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Jim Mora Expected to be Named HC

noeynox said:
These Old guys, P, Edsall, are mainly collecting one final round of paychecks before they ride off into the sunset permanently.
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#MeToo

and in my industry ... I really can spot young talent and can delegate. That is an acquired skillset. HCRE brought his entourage. I will bet we see a whole upgrade in that respect now.
 
businesslawyer said:
We're a tiny state. We couldn’t rely primarily on CT recruits.
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You can't be serious to think that his appropriate (and mandatory) reference to how important it is to be on board with CT HS coaches and retaining our in-state talent, somehow means that Mora thinks it's more important to recruit CT than recruiting in the areas where talent is abundant. He's not that stupid and neither are you.
 
Hey Adrien! said:
The opinion of a casual fan: pleasantly surprised we hired a guy with his credentials. Lou Spanos is a nice guy, but I do not any retention of our current staff. We need to clean house.
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If it was me? The entire staff should be let go for a nice fresh start. But I also believe incoming HC should be able to assemble staff as he sees fit. If he feels comfortable with Spanos (and they had some successful seasons together at UCLA) then he should keep him.
 
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RSTuthill said:
Why? Because I have an opinion and don't go weak in the knees when someone off the radar is hired? Think critically my friend. Don't just shout goodie.
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yeah but ... you are the same Tuthill that opined we ought to drop to FCS and I - vociferously state that nobody would do that after a $300m Investment. So I do watch your posts closely
 
CTMike said:
At this point, it’s fine. He’s fine. Not excited, not mad.

Just once though. Once… it would be nice if the reaction was “boy, UConn stole that guy.”
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He’s well qualified. And nobody else wanted him. If someone else did the chances were good that we wouldn’t get him.
 
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ZooCougar said:
No. He’s and out of work HC. And we got him for a steal. Nobody else wanted him.

Doesn’t mean he can’t be good but we did not punch above our weight class here.
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He’s a very solid hire by any reasonable standard, checking pretty much every box. I agree with you, though, that we “didn’t punch above our weight class.” This is exactly the kind of quality hire that we should reasonably expect for our university and is dramatically better than many of the names that were floated on the board.
 
huskysupporter said:
That was my point - of course Dan shouldn’t have a significant say, but Dave B. should have called.

Actually little surprised at the vitriol directed at Dan here. If there was a Mount Rushmore of UCONN football he would be the first face carved on the stone.
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And if there were a basketball one Ray would likely be first one carved. He spoke up for Ollie, Benedict did what was best for the program. Just bc they’re a face doesn’t mean they know what’s best.
 
Nostical said:
You can't be serious to think that his appropriate (and mandatory) reference to how important it is to be on board with CT HS coaches and retaining our in-state talent, somehow means that Mora thinks it's more important to recruit CT than recruiting in the areas where talent is abundant. He's not that stupid and neither are you.
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Didn’t say a word about Mora. WAs only responding to the post
 
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CL82 said:
He’s a very solid hire by any reasonable standard, checking pretty much every box. I agree with you, though, that we “didn’t punch above our weight class.” This is exactly the kind of quality hire that we should reasonably expect for our university and is dramatically better than many of the names that were floated on the board.
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That’s what I was saying before. This wasn’t a reach. It’s not bad at all but it’s not a knock your socks off deal.

It’s more like: “wow I forgot he was even available”.
 
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Hey Adrien! said:
The opinion of a casual fan: pleasantly surprised we hired a guy with his credentials. Lou Spanos is a nice guy, but I do not any retention of our current staff. We need to clean house.
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actually ... I am pretty confident that ain't happening

There are some core staff members - and Spanos certainly knows - that will be slated to stay. And I am thinking of the holder of the data files & relationships in recruiting. There was a upgrade from HCRE 1.0 to 2.0. And it ain't specifically in the 9 assistants.
 
KSC94 said:
Joining the staff as an assistant coach until the end of the year is the single strangest part of this whole thing. What a joke
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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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There is only one thing important here for any coach we hired. We have to be able to bring in players from the transfer portal and Judo players in large numbers. If we can do that the new coach can be successful . If we can not bring in Transfer portal players we will continue to lose no matter if Nick Saban is our coach.
 
Slick said:
There is only one thing important here for any coach we hired. We have to be able to bring in players from the transfer portal and Judo players in large numbers. If we can do that the new coach can be successful . If we can not bring in Transfer portal players we will continue to lose no matter if Nick Saban is our coach.
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I don’t think he can legally be the HC because UCLA is still paying him.
 
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