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ktuck911 said:
That would be amazing... i bet we'd get legit recruits with him...my only concern is can he be that type of leader who's presence can move the needle on a conference affiliation bid? We need a guy like that I think with this new hire.
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We need to go to 3-5 mill a year and up the assistant coach salary pool too. If we want a big name coach UConn has to open the check book
 
metsfan2323 said:
With an NFL prospect at QB and one of the top WR's in the country, Mora lost to Rice, Delaware, got very lucky against FAU, and beat Lembo's Buffalo team by 3, so I guess Mora is incompetent too.

Lembo is highly regarded because he has produced winning records at 4 different stops as head coach, has a 126 - 76 career record and is known to be a special teams Guru.

I get it, we are very much a what have you done lately crowd and Lembo had a losing record this year. If Mora left last year Lembo would be a highly regarded candidate for us because he had a 9 win season in year one at Buffalo. You know who also had a losing record his second year? Jim Mora.

So fickle.
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I like Lembo too. He has won at places where winning is very tough. And in the MAC you usually y play 3 payday games and 1 home and home so a perfect season is 9-3.

He was the winningest coach in Lehigh history when he left. At Elon he had up to that point the school’s only conference winning records ever. Went to Ball State and had the first winning season in 15 years. Had 3 straight winning years and went to back to back bowl games. They had been to 1 in 90 years. Now at Buffalo where he went 9-4 last year. 5-7 this year.

He has been a very good coach for some time and knows how to put together good teams In tough places.
 
Rich said:
Saban left MSU for two reasons:

1) He had taken the program as far as he could go given the available resources and competitive landscape;
2) LSU offered him the chance to become Head Coach.

UNC is delusional if they believe BB or any other HC can produce a perennial playoff contender at that program. I see the Heels as a 8-9 win outfit in good years with an ACC championship maybe once or twice a decade. But that's the absolute ceiling. No one is coaching there thinking 'Natty or Bust'.
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The reason they think UNC can take off is because of the huge amount of football talent in the Carolinas and Virginia.

But the school and the state are always going to take a chunk of the football budget and pour it into basketball. It's just the way it is.

Still, even if they poured everything they had into football, it takes a year at least to turn things around.
 
JVN said:
It would be interesting to know who was on AD David Benedict's radar in 2021 before Mora reached out to him.
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Sounded like Al Golden but that could have been Golden’s agent trying to get him more money at a different job.
 
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JwittersPAC said:
What you’re telling me it is easy to play national championship caliber defense when you have the best athletes/players in college football. lol
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I don't know what the hell you're trying to say here. What i am saying he sucked ass as a head coach. As a coordinator he won in the NFL with Brady and at Ohio State where they have premier athletes. But you probably think he's better than Mora.
 
So the portal open December 3rd and ends Dec 5th. We're in a tough spot. Penn State has had 6 weeks to hire a couch and hasn't found one yet. We got a week before the portal signing period.
 
Rich said:
Saban left MSU for two reasons:

1) He had taken the program as far as he could go given the available resources and competitive landscape;
2) LSU offered him the chance to become Head Coach.

UNC is delusional if they believe BB or any other HC can produce a perennial playoff contender at that program. I see the Heels as a 8-9 win outfit in good years with an ACC championship maybe once or twice a decade. But that's the absolute ceiling. No one is coaching there thinking 'Natty or Bust'.
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UNC has not won the ACC since Lawrence Taylor was there. It is the most underachieving football program in all of FBS.
 
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Rich said:
Nobody knows (yet) how the Kiffin deal is going to play out; whether he takes his staff with him to LSU or chooses to stay at Ole Miss I can think of a lot worse things that giving Charlie Weiss Jr. a long look. Weiss has spent the far majority of his coaching career south of the Mason/Dixon; but, he has NFL experience as a QB coach and has recruiting ties in places where let's face it the best talent tends to germinate. Big green light in my book. Throw Shannon Dawson's (UM OC) name in the mix as well. Maybe Kane Wommack from Alabama. He reigned from South Alabama to take the Alabama DC job under DeBoer.

I've seen a lot of discussion around here about the notion of bringing in a coach that 'knows' the northeast/mid-atlantic region. Frankly, that's not important to me at all because that's not where you find the most competitive teams in college football, FBS or otherwise. We want the best candidate not the guy who appreciates the difference between NJ, NY and CT pizza for god's sake.

And let's be honest, the talent around these parts mostly stinks anyway; the kids that DO get FBS offers ususally never even sniff around UCONN and that's never going to change unless we change our perspective. If we truly want to compete for Big Prizes we are going to have to get more blue chip recruits in the door, through both the portal and HS/JUCO recruiting. More money in the banana stand would also help.

