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UConn football’s instant turnaround under Jim Mora: How did Huskies get to bowl (Chris Vannini@The Athletic)

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What's DiMauro's deal? Did he apply for a UConn job and get rejected? The guy spends too much of his time obsessing about UConn athletics just to get Uconn fans to react to him. I'm guessing its because of how pathetic BC sports have become but the guy acts like someone pissed in his cheerios.
 
Skiblets said:
Pretty simple actually. Pandemic. Faculty went to remote teaching. Coaches are part of that union. Edsall went virtual.
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As I think about this more, I think the explanation is that there were no formal football practices from mid March 2020 with maybe 2 weeks of practice in July/August 2020 until the season was cancelled. In the fall, kids at UConn could take classes either in person or virtually and live at home. If I remember correctly, UConn sports teams in the fall of 2020 were not allowed to practice together as teams, but they could work out in small groups which made up your close contacts. So, the team was basically adrift during what would have been the 2020 football season. And, a lot of football recruiting was done virtually with Zoom calls.
 
pepband99 said:
Not an apologista, but i think it would probably be instructive to figure out how much/if Edsall was being paid, during this downtime. If his pay went down, i wouldn't slight quite as much for packing up, but that timeframe seems wildly excessive, either way.
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He cancelled the season and continued to collect his full paycheck specifically because he knew it would be bad PR to fire him for cancelling the season over COVID and also because he knew they struggle to replace him the next season. Bought himself an extra two years of salary by doing it. The guy is scum. It wasn't so much that he wanted to destroy the program so much as he just didn't care at all what happened to it, and he wasn't going to put in an effort to improve it.
 
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Letsgohuskies11 said:
What's DiMauro's deal? Did he apply for a UConn job and get rejected? The guy spends too much of his time obsessing about UConn athletics just to get Uconn fans to react to him. I'm guessing its because of how pathetic BC sports have become but the guy acts like someone pissed in his cheerios.
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He's a no-talent hack who writes for a middling paper in a dying industry. He'll just do whatever it takes to get people to look at him.
 
Letsgohuskies11 said:
What's DiMauro's deal? Did he apply for a UConn job and get rejected? The guy spends too much of his time obsessing about UConn athletics just to get Uconn fans to react to him. I'm guessing its because of how pathetic BC sports have become but the guy acts like someone pissed in his cheerios.
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He’s a deeply pathetic husk of a man. If that’s his son in his Twitter pic, I feel bad that he’s growing up with Mike as a role model
 
UConnJim said:
As I think about this more, I think the explanation is that there were no formal football practices from mid March 2020 with maybe 2 weeks of practice in July/August 2020 until the season was cancelled. In the fall, kids at UConn could take classes either in person or virtually and live at home. If I remember correctly, UConn sports teams in the fall of 2020 were not allowed to practice together as teams, but they could work out in small groups which made up your close contacts. So, the team was basically adrift during what would have been the 2020 football season. And, a lot of football recruiting was done virtually with Zoom calls.
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I was lead to believe they were getting bigger stronger and faster to prepare to be a more mature and improved team in 2021. He was a coward for canceling the season.
 
GoSkies2019 said:
After reading this stuff about Edsall, it makes it incredibly hard to even appreciate what he did his first tenure here. This is pathetic.

We are so lucky to have Mora now.
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More evidence for the Mirror Universe Evil Doppelgänger of Randy Edsall theory continues to accrue.
 
HitDog said:
Seriously he is scum. I sent him an email asking if he's doing a column were he calls Mora a liar. He said he's investigating it.
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Maybe ask him if he’s writing a piece on the bang up job BC is doing across the athletic spectrum. Their entire sports program went AWOL a decade ago
 
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UConnJim said:
As I think about this more, I think the explanation is that there were no formal football practices from mid March 2020 with maybe 2 weeks of practice in July/August 2020 until the season was cancelled. In the fall, kids at UConn could take classes either in person or virtually and live at home. If I remember correctly, UConn sports teams in the fall of 2020 were not allowed to practice together as teams, but they could work out in small groups which made up your close contacts. So, the team was basically adrift during what would have been the 2020 football season. And, a lot of football recruiting was done virtually with Zoom calls.
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I do think some or all of that is accurate. The campus was effectively shut down for some of that time.

