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What is your take on Hurley and the Refs?

What answer best describes your opinion on Dan Hurley and his confrontational attitude with refs?

  • It's no big deal

    Votes: 71 18.0%

  • It energizes the team

    Votes: 49 12.4%

  • It intimidates refs into giving him a call

    Votes: 15 3.8%

  • It only makes Hurley look foolish

    Votes: 259 65.7%
  • Total voters
    394
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Chief00 said:
I really feel so many here are caught up in pleasing the national media, you are not looking at the numbers.
In the most recent game Dayton had 30 foul shot attempts to 11. So for the tournament it is 98 to 47. Over 100% more foul shot attempts.
This is an insane number over 3 games and makes games almost unwinnable for a variety of reasons.
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.
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The reason. The foul shot discrepancy. Was so large. Is that UConn. Cannot. Stop. Fouling. You. Moron.
 
Chief00 said:
Kyle Boone isn’t a good reporter. I am not making excuses fur Danny’s behavior but to criticize him in a vaccum and not explore Driscoll’s multi year grudge against Danny, which led to a bizairre 40-24 foul shot variance is very poor journalism. Driscoll’s officiating UConn games is very unprofessional. It has been that way for a few years.
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UConn is 24-8 in games Driscoll has reffed over the last five years.

Some conspiracy!
 
First things first no matter what coach Hurley says or does on the sidelines I will always support him. With back to back championships and what he has done for this program I owe him that much. Now do I like watching him act like an immature childlike lunatic after a foul is called? No I hate watching him flop around like a fish out of water or making faces that become highlights on ESPN. I don’t enjoy watching him being restrained by his coaching staff every time he is losing. He needs to reel in that anger and bottle it. And if he chooses not to change he will always be the guy who will have my support.
 
zls44 said:
UConn is 24-8 in games Driscoll has reffed over the last five years.

Some conspiracy!
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Against who and foul shot counts? I know much more about this than I am saying here.
 
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Chief00 said:
Against who and foul shot counts? I know much more about this than I am saying here.
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No. You don’t. Your God complex is so insufferable.
 
zls44 said:
No. You don’t. Your God complex is so insufferable.
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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.
 
Chief00 said:
I really feel so many here are caught up in pleasing the national media, you are not looking at the numbers.
In the most recent game Dayton had 30 foul shot attempts to 11. So for the tournament it is 98 to 47. Over 100% more foul shot attempts.
This is an insane number over 3 games and makes games almost unwinnable for a variety of reasons.
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.
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Stop it Chief. You’re better than this. Hurley has been acting like a jerk. Any ref would have called a T in that situation, especially when Hurley had been going at it all game. He threw a tantrum like a 2-year old.

And we get called for fouls because we are playing poor defense. Just like teams are shooting lights out from 3 for that reason.
 
HooperScooper said:
Curious why you say that? Do you just not agree with the premise of this article?

He's been a huge UConn backer, probably the biggest one that writes about college hoops on a national level.

2 years ago he was the 1st national writer I saw who was a big early proponent of the Huskies with his post season predictions.

Last week after the East Texas A&M game he wrote this: Dan Hurley wasn't too pleased after only beating East Texas A&M on Tuesday by 35 points, but I'm not Dan Hurley. And I'm pleased by the blowout, and from what I've seen from the Huskies in their 4-0 start to defending their title.

9 days ago he backed Hurley with this article.

There's a reason UConn has become the gold standard in college basketball and why it has won back-to-back national championships under Hurley. UConn's fearless leader holds his Huskies to a high standard and clearly isn't afraid to voice his disgust -- even if it comes on the heels of a 35-point win in a game that was never, ever in doubt.

www.cbssports.com

UConn coach Dan Hurley says Huskies were 'comically bad' in 35-point win vs. team in transition to Division I

Hurley wasn't in a joking mood even after No. 2 UConn rolled to an easy 81-46 victory vs. East Texas A&M
www.cbssports.com www.cbssports.com
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Based on his Internet replies to his articles
 
HooperScooper said:
If you think Pearl was content with the game, let me tell you ... he was not. Pearl was Dan Hurley-level furious with the officials in a 15-point game with 1:22 remaining. After Pearl's press conference, he pulled aside J.D. Collins, the former director of NCAA officiating who oversees the officials each year in Maui, to share his concerns in a private conversation just outside the media work room.

