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Message: [QUOTE="Rich, post: 4789152, member: 9018"] Yeah, but at Oregon Kelly had zero recruiting restrictions. At UCLA he has to deal with the academic lobby influencing everything he does which constrains his team building options. It was bad enough in the PAC12, but in the Big 10 it's going to become completely untenable. That's a low key REALLY hard job......there are very, very few institutions where you can both maintain a high academic profile and recruit high level FBS players. Notre Dame, Michigan, Duke and Wake Forest occasionally, maybe UNC. Other than that though it's well nigh impossible. The point of bringing him to UCONN is he'd be free of the fictitious duality; academics are important to the administration and per Mora our 'footprint' doesn't produce high end high school kids so the thought is you bring in Kelly for his creativity and allow him to cook with the roster at his disposal sans recruiting pressures. Could work, who knows? I think he and Mora are roughly the same age so they could vibe. In any event based on his presser it sounds like the entire coaching staff is gonna be turned over as well as a substantial portion of the roster....I'm intrigued to see if Mora can make good his promise to turn the program with 'portal kids' and get some 'hard asses' into the (assume this means coaches and players) program. It was pretty clear to me based on his comments about the JMU players' physiology and physicality that he has come to the conclusion the team needs to get bigger, faster and stronger. Buckle up. [/QUOTE]

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