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Don Brown to UMass

Eh, UCONN had a better team but UMASS wanted it more. If Brown goes there they’ll win some games like Whipple did. Four to maybe five games. I work at UMASS and what boggles my mind is UCONN has invested so much more but not much more success.
 
gopher2 said:
It was no fluke that UMass beat us by 2 TDs. They gave Army a game on the road yesterday. With Brown they will get sigfnificantly better. Even with Mora and a new staff it may be a while before we can overtake them if they actually get him. I hope we don't come to regret hiring Mora vs Brown.
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silly

It is great for us ... and UMass if we both have solid Programs and Don Brown + Jim Mora succeed. Are you the kind of guys that regret the girl the day after your married?

Mora has what was sketched out for us. My biggest concern is something we need to find in the next few weeks - Northeastern US recruiting + capacity to fluidly embrace the transfer portal. Let me make one guarantee ( with no evidence): We will get better QB play than UMass from now through the next few years.
 
Storrs South said:
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Looks like brown just wanted to be a head coach again bad. Wanted UConn, UConn said no. I think if Brown was 60 he woulda been hired here. It’s going to be interesting. I think Mora is gunna need to learn the area way quicker than normal bc brown could potentially kick his behind on the trail here Initially. Was a nice hire by Umass. I favor Mora still bc I think he can really reel in some nice talent and is more progressive offensively.
 
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Bongo Fury said:
Mora will have more support anyways. I’m sure Charlie Baker ain’t calling him. He could give a F about UMASS.
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Yeah probably why brown wanted UConn. He wants the support. He’s gunna want a nice assistant pool. Facilities. Etc. UConn already had that. But that being said, good for him for not backing down from that challenge.
 
Ajs120102 said:
Yeah probably why brown wanted UConn. He wants the support. He’s gunna want a nice assistant pool. Facilities. Etc. UConn already had that. But that being said, good for him for not backing down from that challenge.
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Nothing to lose. Either it works out and names successor or retires
 



-> Brown will get an increase in salary from what former UMass HC Walt Bell made during his tenure but it will still likely be less than what he would have made at Arizona. The fact that Brown turned down that raise to come back to Massachusetts and take over a program desperate for direction certainly speaks to the desire he has not only to be a head coach but to succeed at UMass.

Word is that the compensation pool for the assistant coaches Brown will hire has also been raised from the previous staff but only in the neighborhood of $500K total. <-
 
huskymedic said:



-> Brown will get an increase in salary from what former UMass HC Walt Bell made during his tenure but it will still likely be less than what he would have made at Arizona. The fact that Brown turned down that raise to come back to Massachusetts and take over a program desperate for direction certainly speaks to the desire he has not only to be a head coach but to succeed at UMass.

Word is that the compensation pool for the assistant coaches Brown will hire has also been raised from the previous staff but only in the neighborhood of $500K total. <-
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What a lack of investment
 
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gopher2 said:
It was no fluke that UMass beat us by 2 TDs. They gave Army a game on the road yesterday. With Brown they will get sigfnificantly better. Even with Mora and a new staff it may be a while before we can overtake them if they actually get him. I hope we don't come to regret hiring Mora vs Brown.
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I was at West Point Saturday - UMass put up a good fight, although most of the Army folks thought that Army might have been looking past UMass towards Army/Navy.
 
huskymedic said:



-> Brown will get an increase in salary from what former UMass HC Walt Bell made during his tenure but it will still likely be less than what he would have made at Arizona. The fact that Brown turned down that raise to come back to Massachusetts and take over a program desperate for direction certainly speaks to the desire he has not only to be a head coach but to succeed at UMass.

Word is that the compensation pool for the assistant coaches Brown will hire has also been raised from the previous staff but only in the neighborhood of $500K total. <-
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$500K total? Wow.
 
If we are really worried about our ability to outcompete UMass on the field or in living rooms, we really need to reassess wth we are doing. This hire was about so much more than beating some regional red-headed stepchild. This is about getting back to where we were 10-15 years ago, not beating the 1 program no conf wants.
 
huskymedic said:
I’m now thinking that has to be a typo/or the way it was written… when they hired Bell it was in the neighborhood of $1.5m +/- so maybe he means it increases $500k from that previous level?
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Agreed - that just doesn't make any sense.
 
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Ajs120102 said:
Looks like brown just wanted to be a head coach again bad. Wanted UConn, UConn said no. I think if Brown was 60 he woulda been hired here. It’s going to be interesting. I think Mora is gunna need to learn the area way quicker than normal bc brown could potentially kick his behind on the trail here Initially. Was a nice hire by Umass. I favor Mora still bc I think he can really reel in some nice talent and is more progressive offensively.
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Mora is just a better fit at this moment. Brown is an OUTSTANDING coach. They will be better and UCONN will benefit from having 2 NE programs getting better.

Remember DB said he thought charisma is an important part of being our HC, I actually think we can get back the sellouts and State to follow our FB team; that's important - plus the recruiting. Don Brown won't have that kind of impact in Central & Western Massachusetts; let alone Boston. This is great.
 
tiger paw said:
RE 2.0 D. Brown 2.0 Can Pasqualoni 2.0 be far behind ?
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Brown has been fairly successful everywhere he's been. He'll have them at least respectable by time his contract is up. P died by his OC choice, but if Brown could bring him as a position coach then that defense is going to be Top 10 in a few years. Edsall only succeed at UConn his first go around. This time (and I had to say it) it was an utter failure in terms of everything.
 
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DoctorWho85 said:
Brown has been fairly successful everywhere he's been. He'll have them at least respectable by time his contract is up. P died by his OC choice, but if Brown could bring him as a position coach then that defense is going to be Top 10 in a few years. Edsall only succeed at UConn his first go around. This time (and I had to say it) it was an utter failure in terms of everything.
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You think UMass is going to have a top 10 defense???
 
Oh crap, now UMass got a P5 invite over UConn? Recruiting for UMass is going to get quite the bump in the PAC12! Those rivalry games with USC and Oregon will be epic.

UConn can just never catch a break!

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JMick said:
You think UMass is going to have a top 10 defense???
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P as a Dline coach and he still can probably recruit so yeah I do. Plus they play a bunch of nobodies that will inflate their stats
 
Good lord, this is what happens when u suck for a decade - dreams of don brown hiring p (whom he bagged out on here) and them both leading a top 10 d while grabbing blue plate specials on Amherst.
 
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