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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%
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This was what happens when you get to a place we’re any failure is not acceptable. He has been holding this in since practice started.

I think the issue with the refs becomes almost him projecting his need to win at all costs.

In the end many people who accomplish great things become their own worst enemy.

I hope that was just him hitting the reset button…..from all the stress staying on the mountain top brings.
 
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In a game on 11/25, it's not big deal to me. Also, for me it would be different if the refs had been great all game and this was one terrible call.
It's not a great look, but the players aren't going to mind unless this happens multiple times in the season or happens in the tournaments that really count.
I think from a player perspective, they are glad to have someone fight for them and has their back, even if it is in an insane manner at times. Most would rather play for that guy than a guy who just looks like he's in pain all the time or shows little interest at all.
Finally, the refs weren't great, but I think to a man, almost everyone in that locker room after the game was replaying a few plays or more where they felt that they themselves could have done better.

The #2 ranking is/was nice to have, but that was really more based on potential. If this team plays D like they did against Memphis, there is no chance at a 3-peat, but let's see where they are in late January/early February.
 
There were some very questionable calls against us not doubt. However, Coach Hurley should have more self control and know how to temper his emotions considering the score and time.
 
UConnSwag11 said:
What’s there to coach when they aren’t fouls?
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We’re bias and that’s okay. But we played defense in a way that gave the refs a chance to call a foul. There’s ways to prevent that.

If you have a forearm in somebody or hands down then you are liable to get called for a foul. As UConn fans who’ve watched guys like Kemba, Shabazz, and even Newton we should know this.
 
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Continuing to start Samson Johnson is just as bad as picking up that T. Great Coach, but like any other human he makes mistakes. Love Hurley, but he's not perfect and we shouldn't expect him to be.
 
I like it better when we’re blowing people out, as he’s more reserved. I’m close games like yesterday, he goes too far. But as long as it doesn’t bother his players, I’m fine with the criticism
 
Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
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.
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Bingo - I was saying this yesterday
 
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I can't believe people are taking the side of the referee over Dan Hurley. You don't get to make a terrible call and then double down on it by T'ing up the coach in the THAT situation. If you let Hurley mouth off all game long, you don't pick that moment to T him up either. Where is the accountability for referees in this sport?

College basketball needs a challenge option because these refs are consistently terrible. Hurley is not even asking for a favorable whistle, he is asking for a FAIR whistle. We don't even get a fair whistle. Does anyone remember last year when Goodman reported that numerous refs told him that they have a personal animus against Dan Hurley? Yeah. And we're supposed to expect them to be unbiased? This is something that borders on match fixing and I cannot believe that it wasn't investigated to find out which refs told Goodman that.
 
He is who he is and we’re a top or the top winning program in the country. Danny I got your back, PERIOD! He’s always building something and this is all part of it.
 
I know there's a lot of talk that he was calmer last year. He hasn't changed. He SEEMED calmer because we had three loses all year. I love Hurley. Wouldn't trade him for any other coach in D-1. But he is a lunatic, and from an outsider he and as a extension UConn is easy to hate. Based on our success we have to lean in and embrace that.
That being said. For Hurley's own health, physical and mental (which the latter has been well documented), he exhausts himself every game with the way he goes after the refs. I can't remember a game UConn has gotten a favorable whistle since he's been here. UConn bias I know but someone please give me a good rebuttal. So he must truly believe in the fact that the way he attacks the refs generates a positive return of amping his team and advocating for his players. Which is fine, but man it's a weird look for back-to-back champs to have someone losing his GD mind over every call, warranted or not.
 
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There were bad calls, especially Memphis elbowing Solo in the face and foul on Solo. Memphis grabbing our cutters and screeners all game. Was never addressed. My criticism of Hurley is the language he uses when he is mad about a call. Calling officials "a clown" will never help us in any way. The official knows everyone around the court as well as the other 2 officials hears this. Dan gets so irate he is not able to give his opinion and then move on and coach our team. I think it then gets the players distracted. He should bring up bad calls but don't be a child about it.
 
Coach knows what he’s doing. It’s a chess match. He argues about officiating now and the refs are going to think about the calls they’re making for or against us this season. Some will work for and some against.
 
