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-> After closing its regular season 6-6 with a loss at Army, the UConn football team has three long weeks to wait before learning its fate on bowl selection day Dec. 4. As an independent, there are positives in that the players, coaches too, get time to rest and spend Thanksgiving with their families, but the uncertainty of receiving a bowl bid is “a little discombobulating,” Mora said Sunday. The team will return for a meeting and practice next Monday morning, Nov. 28, in hopes of a 13th game to cap off a season of first-in-a-whiles, checked boxes.<-
->Once the Huskies return to Storrs, there will be a focus on boosting mental toughness – something Mora said the Huskies struggled with in terms of self-inflicted wounds, seven false start penalties the most glaring.
Practices leading up to the potential bowl game will be intense and challenging, intended to make players uncomfortable. “Challenging them to be better, in terms of locking down on the snap count – we can do drills where we’re moving the defensive line around, making them hang in there,” Mora said. “We can also do things to adjust our cadence, now that’s not a mental toughness thing, but that’s a coaching thing where we can adjust our cadence and give ourselves a little more of a chance to not have those negative plays.” <-
->“This will just be football,” Mora said. “And I think it’s really important for us to have these days and should we get a bowl game, then you’re able to kind of split up your time as you lead up to the bowl between time that you really want to work on just your stuff and gameplan specific things that you want to do. So it can be a big boost to our program. “We would certainly use the time wisely to not only prepare for the game we’re playing, but also prepare for the future.”<-
