Jim Mora’s new staff coming together…
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We spent a lot of time discussing how Warde was reactive to things going on around him. Can't say that about DB after the Hurley and Mora hires. Moving on Mora early was downright visionary.
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Has got to then transcend these moves into better Players. More creative insightful ways to get the right Line and the WR playmakers. And ... the key still is the QB position. And then Charlton has a voice; but I think we still have the Mazzone insight on Phommachanh. We need elements of tremendous improvement in specific positional need.
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it's hilarious
ALL of the prep schools that matter to us today (as opposed to 15-18 years ago when it was just Milford) are a short drive to Storrs. Without looking at the roster, I don't think we really have much yield from those in the last 10 years. RVD came from the Hun program in NJ; and we got a few others. But cmon ... what do I like about these programs? It is a grade significantly above the HS programs in NE & NY.
ALL of the prep schools that matter to us today (as opposed to 15-18 years ago when it was just Milford) are a short drive to Storrs. Without looking at the roster, I don't think we really have much yield from those in the last 10 years. RVD came from the Hun program in NJ; and we got a few others. But cmon ... what do I like about these programs? It is a grade significantly above the HS programs in NE & NY.
Underwhelmed by his resume' and got his head coach fired......WR Coach John Allen:
John Allen - Football Coach - LA Tech Athletics
John Allen enters his second season as the outside receivers coach after being formally announced on Feb. 3, 2020 by Louisiana Tech head coach Skip Holtz. Inlatechsports.com
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Nice! We need this kind of pedigree embedded on our staff. He gets it.
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It was loosely reported when I asked this. Now things are clearer with him. A team favorite @ Michigan. Should fit in nicely with us as DL coach. Happy to have him.
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Hopefully should be nice to have an OC that has called plays. Some have questioned if Lashlee did prior to UCONN.
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Underwhelmed by his resume' and got his head coach fired......
I don't know how to place emoticons in this thread. But I would go eyesrolling on this.
YOU know what? cmon ... give me something>? Skip Holtz was a very successful tenure at Louisiana Tech - that's a fact. And this guy Allen? Was at Old Dominion until recent. Zyskowski has to have been around him. WHO did he mentor as Players? There is a list of guys at LA Tech and ODU on his resume on the Louisiana Tech. Methinks we need a bunch of tall 6-3plus guys plus Clercius; Cameron Ross to come back; Keelan Marion to improve. And there's the task. I am not underwhelmed.
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Hands down my favorite add to the staff. Michigan fans out this way not happy with him leaving. Big thing though is we finally are out of the old retread of tired coaches who are just here for a paycheck or a favor from our former head coach.
Coaches are going hungry and willing to bring. The fun back got the game of football.
No announcement on a tight ends coach yet..........rooting for Corey even though there's little chance.
Given you get 10 total assistants that would indicate that there are three unknown, presumably: DC, OL & (likely) ST
That would be my assumption. The OC would typically work more closely with the QB than any other personnel group anyways as he tries to teach the principles of the offense they want to run.. and historically it was the role he had when he was last an OC.
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I say hire a completely new staff. Our Defense and offence sucked !!!
Based on the UConn press release, no one on the previous staff was retained.
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I don't feel bad for anyone, they couldn't do it on the field so they are gone !
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I think our uniforms need a total revamp too. Somebody should start a thread.
If you ever want a trip down memory lane about UConn football, some of the greats we had and how much has changed all you have to do is look at the two years Rick Forzano was Head Coach and compare it to today.
Three future NFL Head Coaches, one NFL Coordinator and one NFL Assistant, plus a great UConn baseball coach all there in 1965 when we went 3-6 and beat Yale for the first time. Wonder what the future might have been if we retained them?
Forzano was named Yankee Conference coach of the year after going 4-4-1 in 1964, and moved on to his first NFL job in 1966.
Forzano, Holtz and Rutigliano went on to be Head Coaches in the NFL (among other positions in college and the NFL), and Sekanovich was a position coach and Adolph was a position coach and Coordinator in the NFL. Baylock spent all but one year at UConn as a baseball coach, both as an assistant and as a very successful Head Coach for 24 years.
The six coaches in the photo were probably all there were for staff too. No recruiting coordinators, no analysts, no nothing.
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Let’s have Mora bring some of that UCLA bold uni flair.
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I think we have excellent uniforms especially the all whites. The helmets need figuring out
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Not as much as UConn's opponents will miss it.