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Jim Mora Expected to be Named HC

Pudge said:
Look ... it is incredibly easy to recruit for the UCLA Bruins in Westwood. It is the #1 Public University in America & Westwood is charming with 1000s of sorority girls and lots of flavor. Ask Troy Aikman who I used to laugh at when he first arrived in the few bars in the downtown mixed use corridor.

You say they compete with USC; but the reality is the place (greater LA/Southern Cal) is so big that UCLA naturally gets a very high grade recruit just by being who they are; and distinctly different in many ways than SC. So being a good talent evaluator and picking right.

YES. You have to know JuCo. Yes you have to know Polynesian. But getting a top 15 QB every single year is a given. My primary interest - if you are watching college football in the last 5 years - is how he deals with the natural progression into a very transactional nature of the Sport. Transfer Portal. We still will be a development program - look at the roster we have today. But the MOST IMPORTANT skillset and tool has got to be solid video grabbing of talent from all over - to our great University.
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Aikman went to OU as a recruit. He transferred later. If it was that ez, they’d be best program in country ; they’re not best team in city.
 
JMick said:
At the end of the day it's a big part of Daves legacy. The fact that he spent 50 hours with the guy, at his house, speaks to how important this was. I just hope we did not get hoodwinked by some hospitality. I like the hire and I get why it was made so I can't fault him, but we have been burned so many times...
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I just had a bad flashback to DB giving Diaco an extension because of a fear of him leaving. FOMO is powerful...let's hope it doesn't bite us in the butt on this one.

I don't think it will..but there is no way to be sure.
 
ShakyTheMohel said:
DB's Choice.

What a tough decision. I agree with what he did. You can't blame Moorhead for waiting to see if there is a better offer...but you have to sign the guy who is willing to commit now. There is some value in signing a guy who says "I don't need to wait for the season to end..I want this job".

Could have worked out with either coach... but you couldn't risk losing both.

I wonder if Herman was ever in the mix?

Anyway....That's why DB gets the big money!
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Morehead is busy preparing the Ducks for hopefully playoffs. Can’t commit until end of season. My first choice if he was even interested? Herman? Whatever
 
ShakyTheMohel said:
I just had a bad flashback to DB giving Diaco an extension because of a fear of him leaving. FOMO is powerful...let's hope it doesn't bite us in the butt on this one.

I don't think it will..but there is no way to be sure.
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part of me thinks we tried to do the extension to get paid when Diaco got taken. It's what a lot of successful G5 programs do and I think we might have thought "oh this is easy, he gets signed away next year and some big school pays us a lot of money"
 
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Pudge said:
You know ... this just isn't that hard. There is a former University of Washington QB named Hugh Millen who has a few week old campaign to get Jim Mora hired at UW to replace Jimmy Lake. You are acting like he is grandpa out to pasture. Ain't close to his market value for jobs. In the MW or Pac 12, he has value as a HC. If you possibly could be the Huskies coach in Seattle ... why would you become the Huskies coach in East Hartford. Two thoughts: Some guys love rehab jobs (and following Lake in that environment won't be fun) AND Mora has anchors in friends Spanos and Mazzone to report back.

Plus. I see this as two West Coast guys - Benedict and Mora - who culturally mesh. Maybe that is hard to explain here on the The Boneyard; but this world often comes to that. Benedict probably wouldn't connect with some NE types ... think Pasqualoni. Maybe Chesney (haha)
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Like Hurley?
 
Regarding pulling the trigger on Mora versus waiting on Morehead: it is what happens in recruiting all the time. You offer a few players at a position and once they commit, you are done recruiting that slot. You move onto the next slot, etc. Very normal.
 
Mora needs to stress to recruits not so much that UConn will be a power, but that if you come you have a chance at the NFL. For a team who has been as bad as UConn has been, they have an impressive number of players on NFL rosters. And seriously, why can't UConn be as competitive as, say, Temple. The program declined with the very bad head coach, Pasqualoni and the second Edsall tenure in particular, choices.
 
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Ajs120102 said:
Mora said he can’t contact recruits until tomorrow. Has to past a test.
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gioff2323 said:
Aikman went to OU as a recruit. He transferred later. If it was that ez, they’d be best program in country ; they’re not best team in city.
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pfft

What do you know. When Terry Donahue was the UCLA HC and Larry Smith was the USC HC ... UCLA was the far better team. In fact, there was a long period basically from OJ/John Robinson to Pete Carroll that SC sucked eggs.

Troy Aikman was a wonderful college QB at UCLA for 2 years; and his time at Oklahoma he showed promise ... but was injured. And also OK was just past the wishbone days and didn't really play a good passing attack.
 
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amishboy said:
Fine, we’re not tiny, we’re just below average, AND overall we don’t produce many FBS-level recruits.
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Now, we might not produce quality football players, however our biggest high schools are smaller than the high schools in Hillsborough County. Hillsborough County (Tampa) has some middle schools bigger than some of Connecticut's high schools. Also, until about 2005, some schools (East Granby, RHAM) didn't have football. I think Connecticut's High School football is like hockey or lacrosse in Florida (unknown, but some stats are playing). A neighbor's sons are playing for one of the best high school hockey team in the state. (Coached by an ex Lightning player).

With Mora, I think Connecticut high school football might grow, and maybe even Mass and Rhode Island, too.

I love the hire...
 
businesslawyer said:
He averaged 7-4 at UCLA. I am fairly certain that is better than his predecessor or anyone who followed him. College football is not a video game. Spouting a coach’s record is fairly meaningless without knowing what school he was at and whether the program has been better or worse, and how much with other coaches.
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If we can average 7-4 with Mora, I'd take it...

Especially if we beat tOSU...;)
 
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Dean Wormer said:
Well, folks are talking about UConn football, and not in a totally negative way either. That kickoff TD at Clemson had the whole house cheering! Cue the meme about hope being a good thing.
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The only thing that would have made the hire better is if Coach Mora pronounced the situation "doable".
 
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