 27-18, made all 6 FT's to extend it to 33-18 with 5 minutes in the half.

So stop being a Chicken Little pansy.

 

[Palatine]

Unless Hurley can teach the refs to play defense and guard the three point line, it doesn't matter what the refs do or Hurley's antics.

 

[BlueandOG]

You realize it doesn't matter when the technicals come, right? Free points are free points. Hurley had been super vocal all game and could've (and maybe should've) gotten at least one prior to that point. Did it make it harder for us to win? I don't know. Would we have come back and made it that close if he sat back and didn't say anything and let our lackluster effort continue in silence?

Calhoun got a hundred technicals when his team was playing sloppy, lacking effort and already down in a game.

https://www.registercitizen.com/news/article/Technically-speaking-coach-still-miffed-12126378.php

The game above, he got THREE technicals at the end of the first half and they lost 85-83 in OT. They were down 27-18, made all 6 FT's to extend it to 33-18 with 5 minutes in the half.

So stop being a Chicken Little pansy.

I think our difference of opinion comes from your opening sentence. It does matter when the T was called. Hurley's T at the end of OT created a hole our players could not dig out of. Calhoun's Ts were not as poorly timed as Hurley's - they did not put the team in a position to lose.

Strong leaders know the importance of situational awareness and command presence. Hurley is a great coach with many strengths; however, he has to improve those aspect of his leadership.