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ShakyTheMohel said:
Go back to college as an OC? I thought he left UCLA and took the OC job at Ohio St, to get away from being a head coach.
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He did. Then took the OC job in the NFL. I’m pretty sure he was one step away from being dumped at UCLA. His best year was 9-4. His final year he went 8-5. He was basically a.500 coach at UCLA. The guy he replaced had a much better record.
 
hardcorehusky said:
If you look at RE's recruits- they did better as they got older (like most recruits). He wasn't here for a lot of these guys last few years, but his last years seniors were his guys. Won a bowl game with them. It's Jimmie and Joe's not X and O's.

The game had passed RE by the time he came back here. If he gets deserved blame, he should get deserved credit and that is some of the recruits he brought in.
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The guy sat Arkeel Newsome in favor of Kevin Mensah. Enough said.
 
ZooCougar said:
He also hired Edsall.
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He also hired Gbandi who has the soccer team back in the Sweet Sixteen. And he doesn't get full blame for 2.0. Let's be real, he had just gotten there.
 


-> 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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freescooter said:
In this vein Chip Kelley just got fired as the Raiders OC. Speculation is he’ll go back to a college program. Good example of a guy who was a hot coach who struggled at UCLA.
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Yeah, UCLA thought they could do better
 
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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.
 
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