2022 > Jim Mora era begins… | Page 2 | The Boneyard

2022 > Jim Mora era begins…

.-.
Pudge said:
MANIACAL Effort

See: this is by design. You have a 1-11 returning team with a dollop of new infused talent. But the special sauce is ... young coaching energy ripping through these early days. UMASS + Temple have new staffs; Buffalo too. We - MORA - grabbed 30-35 year olds. The enthusiasm and push. You don't have 20-30 year coaching veterans with that much juice.

There is a video we can all watch of HC Don Brown doing this mat drill at UMASS. A 66 year old (trust me - I am not that far from his grey) is just not the same as Coach Diabate leading his drill. Just looks foolish.
Expand ...
It would be interesting to know whether Mora was dead set that the assistance coaching roster had to get younger, or whether going younger was an attempt to save money to allow the huge increase in non-coaching football personnel that we’ve seen.
 
businesslawyer said:
It would be interesting to know whether Mora was dead set that the assistance coaching roster had to get younger, or whether going younger was an attempt to save money to allow the huge increase in non-coaching football personnel that we’ve seen.
Expand ...
Can it be an AND?
 
businesslawyer said:
That “soft looking bunch of players” totally dominated us on both sides of the line of scrimmage last season. Just sayin ….
Expand ...
Beat me to that. In the end, the be-all and end-all are the on-the-field results. Full stop.
 
businesslawyer said:
It would be interesting to know whether Mora was dead set that the assistance coaching roster had to get younger, or whether going younger was an attempt to save money to allow the huge increase in non-coaching football personnel that we’ve seen.
Expand ...

Having started businesses from scratch (and they are production driven decentralized) ... and given this thought over the last few months, I say confidently that Mora did this by design. Look at the comparables. Take 8 new coaching regimes and think about the structure of each. Look at what Edsall/Pasqualoni/Diaco did at Connecticut. The selections (given he had Mazzone + Spanos + a West Coast network) is very interesting ... and we have few clues. But, he did something that none of the others I thought about did. (Buffalo, UMass, Temple, Delaware, FIU, UVA, VaTech, Duke) It has some geographic spread; with some new areas to anything UConn has surveyed in the last 20 years. But - except Spanos + Allen - there is a typology. And he certainly could have found an extra $50k here or there to get 45 year old/20year experience assistants. The money argument is refuted when you see about 7 or 8 new staff positions.

Started with Charlton. Barthel is well known and how West Coast Mora connects with Allen/Barthel/Diabite is odd networking. From his home in Sun Valley, ID. I think both Spanos + Mazzone was helpful in an advisory role; plus we know AD Dave Benedict is near always when football was involved. Watching these practices leads me to the next gut feel ... energy from 35 year olds is a whole lot different than top down Edsall coaching. Mora invests in these young coaches AND gave them more oomph in recruiting/crafting the roster than we have seen before.
 
.-.
.-.
CL82 said:
Oh no. They dominated last year’s team.
Expand ...
They dominated last years team where Spanos basically gave up the defensive coordinator duties to be HC. I fully believe the defense is going to night and day difference this year. They won't be shackled by Edsall who had to have his hands in everything. The offense will cannot be any worse than it was last year so only makes the defense better and the schedule is marginally easier.
 
DoctorWho85 said:
They dominated last years team where Spanos basically gave up the defensive coordinator duties to be HC. I fully believe the defense is going to night and day difference this year. They won't be shackled by Edsall who had to have his hands in everything. The offense will cannot be any worse than it was last year so only makes the defense better and the schedule is marginally easier.
Expand ...
I hope so. The last decade of UConn football has left me very skeptical of preseason optimism.
 
CL82 said:
I hope so. The last decade of UConn football has left me very skeptical of preseason optimism.
Expand ...
Take the defense out of it for a second. Look at the offense when Mazzone schemed for Tyler and to a lesser extend Krejewski. That offense was exciting, making play, scoring and most importantly staying on the field. We have a OC that runs an offense that will be similar to that and we have 3 QB's ( Roberson, Tyler and Zion) that fit that system. Even if the defense moves up to say the low 90's to high 80's at best, the offense is going to be able to keep us in games.
 
It
DoctorWho85 said:
Take the defense out of it for a second. Look at the offense when Mazzone schemed for Tyler and to a lesser extend Krejewski. That offense was exciting, making play, scoring and most importantly staying on the field. We have a OC that runs an offense that will be similar to that and we have 3 QB's ( Roberson, Tyler and Zion) that fit that system. Even if the defense moves up to say the low 90's to high 80's at best, the offense is going to be able to keep us in games.
Expand ...
I hear you, it’s just gonna be a while before I can buy in.
 
CL82 said:
I hope so. The last decade of UConn football has left me very skeptical of preseason optimism.
Expand ...
Yeah, I'd be careful with any statements of "things cannot get worse". I watched the Fiesta Bowl from Yale, NH Hospital where my daughter had just been born. She's 11, and there have been too many instances of "it can't get worse", only to see the bar lowered. But i am hopeful that we got us the right coach. Time will tell.
 
.-.
noeynox said:
Yeah, I'd be careful with any statements of "things cannot get worse". I watched the Fiesta Bowl from Yale, NH Hospital where my daughter had just been born. She's 11, and there have been too many instances of "it can't get worse", only to see the bar lowered. But i am hopeful that we got us the right coach. Time will tell.
Expand ...
If anyone posts that, that is inevitably met by a reply from me saying “don’t say that, don’t ever say that“.

Don’t get me wrong, I think that Jim Mora is an outstanding choice and I’m very hopeful, but … the last decade has taken it’s toll. I really need to see improvement on the field.
 
J187Money said:
They are crushing social media. I know none of it counts until we see it turn into results on the field, and I've TRIED not to get excited, but each post is getting me more and more HPYED UP!!
Expand ...
LOL. You're a grown man. Social media gets you excited?

Mora to date has been very professional. Good for him. I mean that. It's better than not being professoinal But I'll believe that our players being pushed around at the line of scrimmage against UMass had nothing to do with the players and everything to do with Edsall, who had been gone for over a month at that point, when the players convince me they can compete. Not when someone sends out a nice tweet.
 
J187Money said:
They are crushing social media. I know none of it counts until we see it turn into results on the field, and I've TRIED not to get excited, but each post is getting me more and more HPYED UP!!
Expand ...
As the Legend said, "Football is 90% mental and the other half is physical."

It's all in the attitude and the revolution is bringing an entirely new ballgame.
 
DoctorWho85 said:
We have a OC that runs an offense that will be similar to that and we have 3 QB's ( Roberson, Tyler and Zion) that fit that system. Even if the defense moves up to say the low 90's to high 80's at best, the offense is going to be able to keep us in games.
Expand ...
We have 4
 
.-.
You must log in or register to reply here.

Forum statistics

Threads
168,202
Messages
4,556,680
Members
10,442
Latest member
Virginiafan


Top Bottom