Great interview by Mora, but we should have all learned our lesson about Kick Ass Presser's! and coaches who "get it" by now. The results are on the field, fuck everything else.
Don James didn't always win championships. He had some lean years. But you always felt he was getting the most out of what he had and if he had a bad year he was going to work his ASS off to fix it. Mora gives me the same feeling. With Sark, I feel like when he fucks up his solution is to just turn the music up louder at practice. Guess I'm kind of old school Husky but just want to get back to days that even if you lost, at least you hurt a few of theirs, legally of course. Come home Jim.
Exactly, every coach is going to have down years. The thing is "down" years for great coaches are like 8-5/9-4.
Shit, I'd settle for a down year of 7-6 on occasion if UW was contending for the Rose Bowl the rest of the time and maybe having enough to have a shot at the national title once a decade or so. But the Seven-Win Steve Supporters think that's just asking for too much because things are just different now.
Yeah, they're different because we have a fucked up university and a fucked up football program led by fucked up administrators who hire fucked up coaches who turn great athletes into fucked up players.
This podcast affirms the sense I had after hearing Mora on the Dan Patrick show late last week. Like whuggy, I was a bit slow about appreciating what Mora could do for the program. He seems to have a vacancy in his heart and soul that will only be filled by returning to WA as the head coach.
There may be better qualified candidates, but I doubt there would be any with more passion for WA football than Mora.
I hope, without any realistic expectation of it happening, Mora becomes the HC at WA before next season.
A couple quereeries:
1) Who's in charge of arranging the charter plane to get us all down to Westwood to plead our case?
Don James didn't always win championships. He had some lean years. But you always felt he was getting the most out of what he had and if he had a bad year he was going to work his ASS off to fix it. Mora gives me the same feeling. With Sark, I feel like when he fucks up his solution is to just turn the music up louder at practice. Guess I'm kind of old school Husky but just want to get back to days that even if you lost, at least you hurt a few of theirs, legally of course. Come home Jim.
I don't question that Mora would be a step up.
But given that he can't beat Furd or Oregon, and got plunge red by Cal and Baylor, I have to think we should be aiming even higher.
Is that you F3? Mora's never coached against Oregon.
BTW, my mom is dead. She died in a fire(seriously). Gurgle.
James was HC for 17 years - Mora is the kind of guy who I see sticking around that long and having almost the same kind of success. Nobody will match DJ - more conference programs care about football than when James ruled - but Mora has all the tools to be the long term fix.
James was HC for 17 years - Mora is the kind of guy who I see sticking around that long and having almost the same kind of success. Nobody will match DJ - more conference programs care about football than when James ruled - but Mora has all the tools to be the long term fix.
James was HC for 17 years - Mora is the kind of guy who I see sticking around that long and having almost the same kind of success. Nobody will match DJ - more conference programs care about football than when James ruled - but Mora has all the tools to be the long term fix.
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Yeah, they're different because we have a fucked up university and a fucked up football program led by fucked up administrators who hire fucked up coaches who turn great athletes into fucked up players.
BTW, my mom is dead. She died in a fire(seriously).
Gurgle.