Maybe I am wrong, but I thought he turned his back on the team. The call that he was thrown out on wasn't worth getting ejected over. I think he was just embarrassed and wanted out.
It was a very bad look. He looked like someone who wanted to get away. Cal knows that because of his mouth, refs have a very short fuse with him. He had to know if he kept talking he would get booted.
In the past, I felt like his team was getting screwed over and he wanted to get booted to fire up his team, but I don't feel like that with this one.
Of course a coach fighting for his players isn't a bad look, but a coach wanting to get away before the game is over is a bad look. If he wanted to fight for his players, he could have put Allen in the game to start the second half. He could have yanked Boston out for some of those god awful shots he was taking. Surely he didn't think this very young team would be better off without their head coach, but maybe he did. Maybe he couldn't trust himself to do the right thing with Boston and Allen. That is something to think about.
I think he planned on doing it to motivate the team. I know he won’t admit that but he’s done it in the past. Glad it worked and they got the win.
Cal knew he had to get this win to stop the losing streak and start out good in conference play. I can’t remember how many times he’s done that in the past but from what I remember it seems like it’s always worked.
Yeah and if you believe that I got a crazy deal on a laserdisc for you. He knows how to get tossed. Getting tossed is a win win for John. Lose and we lost bc refs tossed me. Win and its because I motivated the players.
I think it was the bad non call in a long line of bad calls by the refs. It wasn't just one call that set him off. The creativity that is used to bash Cal doesn't stop. Yesterday I read through a couple of pages of posts about how useless our assistants were to this team.
100% this, and it isn't even a question. He took the cowards way out.
It didn't motivate the team. It relaxed the team because they knew they would be able to play without hearing Cal screaming at them.
I’m just glad we finally got a W. Idk which way it worked but I’m just glad we ended the losing streak
He 100% meant to get thrown out, but to JC credit he know damn well getting thrown out is a win win for him. We lose its because he got thrown out. We win he won because he motivated the team. Cal is slick I'll give him that.
Fans are very frustrated because we know if Cal hadn't been booted Allen wouldn't have been in the game at crunch time. Fans are just fed up with the nonsense. One win isn't going to change that.
If the team was Duke, your feelings about things would be totally different. It would be a great South West airline commercial, wanna get away?
Allen played quite a bit while Cal was still on the bench. Cal also played a lot of zone tonight. That in itself is very different. Making shots makes everything better for the team and Dontae definitely did that. Good on him.
I thought it could have been called either way, but the one that should have been called was the ABU drive and lower his shoulder and knocked our player down that clearly was a charge, but called a block was terrible. But we overcame at the end. Good win over a fair MS St team who just knocked off unbeaten UGA this week. And with UT losing today + Auburn, I'm very happy. We should be at least tied for the SEC lead.