'Sometimes You've Got To Eat Shit. Maybe Play With Your National Title Rings' - Dan Hurley's Advice For Alex Karaban After Missing FT's With 3 Seconds Left

In case you missed it last night, Alex Karaban missed 2 free throws with a couple seconds left, down 1 at Nova: 

Not only that but in the last minute (all down 1, Karaban missed a 3 and missed another jumper. Like Hurley said, sometimes you've got to eat shit because no one still in college basketball has had more success than Alex Karaban. Dude won 2 titles his first 2 years. Spent an offseason deciding to come back to UConn and help keep Dan Hurley there. He only knows success. 

I do love the idea of Dan Hurley, a man who is known for losing his goddamn mind during games, getting home from Maui and sitting on the floor playing with his national title rings as his wife asks him what's wrong. I can't help it, I find Hurley hilarious and quite frankly good for college basketball. But this man sitting around, all mopey, with his rings is an image I can't shake after seeing these quotes: 

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It was one of those games where the win for Nova mattered way more than the loss for UConn. UConn is going to be fine in the long run. But sometimes you've got to eat shit. Please don't tell John Rich that though. You don't actually have to eat shit. It's strictly a saying in this situation. That's life right now for Alex Karaban until they get to play Georgetown.