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Message: [QUOTE="Pudge, post: 4194582, member: 364"] 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. [/QUOTE]

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