The funny part to me is that the question that's posed by the thread is, What is Your Take on Hurley and the refs? That's a general question. Then everyone here makes it just about the technical. It seems most people on this board are okay with Hurley's behavior if he doesn't get the tech. I understand the outrage about the tech, because it might have cost us the game in this case, and that's inexcusable.

But is it okay for him to just continually abuse officials every single game? Referees are human beings. They're just regular guys trying to do their jobs the best they can. We all get that coaches have to work their butts off, and it's frustrating when refs don't get a call right. But Hurley is yelling at them the WHOLE GAME. He screams at them at any close call that doesn't go his way. Sometimes Hurley sees it right, and I'm guessing most times when he's screaming, the ref actually got it right. Again, the guys calling the games are human. We've all seen it, they're going to get most things right, and some things wrong. It's part of the game. Screaming at the officials constantly shouldn't be part of the game.

Dan Hurley is the best coach in college basketball in my opinion. That doesn't give him a free pass to do whatever he wants.
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
We’re bias and that’s okay. But we played defense in a way that gave the refs a chance to call a foul. There’s ways to prevent that.

If you have a forearm in somebody or hands down then you are liable to get called for a foul. As UConn fans who’ve watched guys like Kemba, Shabazz, and even Newton we should know this.
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I think it was the early fouls that set him off.

It was not as you described. Players had arms up, not bodying the driver at all, feet moving.

The driver initiated contact and got the foul call. This is why we had so many starters on the bench so early in the game.

On the other side of the court, Memphis was hacking, using hands, 2 hands to push, everything we've been told needs to be called.

You can adjust and play the game the Memphis way and then you won't get called for fouls, but it's such a bad kind of basketball. No idea why the refs prefer to give the advantage to teams that isolate and drive over teams that want to run offensive plays.

That's how it as last night.
 
UConnSwag11 said:
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
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Going to war and screwing up are 2 different issues
He hurt this team yesterday
He was "early years at UConn Hurley" on steroids - not good at all
He won 2 NCs but that doesn't give him carte blanche with everything he does.
The officiating was horrible at best, but it was that way from the onset - great coaches work around it, they don't escalate the tension. (It took me about 5 years of my nearly 30 years of coaching to realize this myself)
Perhaps the events of the overtime yesterday will sink in with Dan Hurley. Very good coach but he is still not a very good bench coach.

I bet not Everyone is cool with it when the team is winning..................................................

Today is a new/different day.
 
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gtcam said:
Going to war and screwing up are 2 different issues
He hurt this team yesterday
He was "early years at UConn Hurley" on steroids - not good at all
He won 2 NCs but that doesn't give him carte blanche with everything he does.
The officiating was horrible at best, but it was that way from the onset - great coaches work around it, they don't escalate the tension. (It took me about 5 years of my nearly 30 years of coaching to realize this myself)
Perhaps the events of the overtime yesterday will sink in with Dan Hurley. Very good coach but he is still not a very good bench coach.

I bet not Everyone is cool with it when the team is winning..................................................

Today is a new/different day.
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Hope he has a little reflection today because that PG conference was a bad look.
 
UConnSwag11 said:
What’s there to coach when they aren’t fouls?
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CTpessimist said:
Coach knows what he’s doing. It’s a chess match. He argues about officiating now and the refs are going to think about the calls they’re making for or against us this season. Some will work for and some against.
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Maybe teach your perimeter defenders to play D with their feet so they aren't grabbing with their arms.

It's the "some against" that seem to hurt this team the most
 
BlueandOG said:
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?
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If that had been at the Final Four the refs would’ve been on their best behavior. Calls like that, and the timing of the calls would’ve led to an investigation. Most one sided refereeing I’ve ever seen.
 
I am surprised by the number of hothouse flowers we have on this board.

I stand with Coach. Period.

When losing hurts more than winning feels good, you have guys that are wired differently. Michael Jordan punched his own teammates in practice. Calhoun had one of the shortest fuses in the history of the sport. Larry Bird had a temper.

Truth is, if the team showed half the fire that Hurley showed we wouldn't have been in that predicament to begin with. We played like crap in the last cupcake warm up and we played sloppy on both ends of the floor yesterday and he won't accept it and neither will I. Keep doing exactly what you're doing, Coach.
 
The choices should be:

"Learn to live with Hurley being Hurley because he is not going to change (and hope that after championship #5 the refs are now worried about offending the GOAT" and "Fire Hurley, he is not going to change."
 
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