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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 4043739, member: 27"] A few things on this… Mora was bought out in 2017 for 12.2 million. It was likely paid in a series of installments, with the bulk of the money coming with the first installment. I know of no instance in the history of college sports where a coach was fired and got he university that did the firing would not pay the coach if he took another job. Some contracts reduce the money the firing school needs to pay based on the salary the coach gets at his next job. If anything, UCLA would want him to get another job to help reduce the money they owed Mora. Even if Mora did lose some money by taking another job, do you really think he would sit out for 4 years (almost suicide for a football coach) just to earn the last few payments of the buyout? Look what happened to him after being out of coaching for 4 years. He had to take the worst job in FBS to get hired. Here is a good review of how things actually work in college sports. [USER=4127]CousCuse[/USER], please take a look. [URL unfurl="true"]https://law.marquette.edu/assets/sports-law/pdf/Separation%20Agreements%206.25.pdf[/URL] It should be obvious to all that UConn is not going to be getting any highly recruited players during the Mora era. If he is to be successful, he and his staff need to do a great job identifying players with raw talent who can, over a period of years, be developed into serviceable FBS players. UConn needed to find someone who has experience identifying players with high ceilings and developing them into something. Someone from the MAC, the Patriot, maybe the Sunbelt or CUSA. Ideally someone with a strong background in the East who has a solid network of coaching associates he could use to build a coaching staff and start the long building process. If there is a bell curve for college football coaches, where one end features coaches focused almost exclusively on ability to identify and develop talent, and the other end focuses on coaches focused on recruiting great players, Mora is on the extreme edge of the recruiting side of the curve When he hired at UCLA, he hired a staff of great recruiters and had great success recruiting his first couple of years. He actually landed a couple of top 10 recruiting classes. But he and his staff were not good at coaching players, developing them, creating game plans, making adjustments, etc. As the players developed by Neihesiel graduated or transferred and he was left with his own players, his deficiencies as a coach were exposed and he was fired. It is going to be a huge challenge for someone so unfamiliar with the East and with no experience identifying and developing raw talent to be successful at UConn. That is why people are reacting to his hire like this: [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/college-football/fans-media-troll-uconn-on-social-media-after-announcing-jim-mora-as-new-head-coach/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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