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Colorado State is expected to make UConn coach Jim Mora the school’s next head coach.

Nameless said:
MIllen sounds like another ignorant clown. "It's the type of job you have to stand on the sidelines to realize how bad it is." Lmao. Yeah I'm sure our stadium for the Duke and Air Force games had a really boring atmosphere. Mora will enjoy coaching in front of nobody in Fort Collins so much more.

I am also so tired of hearing people trash our facilities and call theirs better. It just isn't the case, 90+% of the time people make the claim. Our facilities are as good or better than the majority of FBS. If they're worse it's marginally worse and not worth noting. It's like someone made the claim when we were in our down years, and it stuck just because we were so bad back then people assumed it must be true.

If you trust the article, it does sound like Mora left because he would have access to the playoff there if his team performs.
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He left for the mountains and family. Full stop.
 
Nameless said:
MIllen sounds like another ignorant clown. "It's the type of job you have to stand on the sidelines to realize how bad it is." Lmao. Yeah I'm sure our stadium for the Duke and Air Force games had a really boring atmosphere. Mora will enjoy coaching in front of nobody in Fort Collins so much more.

I am also so tired of hearing people trash our facilities and call theirs better. It just isn't the case, 90+% of the time people make the claim. Our facilities are as good or better than the majority of FBS. If they're worse it's marginally worse and not worth noting. It's like someone made the claim when we were in our down years, and it stuck just because we were so bad back then people assumed it must be true.

If you trust the article, it does sound like Mora left because he would have access to the playoff there if his team performs.
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You've already shown why we wouldn't trust 90% of the article and then finish with a statement that we should trust the final 10%. I'm with you, the man sounds ignorant, and maybe more to the point, trying to sell CSU. That's fine. He wrote a salesmanlike piece for His own motivations.

Our job, when we've already recognized how much is wrong with it, is not to buy it...
 
ZooCougar said:
They only have a 70 yard indoor practice area. Millen was one of the worst QBs in NFL history too.

Cole Millen was a waste of scholarship. All he did was come out for trick plays. He couldn't even function as a QB and was behind High School age Zion Turner.
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Millen is a joke and doesn't know what he is talking about.

Let's compare football facilities:

UConn 120 yard indoor field, CSU 70 yard indoor field.
UConn's practice facility = 85k ft2, CSU practice facility = 72k ft2 (includes other sports)

Max height of indoor practice facility:
UConn = 107 feet
CSU = 65 feet

UConn weight room = 18k ft2, CSU weight room = 9.1k ft2
 
UConnJim said:
Millen is a joke and doesn't know what he is talking about.

Let's compare football facilities:

UConn 120 yard indoor field, CSU 70 yard indoor field.
UConn's practice facility = 85k ft2, CSU practice facility = 72k ft2 (includes other sports)

Max height of indoor practice facility:
UConn = 107 feet
CSU = 65 feet

UConn weight room = 18k ft2, CSU weight room = 9.1k ft2
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Yes, and every square inch is meticulous and updated. It’s garbage. And by the way, people disagreed with me about CSU having no fans in the seats and claiming they average 33k. How’d that work out for you yesterday? Lol.

We were literally just named the non P4 with the best home field advantage two weeks ago by one of the networks.

Yeah, any job looks bad when no one is in the stadium because the team sucks. That’s why no one was at the CSU game yesterday. They suck. Maybe, if Hugh Millen’s kid could play he would have helped us put some butts in the seats when he was with us.
 
UConnDan97 said:
You've already shown why we wouldn't trust 90% of the article and then finish with a statement that we should trust the final 10%. I'm with you, the man sounds ignorant, and maybe more to the point, trying to sell CSU. That's fine. He wrote a salesmanlike piece for His own motivations.

Our job, when we've already recognized how much is wrong with it, is not to buy it...
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"If you trust the article" =/= "you should trust the article." I do understand how me ending the post that way could make it seem that I did trust what he was saying, so sorry for not being more clear.

So, to clarify I'm not sure what to believe. I want to believe the family and mountains narrative. My gut tells me there's more to it than that and it's a convenient excuse. We have our biases just as Millen does, we finally built our reputation back up a bit and then he leaves us for what most of us feel is a lesser program. Of course most of us, as fans, would want to accept it's just a lifestyle change and move on. I'm not going to talk about all of the odd social media stuff that's occurred since he's left, because it's been discussed and nauseum on here and one can easily look too much into social media posts. But I think there's just as much evidence to support the narrative something happened to make him not want to be here and forced the move, than he was just tired of not being in the mountains. The family angle doesn't even make since to me, considering he has family in the NYC metro area but the closest family he has out west is in California, nowhere near Colorado.