It bears mentioning that Brian Kelly's 'fit' issues at LSU would not at all apply to the reverse situation, where say we brought in a guy like Kane Wommack (Alabama's DC). We're just not that insular and frankly don't have the street cred or history to impose our New Englaned cultural pecularities on what we're looking for in a new head coach.
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That's all well and good, but if UConn wants to look to the South for its next HC, it might be more important to vet the coach's wife than the coach himself (see Lashlee, Rhett).
 
storrsroars said:
That's all well and good, but if UConn wants to look to the South for its next HC, it might be more important to vet the coach's wife than the coach himself (see Lashlee, Rhett).
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One could say Mrs Mira had some influence in this decision as well.
 
Candle is a Nov 12th guy like myself so he's my guy for the HC gig.
 
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noeynox said:
I don't know what the hell you're trying to say here. What i am saying he sucked ass as a head coach. As a coordinator he won in the NFL with Brady and at Ohio State where they have premier athletes. But you probably think he's better than Mora.
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I was stating that it is easy to be a defensive coordinator with the players Ohio State gets. I guess you do not know what sarcasm is. Also please stop with Mora being a success as a NFL coach. He was not. Mora was a good but not great college coach.
 
noeynox said:
Every program is the right hire away from great things. Indiana was the losingest program in FBS history prior to Cignetti.
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You also have to be willing and able to provide the resources.
 
DJHurlhoun said:
Tom Herman. Has coached at the highest level at Texas and was very successful at Houston. He even praised UConn’s entire athletic department after a loss while coaching at FAU. He deserves a call.
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I remember speaking to @Nostical the game after we beat FAU last year, saying it sounded like Herman was lobbying for consideration to get on thr list of potential replacements once Mora left.

There's quite a bit to like about hom as a candidate. The one potential red flag is the way he departed FAU. The explanation behind that would be critical as to whether he should or should not be in consideration.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
I remember speaking to @Nostical the game after we beat FAU last year, saying it sounded like Herman was lobbying for consideration to get on thr list of potential replacements once Mora left.

There's quite a bit to like about hom as a candidate. The one potential red flag is the way he departed FAU. The explanation behind that would be critical as to whether he should or should not be in consideration.
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Has he called DB yet? The one positive is he would probably accept the job since he is unemployed.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
I remember speaking to @Nostical the game after we beat FAU last year, saying it sounded like Herman was lobbying for consideration to get on thr list of potential replacements once Mora left.

There's quite a bit to like about hom as a candidate. The one potential red flag is the way he departed FAU. The explanation behind that would be critical as to whether he should or should not be in consideration.
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I think the explanation will be that he had no money to throw around. I’m pretty sure it was a public complaint. It may have been Herman that said they needed to look at what we were doing and copy it. I’m still concerned he was winless and 0-6 when he got fired at FAU. Great coaches win a few games with or without talent.
 
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Hoophound said:
I think the explanation will be that he had no money to throw around. I’m pretty sure it was a public complaint. It may have been Herman that said they needed to look at what we were doing and copy it. I’m still concerned he was winless and 0-6 when he got fired at FAU. Great coaches win a few games with or without talent.
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As an Oklahoma fan I've watched him coach against us and have read a lot about him over the years back when he was at Houston and Texas. I want no part of him at UConn and will be very disappointed if he's the choice. Google what Texas fans think of him. It's not good. His tenure was called "the regime" and his nickname was Mensa (not used as a compliment but rather how he saw himself vs. players and fans).
 
Hoophound said:
I think the explanation will be that he had no money to throw around. I’m pretty sure it was a public complaint. It may have been Herman that said they needed to look at what we were doing and copy it. I’m still concerned he was winless and 0-6 when he got fired at FAU. Great coaches win a few games with or without talent.
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I just looked at FAU’s historical record and they are typically under 500. Lane Kiffin had two 11-3 seasons, but he also went 5-7 in between. Taggart also had 3 consecutive losing seasons. Not sure what the issue is there. Did Herman and Taggart stop working hard or were there other reasons. Sounds like investment may have been an issue under Herman. All I know is we have to get this hire right.
 
JwittersPAC said:
I was stating that it is easy to be a defensive coordinator with the players Ohio State gets. I guess you do not know what sarcasm is. Also please stop with Mora being a success as a NFL coach. He was not. Mora was a good but not great college coach.
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Moras only year in Seattle is what made him leave the NFL with a sub .500 record. He's not the disaster you make him out to be by any stretch.
 
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