Mora Speaks to Courant | Page 4 | The Boneyard
.-.

Mora Speaks to Courant

Bottom line the players bought in to a goal, we got 95% of the way there, then were abandoned in the middle of the night via a group chat.

I suspect most of them knew he was sniffing around, but you can skin a cat a million ways. He left the team and already started poaching UConn’s recruits and players. He should not be allowed back on campus.

Pick up your stuff at the gate or we’ll ship it to you. It’s a business and you walked out of the deal. Goodbye, don’t want you to come back and chit chat. Actions speak louder than words.
 
HuskiesFan1014 said:
And every Boneyarder talking about the next coach keeps bringing up "bringing players with him" ad nauseum. (His kid's a great quarterback who would travel with him...blah blah blah.) What makes that coach any better or worse than Mora? Hate the portal, hate coaches leaving, hate conference realignment...it's where college football is.
I was pissed Mora left, sure. But it is what it is. He could have given us goodbye kisses and tweeted some perfumey smoke up our butts, but he didn't. He wants to say goodbye to the guys...will he offer some a spot at CSU? Probably, but we will want our new coach to do the same.
In the end, the guy did a better job here than I expected, especially in a pretty short time frame. A couple years of going to the Rent expecting NOT to lose? Who would have thought.
I'm not sending him a Christmas card, but I'm not hurling EffYou's at the guy, either. He did his job.
NEXT!!!
Expand ...

We don't t have to help him do it.
 
.-.
Dove said:
Mora needs to be told he isn't welcome. He is poaching a QB recruit as I type.
Expand ...

What a difference a year can make! Just because what he's doing now is 'legal' doesn't make it right when he preaches taking the high ground.


moratamper.jpg
 
CTBasketball said:
then were abandoned in the middle of the night via a group chat.
Expand ...
TRULY middle of the night. Said he texted them "the moment the deal was done" but he seemed to get in touch with Thamel IMMEDIATELY, so they may have already been asleep if they keep strict sleep habits (which as athletes, wouldn't surprise me)
 
I suppose this is every players' wet dream. Miss a team meeting with zero consequences. Nothing forcing any of them, or any other coach to show up.

Go full Goodfellas and have Jim escorted in to an empty team meeting room. And then tell him he has 15 minutes to be off the campus.
 
Semantics... but tapering complaints he was making was regarding rostered athletes who are not officially registered in the portal, where direct communication is not allowed (and none of the folks who've posted are officially in the portal yet, as the portal window for them has not opened, under the new rules, the special window doesn't open for 5 days after the new coach is hired and lasts 15 days; it may overlap the normal window in this case for UConn).

Talking to recruits who've made a verbal commitment and trying to get them to flip, that's a practice as old as time for high school/JUCO recruits, but I'm sure that's the hair he (or any other coach) would split.
 
gwhuskyfan said:
Some interesting quotes...

“I am flying back across the country (Monday) to look these men in the eye and say thanks for the work they did and the things we accomplished together.”

“I sent a group message (to players) via ‘teamworks,’ the only way to communicate with them all when scattered across country, the moment the deal was done,” Mora said. “The AD at UConn was kept in the loop the entire time. … Frankly, I did it exactly the right way, all above board, with honesty and integrity and all with the interest of the UConn players in mind.”

“I left UConn better than I found it,” Mora said, “and I handled my departure the way a man with integrity does so. … I loved my time here, we embraced it.”

Expand ...
1) This is probably all true.
2) Not the best idea, in that case, to allow some intern from Fort Podunk CO to take your social accounts on day 1 and AI something up.

A poor decision, but not indicative of the coach.
 
.-.
FfldCntyFan said:
That's entirely up to the coach. I imagine we will allow them to play.
Expand ...
the coach..., the player, the players uncle bob, his agent, his next coach, and his nil sponsor
 
Chin Diesel said:
I suppose this is every players' wet dream. Miss a team meeting with zero consequences. Nothing forcing any of them, or any other coach to show up.

Go full Goodfellas and have Jim escorted in to an empty team meeting room. And then tell him he has 15 minutes to be off the campus.
Expand ...
Guarantee all the players and coaches come to the meeting. It is the smart thing to do. You keep your options open.
 
.-.
I would love for this meeting to be broadcast live on Channel 3, The MAX, Channel 30, Channel 8, & FOx 61 as breaking news. Would be highly entertaining, especially if AD Dave allowed the local scribes to have a shot of intense questioning of Mora.
 
coachcap said:
I would love for this meeting to be broadcast live on Channel 3, The MAX, Channel 30, Channel 8, & FOx 61 as breaking news. Would be highly entertaining, especially if AD Dave allowed the local scribes to have a shot of intense questioning of Mora.
Expand ...
What suddenly the local press asks probing questions? Only way they show up is if Hurley is having a press conference at the same time.
 
coachcap said:
I would love for this meeting to be broadcast live on Channel 3, The MAX, Channel 30, Channel 8, & FOx 61 as breaking news. Would be highly entertaining, especially if AD Dave allowed the local scribes to have a shot of intense questioning of Mora.
Expand ...
It would be great if the players pulled a UConn basketball crowd routine

1764607882051.png
 
FfldCntyFan said:
Things have always been a bit different (less polite) in football recruiting than basketball recruiting, the (recent) dual signing periods and portal have only made things worse for football.

Im the past, due mostly to the late (more than a month after the season ended) signing period and (I'm guessing) overall number of recruits, in football it was standard for schools to continue recruiting kids who verbally committed to another school (this was always viewed as underhanded in basketball).

I hope that DB (the only one who makes sense) has been contacting our verbal commits (at least those high on our list) to let them know it may be in their best interests to wait until we hire Mora's replacement. We can't have an assistant do this as there is no guarantee that he'll be with the program once all is said and done and the recruits will know this and view it as an insincere move on our part.
Expand ...
I just do not see it. Besides why should they believe him since the only person who matters is the new head coach,
 
.-.
ZooCougar said:
Mora wanted a new job. He was in such a hurry he skeedaddled without saying a goodbye. The timing is awkward. Well tough. The window is closed, he started offering our guys and now it's.

Go enjoy Fort Fun Jim. It's too late. They'll live without your heartfelt goodbye that should have already been done.
Expand ...
There is really nothing UConn could do. Ban him from college campus and he could just have invited the players to an offsite conference room. You cannot stop the players from attending. My guess most of the players are closer to Mora than to the school.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Online statistics

Members online
406
Guests online
5,249
Total visitors
5,655
Totals may include hidden visitors.

Forum statistics

Threads
166,097
Messages
4,466,766
Members
10,342
Latest member
Cecily


Top Bottom