Which is the crux of what I'm getting at; all people have been doing since he left is narrative weaving. At least this dude attributed quotes to Mora. Someone could ask Jim to confirm or deny what was said, if they really wanted to. It's at least a lead and not pure speculation. Again, I'm not saying we should just take what he said at face value and accept it as fact. But again, he quoted the man. It's easy enough to disprove what he wrote if it really wasn't said. I'm really just trying to look at this objectively.
 
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Nameless said:
"If you trust the article" =/= "you should trust the article." I do understand how me ending the post that way could make it seem that I did trust what he was saying, so sorry for not being more clear.

So, to clarify I'm not sure what to believe. I want to believe the family and mountains narrative. My gut tells me there's more to it than that and it's a convenient excuse. We have our biases just as Millen does, we finally built our reputation back up a bit and then he leaves us for what most of us feel is a lesser program. Of course most of us, as fans, would want to accept it's just a lifestyle change and move on. I'm not going to talk about all of the odd social media stuff that's occurred since he's left, because it's been discussed and nauseum on here and one can easily look too much into social media posts. But I think there's just as much evidence to support the narrative something happened to make him not want to be here and forced the move, than he was just tired of not being in the mountains. The family angle doesn't even make since to me, considering he has family in the NYC metro area but the closest family he has out west is in California, nowhere near Colorado.

Which is the crux of what I'm getting at; all people have been doing since he left is narrative weaving. At least this dude attributed quotes to Mora. Someone could ask Jim to confirm or deny what was said, if they really wanted to. It's at least a lead and not pure speculation. Again, I'm not saying we should just take what he said at face value and accept it as fact. But again, he quoted the man. It's easy enough to disprove what he wrote if it really wasn't said. I'm really just trying to look at this objectively.
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People said "maybe he rented here for 4 years because some people like to rent." They didn't bother to look up the fact that he had bought a house in Yarrow Point Washington during his time with the Seahawks and he bought a house in Hermoso Beach during his time at UCLA, etc. He was never going to stay long-term. Whatever manner that people choose to spin the narrative about why else it could have been is just their spin.

Often times, the most obvious explanation is the correct one...
 
UConnDan97 said:
People said "maybe he rented here for 4 years because some people like to rent." They didn't bother to look up the fact that he had bought a house in Yarrow Point Washington during his time with the Seahawks and he bought a house in Hermoso Beach during his time at UCLA, etc. He was never going to stay long-term. Whatever manner that people choose to spin the narrative about why else it could have been is just their spin.

Often times, the most obvious explanation is the correct one...
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You're somehow still missing the point. That was when he was a much younger man and was raising his family with his first wife who is the mother of his kids.

Nobody thought he was going to live the rest of his life in Connecticut. It probably just made more sense for him financially to rent.
 
superjohn said:
You're somehow still missing the point. That was when he was a much younger man and was raising his family with his first wife who is the mother of his kids.

Nobody thought he was going to live the rest of his life in Connecticut. It probably just made more sense for him financially to rent.
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Your second paragraph starts with the actual point I was making. And yet folks here are shocked that he didn't stay. That's it. That's the entirety of the point. Doesn't matter if it made financial sense or not (it didn't; he would have made his money back). It's all irrelevant to the fact that his final stay was not going to be in the Northeast...
 
UConnDan97 said:
Your second paragraph starts with the actual point I was making. And yet folks here are shocked that he didn't stay. That's it. That's the entirety of the point. Doesn't matter if it made financial sense or not (it didn't; he would have made his money back). It's all irrelevant to the fact that his final stay was not going to be in the Northeast...
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We don't know why he left, I'm sure it was a number of factors. My only point was there's nothing to glean from him renting in Connecticut as opposed to owning in Connecticut. Of course renting made financial sense, he would've made more money with his money sitting in the market than he would buying a house and all the costs that go along with home ownership. We know he loves it out west so whether he stayed here two or three more years and retired or took a job out west for his final few years he was always going to move out west when he was finished coaching.

It would make perfect sense for someone in his stage of life to rent instead of buy a house in a state he wasn't going to stay in forever no matter what. I think he probably thought we were getting into the Big 12 and he would've stayed here a few more years until he retired but we never got an invite.
 
Was he paying rent for that house which was the old President's house? It could have been provided as part of his contract because we were only paying him $1,000,000 when he was hired.
 
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UConnDan97 said:
People said "maybe he rented here for 4 years because some people like to rent." They didn't bother to look up the fact that he had bought a house in Yarrow Point Washington during his time with the Seahawks and he bought a house in Hermoso Beach during his time at UCLA, etc. He was never going to stay long-term. Whatever manner that people choose to spin the narrative about why else it could have been is just their spin.

