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2025-26 Coaching Carousel

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huskymedic said:


-> UConn head coach Jim Mora: The California native, who has already received interest from Stanford and Oregon State in this cycle, has done a remarkable job at UConn, with a second consecutive nine-win season and three bowl appearances in four years after taking over a moribund program. His run as UCLA head coach from 2012 to ‘17 was more successful than his successor, Chip Kelly, and he knows the UC system from that experience. Mora’s NFL career, including two stints as a head coach, also gives him rare experience that can help in college football’s new era. Going back west would make sense, but is Cal a good enough job to make a move? <-
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-> UConn coach Jim Mora also has plenty of experience dealing with the UC system from his days at UCLA. More importantly, the guy has done an amazing job at a really tough place to get people to care about college football. He’s 18-7 the past two years at a program that hadn’t had a winning season since 2010. The 64-year-old Mora, who went 46-30 in six years at UCLA from 2012-17, has deep West Coast roots and was also the coach of the Atlanta Falcons and Seattle Seahawks in the 2000s. There’s interest in Mora in several coaching searches, we’re told, and Cal would be wise to look at him too. <-
 
Cal and Stanford can actually aftord Mora. I just can’t see Oregon State offering him more than what we are paying him.

I think Tosh L. is probably the front runner for Cal and there are probably a couple names higher on the list.

Cal and Stanford are the only ones that concern me at this point.
 
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ZooCougar said:
Why do we have to give Edsall credit for anything?

He drove the program into the depths of despair and set us back a decade. OMG a few recruits turned out good? Amazing.
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His hire was like Pausqualoni. He was a great coach, but the game has evolved passed his philosophies. They were both hired passed their prime and it showed through his ability to recruit and hire coordinators. Granted I thought Crocker was a homerun hire because his defense stopped everyone at Nova. And now we basically have the same 3-3-5 as Crocker and it shows.

We can give him credit for transitioning us to FBS that's really it. Everything else really tarnished his image with UConn history.
 
JwittersPAC said:
It will be interesting to see what Cal and Stanford want in a head coach. In my opinion the better of those two jobs is Stanford since they are willing to commit resources to football.
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Word is Cal has some resources behind the scenes that are about to be deployed.
 
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Has Jim Mora ever hinted about the possibility of leaving? I get the sense he is content at this point in his career to remain at UConn, but is there a chance he could accept an offer to coach elsewhere as Lovallo suggests is very possible? Maybe UConn does need to give him a more lucrative contract.

 
We have our toughest schedule since we were in the Big East coming up next season. We are losing a 1000 yard plus alltime receiver and an over 3000 yard QB. Not sure Cam Edwards will return. UConn had better not lose Coach Mora just based on salary. If we had made Joe Moorhead HC (he is currently 52 yo) instead of PP we would not have hit the levels of futility we did when Edsall left. I hope and pray Coach Mora stays. Not being in a conference is our biggest drawback IMO.
 
SwingDog said:
Has Jim Mora ever hinted about the possibility of leaving? I get the sense he is content at this point in his career to remain at UConn, but is there a chance he could accept an offer to coach elsewhere as Lovallo suggests is very possible? Maybe UConn does need to give him a more lucrative contract.

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Jim Mora’s buyout on his contract after 1/1/2026 is only $750k. Mora appears on the potential head coaching list for all three openings on the West Coast. That said he does not appear to be the number candidate for any of the three schools.
 
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jdb50 said:
We have our toughest schedule since we were in the Big East coming up next season. We are losing a 1000 yard plus alltime receiver and an over 3000 yard QB. Not sure Cam Edwards will return. UConn had better not lose Coach Mora just based on salary. If we had made Joe Moorhead HC (he is currently 52 yo) instead of PP we would not have hit the levels of futility we did when Edsall left. I hope and pray Coach Mora stays. Not being in a conference is our biggest drawback IMO.
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Moorhead wasn’t sought after at that time and was demoted to QB coach with little influence on who started. Whipple along with that defensive likely would have been successful imo.
 
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