Maybe he's removing all that focus on him and putting it on the team by doing that... Seems like it's a "circle the wagon" "us against the world" approach he's taking with the team... I think he's taking a page out of the MBB book... Using whatever he can ( like Hurley does ) to build momentum...
I wonder if he realized he isn't being compensated for puffing up the rest of the university. Having to make do with a smaller coaching budget than Hurley's salary has to be annoying.
Jo I appreciate Mora with his national profile agreeing to come here and try reversing the fortunes of the program. And I also recognized the need to get people talking about the program when he first got here. He has been a dynamic presence here. I guess I'm getting tired of getting any semblance of a semi when new coaches come in and talk their coachspeak that includes things like winning a national championship here, how great and innovative their subordinate coaching hires are or telling recruits his goal is getting into a P4 conference in a couple of years.... I have no problem him being less active on social media because I believe he is in the middle of rebooting the program and there is a lot of work to do from spring to opening day of 2024 and results need to be shown quickly.. I want to see a trend of competitive football still knowing it has become a tough place to do so. It appears I'm in the same era of others like Palantine, Freescooter, and Waquoit plus others. Can't speak for them but indifference is creeping in and starting to considerer giving more too my community instead..
I disagree with many of your points. I do agree that not being in a conference is a negative, but that shouldn't be holding UConn back when it comes to winning 6 to 8 games per year. There is going to be a P4 for a number of years and the goal is to get into one of them. For the foreseeable future, there will be a college football playoff, so if you can get into a conference, you have a shot. And, more money.
Love it!
While I understand your take on things completely.... Look what the school has done to help football with the label of basketball capitol of the world. Not only from Dan but painted on the floor of the court. Again no attack on your take but how does one counter the speech from a recruiting coach to a prospect that UConn is simply a basketball school?
You can throw the "Basketball Capital" tag at Duke, Kentucky, UNC, or Kansas because they all prioritize basketball over football and everyone, including football recruits knows if they go there they will be the 2nd most important show in town. Despite that, they still manage to have respectable football programs.
Narratives like this chart doesn’t help the football cause…
Surest way to mediocrity is to accept your circumstance. We all know the reasons why not. We need the guys that will a way a can and will.
This season, UConn football will play 8 schools in which UConn spends more on football and 4 that spend more than UConn. Maryland is the only school on the schedule that spends significantly more than UConn. And, UConn has 7 home games this season. Why can't UConn win 6 to 8 games this year? If you win, you get more fans, who buy more tickets, who donate more money,...
It's just a bad read of the data. We spend at the top of the "G5"
It's not necessarily an agenda, but a reinforcement (confirmation bias) of an impression left by UConn's actions and success/failure. UConn is doing something non-standard. Football has struggled over the last dozen years... UConn left an all sports conference and made it's football program and independent to align with a stronger basketball conference. The lack of success plus the conference move gives rise to a perception that UConn isn't serious about football (the argument: "if you were you'd invest more and the program would be successful" or "you wouldn't take your program out of the top (then) G5 conference to select a basketball league"). It gets reinforced when conference alignment is being driven by potential broadcast revenue and 80% of the value is driven by football.
It does... in fact UConn spends about the same amount on recruiting for Women's Basketball as it does for Football
I mean sure. But a lot of it is bad faith arguing or straight up stupidity by talking heads and the people who promote the narrative. These people don't know what they're talking about but are given (or give themselves) the authority to act as an expert.
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