See, I love this vibe 
He inherited Rick's guys, most notably, Brett Hundley. Hundley was to start his freshman year, got injured during summer, and missed Rick's last season.Mora recruited well and had the best UCLA teams of this millennium. They could never get over the edge and beat the best teams though - Oregon and Stanford. He also needed high level talent to do that.
Like Deboer?He inherited Rick's guys, most notably, Brett Hundley. Hundley was to start his freshman year, got injured during summer, and missed Rick's last season.Mora recruited well and had the best UCLA teams of this millennium. They could never get over the edge and beat the best teams though - Oregon and Stanford. He also needed high level talent to do that.
Rick still made the first P12 championship game, getting plungered by my Ducks at Autzen Auditorium.
But the next 2-3 seasons under Mora were mostly a result of Rick's guys. T he evidence is the giant drop-off by year 4, once Mora had his guys in there.
It's a bullshit narrative that Mora did anything special at UCLA that wasn't largely gifted to him.
like Myles Jack? Jesus dude. UW recruited against Mora so get fuck out of here with that bull shit.He inherited Rick's guys, most notably, Brett Hundley. Hundley was to start his freshman year, got injured during summer, and missed Rick's last season.Mora recruited well and had the best UCLA teams of this millennium. They could never get over the edge and beat the best teams though - Oregon and Stanford. He also needed high level talent to do that.
Rick still made the first P12 championship game, getting plungered by my Ducks at Autzen Auditorium.
But the next 2-3 seasons under Mora were mostly a result of Rick's guys. T he evidence is the giant drop-off by year 4, once Mora had his guys in there.
It's a bullshit narrative that Mora did anything special at UCLA that wasn't largely gifted to him.
The 4-8 team he got from Lake?Like Deboer?He inherited Rick's guys, most notably, Brett Hundley. Hundley was to start his freshman year, got injured during summer, and missed Rick's last season.Mora recruited well and had the best UCLA teams of this millennium. They could never get over the edge and beat the best teams though - Oregon and Stanford. He also needed high level talent to do that.
Rick still made the first P12 championship game, getting plungered by my Ducks at Autzen Auditorium.
But the next 2-3 seasons under Mora were mostly a result of Rick's guys. T he evidence is the giant drop-off by year 4, once Mora had his guys in there.
It's a bullshit narrative that Mora did anything special at UCLA that wasn't largely gifted to him.
The players he got from Pete. The Lake years didn't happen they were merely a mirageThe 4-8 team he got from Lake?Like Deboer?He inherited Rick's guys, most notably, Brett Hundley. Hundley was to start his freshman year, got injured during summer, and missed Rick's last season.Mora recruited well and had the best UCLA teams of this millennium. They could never get over the edge and beat the best teams though - Oregon and Stanford. He also needed high level talent to do that.
Rick still made the first P12 championship game, getting plungered by my Ducks at Autzen Auditorium.
But the next 2-3 seasons under Mora were mostly a result of Rick's guys. T he evidence is the giant drop-off by year 4, once Mora had his guys in there.
It's a bullshit narrative that Mora did anything special at UCLA that wasn't largely gifted to him.
A seven win improvement is pretty great, no doubt. A close second would be Sarks taking a talentless 0-12 team and winning 5 his first season. Just amazing! How did he do it?The 4-8 team he got from Lake?Like Deboer?He inherited Rick's guys, most notably, Brett Hundley. Hundley was to start his freshman year, got injured during summer, and missed Rick's last season.Mora recruited well and had the best UCLA teams of this millennium. They could never get over the edge and beat the best teams though - Oregon and Stanford. He also needed high level talent to do that.
Rick still made the first P12 championship game, getting plungered by my Ducks at Autzen Auditorium.
But the next 2-3 seasons under Mora were mostly a result of Rick's guys. T he evidence is the giant drop-off by year 4, once Mora had his guys in there.
It's a bullshit narrative that Mora did anything special at UCLA that wasn't largely gifted to him.
Fautanu, Rosengarden, Trice, ZTF, McMillan, Odunze, Tuli were key players that Pete recruitedHe brought the key players
And he knew what to do with the rest
The players Pete couldn't win with and quit
I wonder why I think doogs in the AD didn't know if DeBoer was any good and let him walk
And I remember those of you who were there trying to sell it
That coach was acting like a 20 year old linebacker that just got a targeting called against himThis is my favorite memory of Mora as a HC:
Yeah, that's what I thought too. I had a hard time imagining him being here long. I thought DB would be here for a while."What we need is a coach that cares more about the program than we (fans) do." - @JoeyFolks failing at their alma mater data has a lot of correlation but not necessarily causation.
I'm only in the Mora camp specifically because of what he's doing at a literal dumpster fire of college football (UConn).
His ties to UW are somewhat immaterial to me honestly. It's one of the things that puts him on our radar, but for me it's only because UW might be an actual destination job for him.
Amen
Whether Judd is here one more year (or more!) or not, I doubt some of us will ever consider him a great fit. It just has never felt right to me from the get go.
Retreads are not the way. When was the last time it worked? Look at the trajectory of Boner, Elko, Cignetti, Kirby Moore, Brent Key, etc. The Lane Train/Sark bumble around and fail upwards into a top 10 progrum isn't going to happen at UW. And UW isn't going to be able to hire away Rhett Lashlee or Brian Brohm. It has to be a lower tier dude who comes up.If by some miracle UCLA hired Fisch which I believe is still a possibly.
I’m so down in the dumps with the direction of college football and UW coaching prospects that Mora might actually bring a little excitement for me as a fan. I’d definitely swap him for Fisch.
Not comparing Mora to Pete Carrol but he was considered an average coach once he was fired by New England and went the college route to rebuild his coaching philosophy. I imagine Mora is much more mature and gotten his season legs and I'd be super cool taking a flyer on Jim because I have no confidence the AD will get someone like Cigarette Light.
Dillingham might be an exception to this rule.hire-the-alumni trick rarely works. It's just a feel-good hire that never pans out at 90% of the time. Frost/Nebraska Neu/UCLA etc etc
Didn’t Rick make the championship game because USC was on probation.He inherited Rick's guys, most notably, Brett Hundley. Hundley was to start his freshman year, got injured during summer, and missed Rick's last season.Mora recruited well and had the best UCLA teams of this millennium. They could never get over the edge and beat the best teams though - Oregon and Stanford. He also needed high level talent to do that.
Rick still made the first P12 championship game, getting plungered by my Ducks at Autzen Auditorium.
But the next 2-3 seasons under Mora were mostly a result of Rick's guys. T he evidence is the giant drop-off by year 4, once Mora had his guys in there.
It's a bullshit narrative that Mora did anything special at UCLA that wasn't largely gifted to him.