UConn football’s decision to hire Jim Mora as head football coach is drawing polarized reactions.
To some, he’s a relatively big-name hire who had some success at UCLA, has experience program building, and has the opportunity to recruit well and make smart staffing decisions. He brings a very strong pedigree to a program looking for something.
To others, he’s mastered the art of presentation but lacks substance, a beneficiary of nepotism who washed out of his previous job because he couldn’t win with his own recruits.
The truth, of course, is somewhere in the middle.
Mora has at least said all the right things since arriving in Storrs.