McNeeley

[kkott]

Watching UConn vs Memphis on ESPN 2. Memphis quickness and length giving McNeeley fits. I haven’t seen him play much but he looks awful today.

freshman. Hard to step in and be consistently productive at this level, even if he played at MV, which I did think would help him tremendously. It's why I thought the one and done talk with him and Mullins was way premature and unlikely. We may have gotten the better player in Tucker.

 

[turney333]

And while it certainly didn't "have" to be called, it also wasn't an obviously bad call. The defender did have legal rebounding position, and McNeeley did make contact with him while going over him for the rebound. "Over the back" isn't an actual foul, but making contact and gaining an advantage with that contact, "over" someone in a legal rebounding position, is a foul. It can easily be argued he did that.

Long winded way of saying it was a call that could have gone either way. Hurley is a spaz. He'll do something soon to get himself cancelled/fired.

Yes, that is frequently a no call as it wasn’t egregious, but he did bump into the other player and made contact with the players arm and both actions impeded his ability raise his arm and jump for the ball. The Memphis player’s left arm/hand couldn’t get above shoulder height and he barely had any vertical.

Sucks to have that called late in the game for sure, but absolutely no reason for the press conference comments let alone the on court tirade

 

[sobester]

Not that it matters, but it was BS when Hurley said the Memphis player made a half-ass attempt to get the rebound. The replay shows that’s not true at all. It was a lie and kind of a cheap thing to say anyway.

 

[Stuffshot]

My pet peace argument ….. “not even illegal anymore”. Dumbest argument evrrr!!! It’s the ADVANTAGE you get because others can’t do it. It’s like saying two of are shots would be three pointers now so really won that game in 1985 based on the rules today. And Im not talking about IU. I don’t even know what Sampson did for sure. Just hate that ridiculous argument.

At the time, some of the NCAA's own enforcement personnel didn't think it was a serious enough violation to warrant the penalty that was imposed. So, OK, it may have been "illegal" at the time, but it was a first-time-offender misdemeanor violation by IU instead of a serious felony.

As for an "ADVANTAGE", as you screamed, I recall some of the "phone calls" the NCAA counted against Sampson were (1) not received by any human being, but (2) were registered by telephone company equipment when they clicked on answering machines for a couple seconds even though nobody left a recorded message. Again, not a serious felony giving an "advantage", and it's doubtful the caller or recipient even knew this would count as a "phone call" or that it even had happened. The NCAA counted "phone calls" even when they were not completed.

One thing is clear -- when the NCAA acts like this it loses public support. The NCAA's tremendous loss of power proves "Karma is a bitch."

 

[sobester]

At the time, some of the NCAA's own enforcement personnel didn't think it was a serious enough violation to warrant the penalty that was imposed. So, OK, it may have been "illegal" at the time, but it was a first-time-offender misdemeanor violation by IU instead of a serious felony.

As for an "ADVANTAGE", as you screamed, I recall some of the "phone calls" the NCAA counted against Sampson were (1) not received by any human being, but (2) were registered by telephone company equipment when they clicked on answering machines for a couple seconds even though nobody left a recorded message. Again, not a serious felony giving an "advantage", and it's doubtful the caller or recipient even knew this would count as a "phone call" or that it even had happened. The NCAA counted "phone calls" even when they were not completed.

One thing is clear -- when the NCAA acts like this it loses public support. The NCAA's tremendous loss of power proves "Karma is a bitch."

Again, my comments were not about IU. It was about the frivolity of the “it’s legal now” argument. NIL did not vindicate UK for sending cash to a player’s parents in the 80s.

 

[Chicago-bound Hoosier]

Not that it matters, but it was BS when Hurley said the Memphis player made a half-ass attempt to get the rebound. The replay shows that’s not true at all. It was a lie and kind of a cheap thing to say anyway.

Yep. I thought the call was a 50/50 and maybe should have just been a play-on….but Hurley loses my vote when he starts acting like a tool. The “half ass” comment was a bad choice of words. You stop making your case when you start acting like a dick.