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-> Mora realized he needed to be focused on other things in this new NIL and transfer portal-reliant era, so he handed the defensive reigns over to former Mississippi State DC Matt Brock.
“It was imperative that I get a good defensive coordinator so that I could manage things,” he said after Tuesday night’s
UConn Coaches Road Showstop in Southington.
“I like being a head coach. The first year I liked fielding the defense, last year I felt a little overwhelmed. But with the changes now, and the new personalities, having to manage the team – and I have a very young staff, there’s not a guy on our staff that’s even 40 years old yet. It was just important to get someone good in so I could do really what I’m supposed to be doing, so I fired myself.”
The change allows him to be more available to everyone in the organization, rather than spending so much of his time in defensive meetings and risking a disconnect with the rest of the team. <-
-> “There’s four guys in there that are all really good players… it’s a really solid room,” he said. “They can all spin it, they can all throw it well, they’re all good decision makers.”
Evers, who comes in after spending time at Oklahoma and Wisconsin but almost never getting an opportunity to play, is in position to compete for a starting spot with the Huskies. “His arm talent is off the charts. He’s a 6-foot-3 guy that’ll weigh 205-210 pounds when the season starts and he runs a 4.5 (40-yard sprint), so he can take off and roll. He can deliver the ball on time, on target, moving out of the pocket to his right or his left. He’s been coached by some really good coaches at Oklahoma and at Wisconsin, so even though he hasn’t played a lot, he’s been exposed to really good coaching and really good competition,” Mora said.
The four quarterbacks have been able to bond in their limited time together, which impressed Evers. “Nick even made that comment to me yesterday, he goes, ‘These guys just want to help me.’ That, to me, tells you your team’s healthy,” Mora said. “We’re lucky. We don’t have any entitled guys on our team. We’ve brought in guys from the Big Ten, the SEC and the Big 12 and all of them at some point will come up to me and say, ‘Wow, this is different. Guys here, they just embrace me, they’re glad I’m here.’ A guy from the SEC said, ‘The way we work is so different than we ever worked at my former school.'” <-
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