What is your take on Hurley and the Refs?

[Mr. Wonderful]

I'm curious what the board breakdown is.

 

[Huskygrad88]

He is a great coach who has zero self control and if you sit close enough to the bench you know he deserves every single tech he gets and more.

 

[TheShot1990]

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

 

[REB1094]

Valid reasons to be upset at the refs, no possible valid reason to pick up a T with 40 seconds left in a tie game in OT

 

[Devland]

Rather have a coach with passion who defends his team than a coach who shows no emotion.

 

[HuskyWarrior611]

Focus more on coaching the team on how not to foul instead of fighting with the refs about every foul called.

I don’t think he talked to our guys one time after a call, even if it was obvious.

 

[Scorpio1]

He has two National Championships...but is still a jerk. A coach should never take his guys chance to win a game away from them. Never!

 

[RuffRuff]

Good news is that definitely doesn’t translate to the NBA. He’s our maniac .

 

[Seamus84]

When you teach excellence you demand excellence in return. We can talk all we want about “knowing the situation”, etc but that’s not how people like Danny, Steve Jobs, etc are wired. Liam did an excellent job of high-pointing the rebound exactly how you’d teach it, the ref’s blew the call. Where it will always be a journey for Danny (and us as fans) is expecting perfection.

 

[crazyUCfan23]

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

 

[Scorpio1]

When you teach excellence you demand excellence in return. We can talk all we want about “knowing the situation”, etc but that’s not how people like Danny, Steve Jobs, etc are wired. Liam did an excellent job of high-pointing the rebound exactly how you’d teach it, the ref’s blew the call. Where it will always be a journey for Danny (and us as fans) is expecting perfection.

The re-play showed that it was a borderline call...could have gone either way. If you're a UConn fan it's a bad call... you can scream at the TV. But, as the coach, you've got to know where the line is that will hurt your team!

 

[businesslawyer]

We have a great coach — nothing in this discussion changes that. Having said that, there is no strategy in getting T’d up in the last minute of the game. You’re not giving yourself time to motivate your players or influence future calls. It simply is a weakness in Hurley’s game. Period. But it’s akin to criticizing something in Lebron’s game — criticism may be fair but it doesn’t mean Lebron isn’t great.

 

[UConnSwag11]

We’ve known this about him since he got here. Everyone is cool with it when he’s winning.

He turned down every opportunity to leave UConn. He’s dominated the sport the last 2 years and the players love him.

UConn fans need to get over it. Players appreciate a coach that goes to war for them instead of leaving them to feel cheated and wronged

 

[upstater]

There should be a 5th choice to the poll. How worried are we that Hurley burns the candles at both ends like this?

I know he is type A and this is him, but he's been fairly open to the media about his rage at the refs in the past.

Only someone who really believes they are going to win 3 in a row can likely actually win 3 in a row.

But it's such an unbelievable achievement that you wonder how the reality of any college season is going to do to him. You can't win 3 without believing you're going to win 3, but it's really a crazy expectation.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

The T at the end was totally avoidable. Ref walked away. Kimani had Hurley behind him and seemed like it was over, then Dan went back after the ref. Just can’t happen.

The call was questionable. Definitely contact but McNeeley was just taller than the guy and got the rebound. Not the worst call of the game and you just gotta move on.

The worst call was the combination of the call where Reed turns around and the guy who is a half a foot shorter is crawling into his jersey and it was his fifth foul and a tech. Elbow wasn’t even extended. Literally just turned around and if it wasn’t a guard who got stuck in a terrible mismatch that’s an elbow to the chest and it’s probably an and1. Turn to end of game and Solo gets an elbow swung into his face and it’s a foul on him. Just can’t have two different interpretations of the same rule like that.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

If it had to happen I prefer it occurring in November. He should have known better but....

 

[UConnSwag11]

He was calm last year and people still hated on him. He’s going to be the villain no matter what. Might as well embrace it

 

[my2cents]

His reaction is understandable when the entire game the refs were suspect. Reed's offensive foul cost us a basket, just another example.
His emotional investment that he makes every day to winning, the effort his teams put in to have loses made by terrible refs. You would explode too.

 

[TheHorde]

Now do a thread for our trainer lol. I think that one deservedly set him off more and set the stage for what happened in overtime. For those criticizing Hurley, do the refs also deserve criticism for blowing easy calls, even with the benefit of using the monitor? Or calling a T on something a trainer mutters in a team huddle not in full view and earshot of a crowd?

 

[UCTitleTown]

Hurley needs to realize he's not Coach K. or Dean Smith. Refs are watching him and allow a lot, so whatever they actually call must be bad. I question the timing of the 2nd T, not whether he deserved it. I remember JC costing the team games as well and it infuriated me. You can't give away points in close games and riding regs usually backfires.

 

[connVA]

It was funny how Bilas and Shulman completely missed the technical and usually they're pretty good. You could hear the extra whistle and crowd going crazy on TV and then see Hurley's reaction but there was nothing from the commentators until the Memphis player went to the line to shoot with the empty lane. Shulman: "I guess there was a technical called".

Pretty big miss, especially if Hurley had been rolling on the floor as others have mentioned. Camera didn't seem to catch any of that.

 

[BlueandOG]

Now do a thread for our trainer lol. I think that one deservedly set him off more and set the stage for what happened in overtime. For those criticizing Hurley, do the refs also deserve criticism for blowing easy calls, even with the benefit of using the monitor? Or calling a T on something a trainer mutters in a team huddle not in full view and earshot of a crowd?

The refs deserve plenty of criticism; however, refs make bad calls in every game. Hurley's lack of self control and game awareness is exceptionally bad. The stakes were low in this game. What if he behaved like that in a NCAA tournament game and cost us a win?

 

[TheHorde]

Hurley needs to realize he's not Coach K. or Dean Smith. Refs are watching him and allow a lot, so whatever they actually call must be bad. I question the timing of the 2nd T, not whether he deserved it. I remember JC costing the team games as well and it infuriated me. You can't give away points in close games and riding regs usually backfires.

What do you mean by he needs to realize he’s not Dean Smith or Coach K? That he can’t get away with stuff other stars and star coaches get protected for? You did see Shadeur Sanders push a ref this past weekend, right?

 

[Drame]

The trainer one is BS and if I had known the circumstances of that at the time I would have been super POed the whole game. Theres no real accountability of the refs to the game or the coaches who they screw over. Falling for all the flopping, having a large FT disparity and calling a tech on the bench for an indirect comment are BS. At least we know our coach isn't complacent.

 

[drayenob]

Sometimes he's justified and sometimes he's over the top. Calling a T on the medical guy is ridiculous and probably set him off for the rest of the game.