If you have any inside information and would like to share it, I’m all ears and ready to have my beliefs changed. Otherwise, the speculation is absurd unless you think DB is an idiot, which I certainly do not. Mora took over a program that had become as pitiful as UMass over 11 seasons under 3 different coaches. Without a competent QB on the roster (with the possible exception of one and one half series over the course of a season) he managed to turn the program around into 6-6 with a schedule that required wins against a P-4 team for the first time in a decade, a Fresno State team that won the MWC and beat a P-4 team in its bowl game and a ranked Liberty squad coming off a win at an SEC school. After a bad year (still a good year by recent UConn standards) in which we lost our QB in game 2, he then put together 8-4 and 9-3 regular seasons, going 12-1 at home during that span, and won 3 of our last 4 against ACC opponents (1 on the road and 1 at a neutral site). All this while attendance was showing substantial rebounding.
The only thing DB would have been asking himself is how long can I keep Mora before retirement or he leaves. Do I think he’s such a great game coach that he was going to take this program to a ranked level? Absolutely not. Am I saying he was the right guys for Oregon or UW? No, I didn’t say that. But he was succeeding on a high level that no one would have thought possible the day he came here and still hadn’t had a chance to play guys he recruited out of high school for their redshirt senior seasons.