Interesting. And his team won. So maybe the refs actually do stink in Maui. Does anyone know which crew reffed the Auburn game?

www.cbssports.com

Maui Invitational takeaways: UConn reeling, Tyrese Hunter puts Memphis in finals and Auburn's case for No. 1

Johni Broome and Tyrese Hunter had huge games Tuesday to put their teams into Wednesday's Maui Invitational championship
www.cbssports.com www.cbssports.com
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I watched Auburn throughout the tourney and Pearl is an idiot. His team gets away with murder and he’s still moaning that’s bs. Dan got screwed game 1 and he had a reason to rant although some is on him. Bruce should just s t and be happy they treat him ok.
 
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Husky Alien said:
Wow! Great insight. You can disagree with coach Hurleys antics, and I agree with most of the posts on here that he needs to tone it down. But to make that comment is sad.
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You need to get a thicker skin if my comment upset you that much.
 
Chief00 said:
I really feel so many here are caught up in pleasing the national media, you are not looking at the numbers.
In the most recent game Dayton had 30 foul shot attempts to 11. So for the tournament it is 98 to 47. Over 100% more foul shot attempts.
This is an insane number over 3 games and makes games almost unwinnable for a variety of reasons.
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.
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Nope. Once the team stops fouling and Danny stops acting like a donkey the refs will stop calling fouls.
 
crazyUCfan23 said:
To me, Hurley was acting insane all game (per usual, which is why we love him). Unless he said something, like COMPLETELY out of line there was no need for the ref to T him up with 40 seconds left in OT. It shoudl've been called on him earlier if they were going to call it IMO. I'm also a high school coach who yells a lot at the refs when they suck lol. Unless you've coached before at a competitive level, its hard to truly understand how frustrating bad officiating can be
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Because he behaved badly all game, the refs are not allowed to penalize them when he behaves badly at the end?
 
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NickDanger said:
Because he behaved badly all game, the refs are not allowed to penalize them when he behaves badly at the end?
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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.
 
SoFla Steve said:
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.
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I thought the same.
 
Both can be true. Driscoll sucks and Hurley needs to keep it more in check - keep the passion, fight the bad calls but stop with the direct, personal insults. According to the rules he probably should have been ejected from the Memphis game, maybe that would have helped like it did a couple years ago to rein it in just enough.

I do find the rules about “inciting the crowd” and “jumping up from the bench” laughable though.
 
TheShot1990 said:
You need other choices
O - It enrages the refs so much that they start making phantom calls such as player's face-fouled-guard and OTB on clean rebound, so it actually hurts the team
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This is 100 percent the correct answer
 
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Chief00 said:
I really feel so many here are caught up in pleasing the national media, you are not looking at the numbers.
In the most recent game Dayton had 30 foul shot attempts to 11. So for the tournament it is 98 to 47. Over 100% more foul shot attempts.
This is an insane number over 3 games and makes games almost unwinnable for a variety of reasons.
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.
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There were certainly some bad calls, and the call in the Memphis at the end was bad, and the mised over the back in the Colorado game was even worse I think it’s fair to say that those two calls if they went the other way, would have produced a different result.
That being said, I find your statistics on the disparity in fouls not convincing
UConnis constantly being beat off the dribble fouls three point shooters and seems to be constantly out of position which leads to excessive fouling
on offense, I might agree with your premise that they aren’t getting calls, but they’re not penetrating enough , no real Post game from the centers
And Karaban and Ball have been pretty much one
Dimensional 3 point shooters
not putting any pressure on the referees to make calls


I have no idea if the referee you speak up has a personal vendetta against Hurley, and that it affects his judgment
If the coaches feel that’s the case, I would think it would be up to the athletic Director to use what should be their considerable influence with the big east to make sure the referee in question is not assigned to their games
obviously they would have no control of the assignments in the tournament games in Maui

I do acknowledge that you’ve been consistent in your feelings about the referees during the 2 years
Even as the team was winning
From where I sit, I thought the last two years there was more one-sided officiating especially when it came to our post players, sonogo and clingan
Than I saw this year
Always appreciate your take on things
 
In case folks didn’t see it, a brawl broke out on the field between Michigan and Ohio State players with police in the middle of it actually using pepper spray on the players. This is the real type of embarrassment to college sports, not Hurley’s “antics”. Don’t hold your breath waiting for any of the players involved to be punished for it.
 
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