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Jim Mora’s new staff coming together…

Is there an Athletic Director of the Year Award?

Obviously, in the end the wins on the field will matter, but Benedict isn’t sitting on his ass with these coaching hires. It seems more and more like he hoped Edsall 2.0 would give him time to find “HIS” guy. As 2.0 struggled, Benedict was working in earnest behind the scenes to make football a pillar of the UConn brand.

Say what you want about him, Benedict cares about UConn and he doesn’t just talk about it. He gets -ish done.
 
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looks like Corey dropped "UConn" from his bio
 
Exit 4 said:
So anyone want to update their forecast on retained staff? At this hour looking/feeling closer to zero…
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Unfortunately with nearly zero success on the playing field, its not really a surprise.... we might like some of the coaches a ton, but, bottom line, you gotta be competitive out there.... win more than a few games, show progress out there. Just wasn't happening
 
ktuck911 said:
Didn't see this coming... happy about it though.
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Listen to his presser from yesterday, he hinted about it. It’s subtle, but given how detail oriented he has been publicly, I strongly suspected that he was equally detail oriented and proactive outside of the public eye.

Still too soon to say, but it sure looks like we got a good one.
 
Don't love the Charlton hire on paper based his results -- he had pretty mediocre offenses at Maine, even by CAA standards (pretty much 5th every year in scoring). Love a lot of the other things (previous HC experience, NE guy, young). With that said our offense cannot be worse so welcome Nick!
 
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Not that it was reflected in the prior staff, but all these northeastern hires seem to foretell a return to north east recruiting. We have to get back into NJ..temple is down and Rutty has its struggles. I’m guessing Mora will never limit his search for players per se, but every staff has to have some focus and that means reducing time in some areas and increasing it in others. Wonder what this means for us in TX. Seems like our TX efforts will decline (inability to schedule games their not helping), but maybe I am wrong.
 
An OC and lots of offensive coaches named so far.

Am I seeing it correctly that on the defensive side of the ball only the LB coach has been named? Gotta believe the DC is already in place. Otherwise odd to tell a DC who their LB coach will be.
 
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ThabeetDown said:
Don't love the Charlton hire on paper based his results -- he had pretty mediocre offenses at Maine, even by CAA standards (pretty much 5th every year in scoring). Love a lot of the other things (previous HC experience, NE guy, young). With that said our offense cannot be worse so welcome Nick!
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Thing I like about this hire is he's been a head coach at a competitive level with quite a bit of FBS coaching experience in today's game... the younger version Chesney who wants to learn even more... he's not completely ready to run a FBS level program, but willing to take a step back in order to get there
 
Like the idea (in theory) of hiring a FCS head coach as a coordinator. Northeast routes.. in his year as OC at Maine they knocked off a FBS team and reached the semifinals of the FCS playoffs as the 12 seed. But only one year of experience as the OC... so certainly reasonable to raise some eyebrows.
 
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BlueandOG said:
Fair enough.
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Wouldn’t that be some if Spanos got the foot in the door for Mora and then Mora said thanks but no thanks. Doesn’t mean that happened but if it did can’t wait to hear about it!
 
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