Speculation on the work of Bobby Hurley has intensified since the Arizona State lost against Arizona last week, 81-72, in a game spoiled by the Sun Devils jumping the post-match handle line , with many writers wondering if the ASU basketball coach was on the hot seat in Tempe and many fans calling for the coach to be dismissed.
But how will the person who decide the fate of the coach currently feels the coach?
This person, the sports director of Arizona State, Graham Rossini, offered some clues in an interview with Arizona Sports 98.7 FM Thursday, addressing the end of the match against the Wildcats and expectations for the program, as well as to approach the potential status of Hurley as a coach.
Here are some protruding facts of the interview.
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On the end of the ASU basketball match in the defeat against Arizona: “ It was a lack ”
“No, this is not the case,” Rossini told the Burns and Gambo Show if Hurley’s actions were acceptable. “We talked about it right after the match, and I know that a lot has been going on since.
Rossini continued: “I understand that the tensions go up high and that the emotions are very heated in a game like that, not the end that we hoped. But we must maintain the sporty spirit. It was a miss, he Admitted, we admitted it on its name and we tried to do our best to go beyond and prepare for this weekend.
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On the expectations of the Basketball Program of the Arizona State: “ We are here to win championships ”
“It’s an expectation, it’s not a goal,” said Rossini about Sun Devils making the NCAA tournament. “It is a kind of these minimum requirements that we want to have tournament teams certainly in basketball, but in all our sports.” It is my responsibility to look in all the organization and to understand what are the parts that we have to modify and adjust and add to have this kind of success.
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On the status of Bobby Hurley as a coach of the Arizona State: “We want to support him”
“He and I have this conversation from time to time, what are the missing pieces?” Rossini told Arizona Sports 98.7. “He is our coach and we want to support him because we are in the middle of the season. We talked yesterday and said:” Hey, we must just expire. “We have to become basketball again.”
He also declared during the interview: “And we must look carefully at the reasons why we cannot succeed and look at the adjustments that must be made, and there is obviously a time and a place where we are ready to TO DO . “
The Sun Devils are currently 12-10 in total and 3-8 in game Big 12. On Sunday, they have nine games in the regular season, starting with a match at Oklahoma State on Sunday.
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