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Message: [QUOTE="huskymedic, post: 5121077, member: 549"] Good read from Andy Staples: [MEDIA=twitter]1859024615760343261[/MEDIA] -> It also helps to have a coach who doesn’t hate all the changes in college sports. Mora, who worked in the NFL for 24 years before he became the head coach at UCLA in 2012, feels quite at home in unlimited transfer/NIL era because it resembles the environment he grew up in as a coach. “My background is the National Football League, which really is somewhat similar to the new structure of college football,” he said. “Your portal resembles free agency. Your draft resembles recruiting. So it doesn’t faze me one bit that there’s been this transformation in college football where money has become an issue. So I’m able to operate in this world very comfortably because I’ve been in it most of his career.” <- -> Mora also has evaluated well with his staff. Most assistants are in their 20s or 30s, and former DBs coach Dalton Hilliard, who played for Mora at UCLA, was the only coach Mora knew before taking the job. Working with a limited budget, Mora opted not to hire old buddies and instead looked for young coaches whose position groups produced impressive stats. He then called around to make sure the assistants taught their position groups well… The age split has helped, the 63-year-old Mora said. “There’s an advantage to that,” Mora said. “They relate really well to the players. We kind of keep each other in line.” <- [/QUOTE]

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