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Jim Mora Expected to be Named HC

BigFanCT said:
I can't believe people are thinking this is a bad hire. Are you aware of what this program has become? :rolleyes:. The guy won at a major football school in a major conference. Give me a break.
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He’s also won at the highest level of football, the NFL
 
huskymedic said:
-> “High school coaches in the state of Connecticut are so important to our success,” Mora said. “That can’t be ignored. It’s going to be really important to me to really start to develop those relationships in a sincere way. Any high school player in the state of Connecticut that is good enough to play at the University of Connecticut should be playing at the University of Connecticut. They should not be leaving the state to go play elsewhere. We need to dominate the state of Connecticut and attack that region, the Northeast.”

Mora also plans to make use of the transfer portal. “It’s changed the landscape of college football and it has allowed teams to get better quickly,” he said. “You can have great recruiting classes but they’re still young players. I think the portal gives you a chance to get some players that have some experience, obviously are a little bit more mature. … I just think you have to make sure that you attack it with a real strategy and you don’t become a team of mercenaries, that you use it to your advantage where you can.” <-
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Music to my ears
 
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The guy will be 65 when his contract ends. Uggh. Can we stop with the 60 year old + coaches? I want someone no older than 50 to actually be invested in rebuilding the program. Maybe he'll hire Pasqualoni as his Defensive Coordinator....
 
blue93 said:
Mentions of the transfer portal by Mora and Benedict. This has to be a critical piece of a turnaround.

We can’t continue to expect freshmen and sophomores to not play like freshmen and sophomores.
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He wants CT kids playing for UConn which is another critical piece. We have so many three and four star recruits that take off and laugh at UConn. Hopefully Mora can change that perception in these kids.
 
RSTuthill said:
Meh. Whiff of a retread out of CFB for a very long time. Has the advantage of potentially retaining Spanos. DB apparently valued continuity very highly. A very valid concern and we will have to trust DB on this one. Fix it but don't change it sort of mindset. Will keep an open mind. Not wildly enthused at this point but we will wait to see who is on the staff.

But I do hope that he is on the sideline against Clemson.
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I share your initial reaction. Very surprised, both by him specifically but even the resume more generally — older, out of the game for a few years, no east coast coaching. But that doesn’t make it a bad hire either. I need to let it sink in and give it thought.

But DB’s career is resting on this decision, so whether it works out or not I assume he made the choice very deliberately and purposefully.
 
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Yup! said:
He wants CT kids playing for UConn which is another critical piece. We have so many three and four star recruits that take off and laugh at UConn. Hopefully Mora can change that perception in these kids.
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No. You don’t. You don’t have “so many” three and four star recruits laughing at us because CT doesn’t have that many three and four star recruits to begin with. Plus, why shouldn’t they laugh at us. Most of the few thousand of us left to go to games can only laugh at us.

But other than that really good take.
 
businesslawyer said:
I share your initial reaction. Very surprised, both by him specifically but even the resume more generally — older, out of the game for a few years, no east coast coaching. But that doesn’t make it a bad hire either. I need to let it sink in and give it thought.

But DB’s career is resting on this decision, so whether it works out or not I assume he made the choice very deliberately and purposefully.
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Isn’t Atlanta considered South East? He coached for the Atlanta Falcons where he won coach of the year. Maybe you’re talking college?
 
UCTitleTown said:
The guy will be 65 when his contract ends. Uggh. Can we stop with the 60 year old + coaches? I want someone no older than 50 to actually be invested in rebuilding the program. Maybe he'll hire Pasqualoni as his Defensive Coordinator....
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I want a proven head coach/CEO that prospective players, incumbent players, and coaches respect, listen to, and will go through walls for on Saturdays. The assistant coaches are the ones that recruit at the high schools and then into the living rooms and are the players' focal point at practice during the week from a positional teaching standpoint. The assistants are SOOOO key to the program.

I'm not worried about HC age as much as ability to organize and execute.
 
HuskyHawk said:
This exceeded my expectations. A former UCLA and NFL head coach, who was decent at both stops, if not great. That's as big a name as we could get, somebody who clearly signals that UConn takes football seriously.
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This. This is a power move by Benedict that, in one swift stroke has put to bed the rumors that the University of Connecticut is winding down it’s football program, and signaled to current players and future recruits that we are serious about football.

