Jim Mora Duke Postgame Presser

[RioDog]

The last 90 seconds is impressive. He really lays into the ACC.

Sorry but not impressive. A side show at best. I'll give HCJM the benefit of the doubt that its not a smokescreen to obscure poor leadership and coaching. For now.

 

[JustbrewitMan]

"This is a long journey. I was discouraged when I came in here last week. I'm not discouraged coming in here this week. I feel hope again, and I think our team feels hope again which is, I know, you can just say "What are you talking about? You just got beat 41-7." But I've coached enough football games to know when things are, there's an undercurrent that's leading to something good, and I also know when there's an undercurrent that's leading to something bad, and there's an undercurrent (here) that's leading to something good. That's what my experience as a football coach, where being involved in this profession for every day that I've been alive, tells me."

I want to believe this. I really really do. But I saw or felt nothing like what he was talking about.

I saw a team lacking hustle, lacking the desire & will to fight hard, even though they were clearly the less talented team.

I also saw an offense that ran some of the worst plays imaginable at the worst possible times. It was an absolute sheet-show.

JMU & Utah State are in a 45-38 shootout in the 4th quarter.

Rice & USF just played a 42-29 game.

BC has put up 24+ in every game.

We are so screwed…

 

[F101Voodoo]

Is Mora a long time friend of Carlton?

 

[maple]

I want to trust in HCJM but just watching the games with my own eyes … I think I’ve seen this film before.

 

[sdb1989]

Is Mora a long time friend of Carlton?

Yup best buds

 

[Patman]

This is flashback

We used to. We need to win to fill the seats and we can absolutely win as an Indy with good coaching. We have a huge problem with offensive coaching. Huge. We are totally inept.

Edsall 1.0 wasn't feasting on 3 stars, he was making 2 stars into NFL players. Even then if he's getting 3s now as freshmen it will take time.

 

[SwingDog]

FULL AUDIO HERE.

 

[JMick]

No matter whether it is a mid week or post game press conference, no one ever asks about Charlton. Why?

Our reporters suck. They basically have no inside sources (of at least refuse to quote them) and they play with kids gloves. I get going easy on a program if you're getting tons of access but they get nothing and don't ask tough questions.

 

[Travelman6]

Well I guess the B12 presidents feel (even more) vindicated now ...

 

[UCFBfan]

Tough to beat teams with 4/5 star recruits with mostly 3 star G5 recruits. Football is such a massive investment in coaching and University support. It's made that much harder not being in a conference.
Kids want to play on National TV in front of a full stadium - UConn doesn't offer that....for football .
Basketball checks all those boxes- that's why the men's and women's programs are so successful.

Enough with this. We should be fielding a competent team that can beat teams like Georgia St and especially FIU with ease. Yet look at GSU. Their stadium was empty yet they crushed us with players who were likely ranked lower than our players coming out of HS.

Are we at a disadvantage vs P5 programs? Yes. However, that's not an excuse for why we are not even a respectable team who can beat lower tier teams with ease. Currently WE are that lower tier team that others look at it and are saying that there is no way they should lose to us.

 

[Stinger92860]

Don’t need the entire staff to leave, just those that think third and long deep in our end of the field is the key to winning the game.

and time for a run into the line…

 

[LoyalFanCT]

I still support Mora but I would be more sympathetic to his statements if we scored at least one additional touchdown and Duke scored at least one less touchdown in saturdays game.

 

[superjohn]

How does anyone feel anything good after listening to that?

 

[Seamus84]

Dope smoking can certainly give one the feeling of a positive undercurrent even while being pulled under and drowning. These are the comments of a man with no plan but to sell sunshine while it’s pouring.

Interesting coincidence that the audio started at 4:20….

 

[nycscooby]

Our reporters suck. They basically have no inside sources (of at least refuse to quote them) and they play with kids gloves. I get going easy on a program if you're getting tons of access but they get nothing and don't ask tough questions.

1000%. They are totally useless. I haven’t heard a tough question in yesrs. The Horde? Nah, more like the Bored.

 

[KryHavok]

Well I guess the B12 presidents feel (even more) vindicated now ...

This is another thing that enrages me. Did they just see UConn as liostick on a pig, hence the snub again? I wonder, had the invite come, would the boys be playing with greater motivation? A record of 3-1 or 2-2 with close losses maybe has them rethinking the snub. At 0-4, they can claim they were right.

 

[RedStickHusky]

The undercurrent I saw was Roberson standing and watching a ball on the ground bounce past him... either he can't play or he doesn't want to.

 

[uconnfan68]

The undercurrent I saw was Roberson standing and watching a ball on the ground bounce past him... either he can't play or he doesn't want to.

A loose ball that his poor toss caused. That's when I stopped watching.

 

[shizzle787]

The last 90 seconds is impressive. He really lays into the ACC.

Which is bad because the ACC schools are really helping us fill out our independent schedule.

 

[Kolumbo]

Which is bad because the ACC schools are really helping us fill out our independent schedule.