On canceling the 2020 season, that is a decision that is worse in hindsight than it was at the time. Remember, we were not in a conference. At the time the decision was made, several conferences had already cancelled their seasons, causing us to lose games, and several others had cancelled all non-conference games. Most FCS leagues had shut down too. The end result was we lost almost all of our schedule with very little hope of putting something together and we’re following the lead of the Big 10 and Pac12 and a couple of others. Plus it was our first Independent season, so putting together other Indy games was likely tougher. Now, what happened late in the season was leagues that had shut down decided the could safely play. But still limited games to intra-league. So everyone had a readymade schedule. We did not. And I think it is still a questionable call to have done what UMass did and play 3 games all on the road and for all intents and purposes made up on the fly. I suppose they did beat us the next year, but we were without some key players and our head coach due to Covid. Not sure it proves anything. Finally, although Edsall was the face of the decision, I don’t for a minute think it was made by Edsall. That was likely made at the University administration level as it was at the Big and PAC.
 
CallMeBruce said:
He cancelled the season and continued to collect his full paycheck specifically because he knew it would be bad PR to fire him for cancelling the season over COVID and also because he knew they struggle to replace him the next season. Bought himself an extra two years of salary by doing it. The guy is scum. It wasn't so much that he wanted to destroy the program so much as he just didn't care at all what happened to it, and he wasn't going to put in an effort to improve it.
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8 months in Florida? He is a narcissist.
 
Stinger92860 said:
Dimauro is an A Z Z. What a jealous m f e r .

He is calling Mora a liar. He is calling the players liars. Watch this escalate.
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He's an actual POS. I'm sure he got bullied a lot and he probably deserved it
 
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History Geek said:
This might get interesting.
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The question is why would Mora lie about what he heard from players in an interview that comes out right before a bowl game? If he is lying he stand to possibly lose the players as he would have been putting words in their mouths and it would not be a good look to the athletic department either.
 
Alum1620 said:
The question is why would Mora lie about what he heard from players in an interview that comes out right before a bowl game? If he is lying he stand to possibly lose the players as he would have been putting words in their mouths and it would not be a good look to the athletic department either.
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Agreed, it doesn't make sense. DiMauro is publicly doubling down though. I'm not liking this vibe.
 
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As in most things.....the truth is somewhere is in the middle. I am sure some players felt RE abandoned them for 8 months. In truth...he was probably back and forth to Connecticut during that period...but he may not have seen the players.

The sentiment is accurate....and Dimauro playing semantics is a reflection on his insecurities...and his dislike of UConn by looking for "gotchas" that are insignificant.

I am just glad we have a coach that is aligned with the AD and cares about the bigger picture rather than his own ego.
 
This is so true. Regardless of where he was physically located the players felt abandoned. No doubt they have performed better under better leadership. So who cares if an idiot writer wants to make a stupid point.
 
Coach Mora has heard a lot of stuff, surely. much more than this. And I have been very impressed by his ability to not talk about headline-making gossip, especially things that entail the reputation of another person who is not given a microphone to fairly respond (regardless of what we feel about them, which is 100000000% irrelevant). You were not there, I was not there, and neither was the reporter looking to sensationalize an ill-rationalized moment by JM at the microphone (IMO JM messed up a little bit by opening up the opportunity to start gossip). He (JM) is not perfect though, and I trust enough to believe that his intent has never been to further trash the name of his predecessor. Even if these things are true, they. don't. matter. moving. forward. Like not even a little bit. We are where we are, and it is what it is. onward.
 
GoSkies2019 said:
After reading this stuff about Edsall, it makes it incredibly hard to even appreciate what he did his first tenure here. This is pathetic.

We are so lucky to have Mora now.
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Not for me. The way he left after Fiesta Bowl was chickenpoop, and RE2.0 was straight garbage. But I'll always appreciate what RE1.0 did for UConn's football program.

And yes, extremely grateful Mora took on this challenge.
 
freescooter said:
I do think some or all of that is accurate. The campus was effectively shut down for some of that time.

On canceling the 2020 season, that is a decision that is worse in hindsight than it was at the time. Remember, we were not in a conference. At the time the decision was made, several conferences had already cancelled their seasons, causing us to lose games, and several others had cancelled all non-conference games. Most FCS leagues had shut down too. The end result was we lost almost all of our schedule with very little hope of putting something together and we’re following the lead of the Big 10 and Pac12 and a couple of others. Plus it was our first Independent season, so putting together other Indy games was likely tougher. Now, what happened late in the season was leagues that had shut down decided the could safely play. But still limited games to intra-league. So everyone had a readymade schedule. We did not. And I think it is still a questionable call to have done what UMass did and play 3 games all on the road and for all intents and purposes made up on the fly. I suppose they did beat us the next year, but we were without some key players and our head coach due to Covid. Not sure it proves anything. Finally, although Edsall was the face of the decision, I don’t for a minute think it was made by Edsall. That was likely made at the University administration level as it was at the Big and PAC.
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I respect RE for developing UConn into a FBS football team. Another coach would have played some games. UMass did with far greater restrictions. I agree it wouldn’t mean much but the players would have gained experience. I believe he knew the team wasn’t good and he wasn’t willing to fight for them.
 
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