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Message: [QUOTE="kibblesnbits, post: 4139250, member: 97"] I agree with this. He obviously had people he targeted and, for whatever reason, couldn't close the deal. However, I'm actually fairly positive on the hire. Mora could have hired someone. I'm sure he received plenty of contacts from coaches and their agents. However, rather than just taking someone he wasn't confident in, he decided Spanos was the best available option. He's not stupid - he undoubtedly knew his own words, "Members of the 2021 staff will not be retained" (and ideally that probably would have been the case), would be used against him. But he felt confident enough that Spanos was the best option that he went ahead anyway. As for the famous comment that UConn played the most transparent defense (seemingly in keeping with our relatively transparent offense), I'm sure Spanos has heard it and so has Mora. They know improvement is required. I wouldn't expect Belichickian disguises and schemes, but I expect more as our talent, experience and confidence level (on field and in coaches box) improve. Mora and Spanos have been in charge of or part of top college and professional defenses so it's not as if they don't understand and haven't executed the concepts. As hard as it is to believe, I think FHCRE actually became more vanilla as time went on (and he was hardly Rocky Road when he started). As he seemingly lost confidence in what the players could do he adopted the "well let's just do a few things well" philosphy and spurned any complexity that he didn't think they could handle. The problem is that the other team quickly learns the few things so they are bound to fail - making the problem worse. That's why he had to go. [/QUOTE]

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