I've had it with the acc. It's a fubar conference, has no interest in UConn, and pulls crap like yesterday. UConn Football is obviously struggling so the acc has to pull a bs move to screw one of our best players. UConn doesn't need that kind of help.

 

[wingsfan055]

I've had enough of Mora. Today's effort and performance was unacceptable. And he doesn't acknowledge it. Instead he give us some meta nonsense about undercurrents and feeling good. All the players on the sideline had their heads-down and weren't talking to each other. That isn't good undercurrents.

He's all talk and no action. He should have been pulling his sleeves up from Day 1 and leveraging the Portal to turnover the roster and bring in some hungry talent. He didn't. Instead, he made a poor choice for OC and took a hands off approach to coaching and developing players.

Wrong choice by the AD. The players have quit on him.

 

[AllHusky]

This is another thing that enrages me. Did they just see UConn as liostick on a pig, hence the snub again? I wonder, had the invite come, would the boys be playing with greater motivation? A record of 3-1 or 2-2 with close losses maybe has them rethinking the snub. At 0-4, they can claim they were right.

Yeah, some where in the background the B12 debacle is playing a role, what how or why, who knows, but seems like it’s there, all the way from the players through the fans. How is DB feeling?

 

[SwingDog]

Perhaps fortunately, I did not get to see the game although I heard it on radio. There is a major discrepancy between what Coach Mora is saying and what many here are saying. He says he's proud of the way the team fought, yet many here are saying the opposite, that they were disappointed by the lack of hustle. What gives? Is Mora suddenly looking through rose colored glasses? If so, why? The last couple of weeks he was critical of the team and seemed brutally honest in his assessment, but this week, except for citing dropped balls by receivers, he really wasn't. He's saying he has more hope now than last week, and saved the majority of his criticism for the officials. Why the shift? Someone care to help me sort this out?

 

[gtcam]

Yeah, some where in the background the B12 debacle is playing a role, what how or why, who knows, but seems like it’s there, all the way from the players through the fans. How is DB feeling?

AD David Benedict is feeling nothing. He was in the seat when UConn rejoined the NBE so he will be basking in that forever.
His chances of being a AD at a SEC school are very small so he is milking the NBE cow as long as possible.
I don't care for him at all since I first met him at a donors event when he came aboard- narcissism to the brim

 

[JMick]

Perhaps fortunately, I did not get to see the game although I heard it on radio. There is a major discrepancy between what Coach Mora is saying and what many here are saying. He says he's proud of the way the team fought, yet many here are saying the opposite, that they were disappointed by the lack of hustle. What gives? Is Mora looking through rose colored glasses? If so, why? The last couple of weeks he was critical of the team and seemed brutally honest in his assessment, but this week, except for citing dropped balls by receivers, he really wasn't. He saved the majority of his criticism for the officials. Why the shift? Someone care to help me sort this out?

I'm guessing he's trying not to totally lose the team

 

[BlueandOG]

I'm guessing he's trying not to totally lose the team

Totally agree. Effective leaders try to find the silver lining. If the leader quits, it is over.

 

[SwingDog]

Totally agree. Effective leaders try to find the silver lining. If the leader quits, it is over.

I agree that it is important to be able identify progress and point out the good things, even when things aren't going well, but to suddenly pivot from constructive criticism ("we are not a good football team right now") to "I have hope...this team has hope" after getting throttled 41-7, and after losing your first four games? I suppose Mora figures they don't need tough love rignt now but if giving an honest assessment rather than coddling means losing someone, maybe that player or assistant coach is part of the problem.

 

[huskymedic]

I'm guessing he's trying not to totally lose the team

Totally agree. Effective leaders try to find the silver lining. If the leader quits, it is over.

I agree that it is important to be able identify progress and point out the good things, even when things aren't going well, but to suddenly pivot from constructive criticism ("we are not a good football team right now") to "I have hope...this team has hope" after getting throttled 41-7, and after losing your first four games? I suppose Mora figures they don't need tough love rignt now but if giving an honest assessment rather than coddling means losing someone, maybe that player or assistant coach is part of the problem.

“Part of my job is to try to find positives in the midst of getting beat like that,” coach Jim Mora said.

@SwingDog - I'm sure the public words and private/locker room words are much different.

 

[amishboy]

No way to sugarcoat a record of zero and 4.

If Mora is not up for the job the. UConn should pay belly up an pay the big bucks to get someone who can win.

Seriously? Who’d you have in mind? Maybe someone like Deon Sanders, who will first suggest to three-quarters of those currently on scholarship to consider the transfer portal, and then attract many of the 4-stars in the portal to come here?!

I’m not very optimistic that Mora can make this program competitive at the FBS level, but I have no illusion that there’s a better HC option.

 

[UCTitleTown]

I had to stop checking social media. The mocking from other college fanbases is more than I can take and I can't think of any counterpoints. It's one thing to not be good, but being mocked for being terrible is another thing.