Jim Mora has lived a charmed football life. He’s the son of a longtime NFL coach, held marquee head coaching jobs in college and the NFL, and even worked as a football commentator for multiple networks.
Since being fired at UCLA in 2017, Mora has yearned to return to coaching. That gilded football path took an unexpected turn on Thursday when the University of Connecticut hired Mora as its head coach on Thursday morning.
UConn is 1-8 this season, nearly 3,000 miles from Mora’s last coaching job and operates as one of the few independent FBS programs in the sport.