Often times, the most obvious explanation is the correct one...
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Being shocked that he left has nothing to do with anything I'm saying. At all. No kidding he was eventually going to leave, a lot of us were talking about Stanford potentially poaching him literally a day before he left. Sorry, I'm not trying to be rude. I just want to make that clear.

The narrative I'm referring to came out of Storrs Central. As far as I'm aware, the whole narrative that he left to be closer to family and in the mountains came from a thread on Storrs Central. The same thread stated it was an open secret in the building he was looking to leave and Benedict already had a list of candidates ready to go. I'm not on SC so if I'm mistaken, someone please correct me. But I'm pretty sure, if you pour through this thread you can find posts stating so.

At the time, that sounded nice. It was comforting. But I'm gonna call BS at this point. It was an open secret and Benedict already had a list of candidates ready? Well why haven't we heard anything about even potential candidates after almost a week? All we have is speculation from people like Richard Kent and posters on X. If it was an "open secret" why have reports recently come out about some of his players being blindsided by this? If family is important to him, why leave his family in the NYC metro area to be hundreds of miles away from his closest family member?

It's just too easy to poke holes in that narrative for it to be the whole truth. "The most obvious explanation" can be totally subjective, it's a matter of perspective. I haven't seen a good answer to any of the 3 questions I posed above. Therefore I don't see it as an "obvious explanation" but rather a "BS narrative." That doesn't mean I think there's no truth to it, he may very well like living in the mountains. But there's clearly more to it than that.

There's a reason a lot of us have a gut feeling there is more to this story than we are being told. The narrative we are being sold doesn't hold up under scrutiny.
 
Nameless said:
Being shocked that he left has nothing to do with anything I'm saying. At all. No kidding he was eventually going to leave, a lot of us were talking about Stanford potentially poaching him literally a day before he left. Sorry, I'm not trying to be rude. I just want to make that clear.

The narrative I'm referring to came out of Storrs Central. As far as I'm aware, the whole narrative that he left to be closer to family and in the mountains came from a thread on Storrs Central. The same thread stated it was an open secret in the building he was looking to leave and Benedict already had a list of candidates ready to go. I'm not on SC so if I'm mistaken, someone please correct me. But I'm pretty sure, if you pour through this thread you can find posts stating so.

At the time, that sounded nice. It was comforting. But I'm gonna call BS at this point. It was an open secret and Benedict already had a list of candidates ready? Well why haven't we heard anything about even potential candidates after almost a week? All we have is speculation from people like Richard Kent and posters on X. If it was an "open secret" why have reports recently come out about some of his players being blindsided by this? If family is important to him, why leave his family in the NYC metro area to be hundreds of miles away from his closest family member?

It's just too easy to poke holes in that narrative for it to be the whole truth. "The most obvious explanation" can be totally subjective, it's a matter of perspective. I haven't seen a good answer to any of the 3 questions I posed above. Therefore I don't see it as an "obvious explanation" but rather a "BS narrative." That doesn't mean I think there's no truth to it, he may very well like living in the mountains. But there's clearly more to it than that.

There's a reason a lot of us have a gut feeling there is more to this story than we are being told. The narrative we are being sold doesn't hold up under scrutiny.
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If I’m not wrong from the Denver Post article boosters from CSU were in contact with Mora. It stated they were in contact 10-12 days ago which the season was still going on. It could be tampering.
 
Bandito2025 said:
If I’m not wrong from the Denver Post article boosters from CSU were in contact with Mora. It stated they were in contact 10-12 days ago which the season was still going on. It could be tampering.
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Most college football coaches let their AD know when they are going through the interview process just like the coaches that DB is going to interview.
 
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UCHuskies08 said:
I don't understand how we could do an on campus football stadium unless they build a new highway to Storrs at the same time. Thinking about the traffic on 195 and 44.... 😨
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6 times a year. Big deal. And many Boneyarders may not care, but the coaches, students and players hate the off campus stadium. Mora mentioned it to his friend Millen. It adds to the perception of the program as a not-serious one
 
PackTheRent said:
6 times a year. Big deal. And many Boneyarders may not care, but the coaches, students and players hate the off campus stadium. Mora mentioned it to his friend Millen. It adds to the perception of the program as a not-serious one
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Unfortunately the Rent will be home for quite awhile not sure if UConn has the space or the roads for traffic in place especially if UConn football becomes huge and joins a big conference.
 
PackTheRent said:
6 times a year. Big deal. And many Boneyarders may not care, but the coaches, students and players hate the off campus stadium. Mora mentioned it to his friend Millen. It adds to the perception of the program as a not-serious one
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It wasn’t a concern for him while at UCLA which just means he was looking for reasons to justify his actions.
 
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