(@ZooCougar are you pleasantly surprised?)
 
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bulletpoints & vignettes


1. Give Mrs Spanos a lot of credit, she obviously loves life in Connecticut. There is no doubt that Lou is involved in this. No or few other coaches would allow a Jim Mora to hang around as an assistant with our players late in a season.
2. Mora is a big name. I loved his Dad. I loved Jim Mora as a UCLA coach where he took over from our legacy QB Rick Neuheisel who was failing badly. (cough cough Karl Dorrell) Mora is a consummate professional. Almost 50% as an NFL HC - IMHO - is a solid job. That all has to do with draft, luck, injuries, management far beyond a CFB structure.
3. You get Spanos and probably Mazzone. You have to think this is the path that led Benedict to this hire. My think is we significantly raised our sights on hires for the Staffing. UCLA got the best. Edsall has a armful of younger guys that he pulled along that would not be at P5 programs - to be honest. Duffin-Carter proved himself. We upgrade. This is a very important feature; and certainly MORA knows about recruiting ... and MORA/Mazzone/Spanos et al would know about this Transfer portal world and how to raise our talent > HCRE.
4. The $2m. That is why we are a different Independent. And far beyond UMass. And I don't think Army or others quite have the arc WE could have.
5. Charisma? Both Jim Sr. & Jim Jr. are as good with the stump speech as can be. Yes, I have seen both in mixed alumni audiences and they can dish. Edsall is an acquired taste - to put it mildly.
6. Who says 59 is too old? (I was born in the 1950s)
7. Dan Orlovsky Jr. has/had a very interesting relationship with Dan Orlovsky Sr. Let's keep Danny happy - is my motto. But, we do not need to consult our most prestigious football alums when Benedict needs input every time. I am sure they talked. And ... we hired a top consulting firm = Parker. What is my first thought about Benedict in this: He had a national network and he clearly is tied in. He trusted some relationships down the hall heavily.
8. In the press release: Dr. Andrew Agwunobi is referred to as the UCLA interim president at CBS Sportsline. He is the UCONN interim president.


I do see similarities in the UCLA fan base and UCONN. I would rather be in the Rose Bowl in late November - after Turkey - in 90 degree weather having Santa Ana winds blow over the San Gabriels than Rent. I would rather have a snow blizzard XMAS week.
 
Yup! said:
Isn’t Atlanta considered South East? He coached for the Atlanta Falcons where he won coach of the year. Maybe you’re talking college?
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In the NFL the geography of your team is irrelevant. In college football, it’s highly relevant. And Atlanta is not in our region of the country anyway, whether by geography or culture.
 
Justin M said:
why does it matter that he’s 59 when any coach is going to leave this job as soon as they have any success regardless
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These Old guys, P, Edsall, are mainly collecting one final round of paychecks before they ride off into the sunset permanently.
 
businesslawyer said:
No. You don’t. You don’t have “so many” three and four star recruits laughing at us because CT doesn’t have that many three and four star recruits to begin with. Plus, why shouldn’t they laugh at us. Most of the few thousand of us left to go to games can only laugh at us.

But other than that really good take.
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This is what makes me nervous - one of the things that is absolutely vital in getting this program on track is to recognize relatively nearby recruiting hotbeds. CT should not be primary focus - Florida, Penn, Ohio and Virginia should be.
 
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businesslawyer said:
No. You don’t. You don’t have “so many” three and four star recruits laughing at us because CT doesn’t have that many three and four star recruits to begin with. Plus, why shouldn’t they laugh at us. Most of the few thousand of us left to go to games can only laugh at us.

But other than that really good take.
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We have ten 3 stars in CT alone this year, two 4 stars and thirteen 3 stars last year in CT alone. We are a tiny state.

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Yup! said:
He wants CT kids playing for UConn which is another critical piece. We have so many three and four star recruits that take off and laugh at UConn. Hopefully Mora can change that perception in these kids.
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I couldn’t care any less where kids come from at this point. I want good football players. If they happen to come from CT, great.
 
Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
We don’t need him for more than a handful of years to stabilize and then be able to attract the next hot 40 yr old coaching savant.
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I bet I can find similar comments on this board after Pasqualoni and after Randy 2.0. How'd those hires work out?
 
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