-> “I think this team’s becoming a fun football team to watch. I don’t need it that close, necessarily, but character wins, they’re more important to me than blowouts,” Mora said. “That’s where you grow, that’s where you learn, that’s where you really start to define yourself as a team and as players on a team.” <-
->“This week, thankfully, we have the bye and we’re gonna look at everything that we’re doing,” Mora said. “Are we putting our players in a position where they can have success? Are we scheming them up? Are we calling the right plays at the right time? Do we have the right players on the field for the plays that we’re calling? Are we doing a good enough job of analyzing what teams are playing against us and predicting what we’re gonna see?
“We thought we were gonna see a lot of two-deep (two safeties lined up deep, dividing the field in half) in the red zone against these guys this week and we didn’t. And when you don’t, then you have to be able to adjust very quickly. It’s too late if you wait until after a game to adjust, right? So good coaches learn to do that and we’ve got good coaches and we’re gonna get that handled. But it can’t continue that way. You can’t live off field goals.” <-
-> During the bye week, UConn will practice Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and lift on Thursday morning. The team won’t have “football activities” Thursday and Friday and has Saturday off before coming in Sunday night to begin an extra day of preparation for Wake Forest. <-
