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ApostleofGrief
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What I don't understand about you guys who think Mora is headed up here can be narrowed down to these questions:
1) Why would he abandon a very lucrative contract, I think around $2,000,000.00 for about the same salary?
2) Why would he return to the UW when it has a completely different cast of characters than when he played here? Not to mention, he is hardly even going to be in the same facilities. Hardly anything at all remains from his era save the Montlake overpass.
3) Why, after recruiting heavily and seemingly well for UCLA, would he put himself in the position to coach against his recruits?
4) Why, when it is so difficult to be a successful head football coach, after he has found success in a high profile, top notch program, would he abandon it?
5) Why would he return to a metropolitan area in which 99% of football fans remember him exclusively for being a fired, middling Seahawks coach?
6) And the big question is: Does anybody really believe that having played for Don James and going to the UW will result in a better performance than another candidate?
I WANT ANSWERS! I don't want bombs and bullshit. You keep posting Mora this, Mora that, but you are living in fantasyland.
1) Why would he abandon a very lucrative contract, I think around $2,000,000.00 for about the same salary?
2) Why would he return to the UW when it has a completely different cast of characters than when he played here? Not to mention, he is hardly even going to be in the same facilities. Hardly anything at all remains from his era save the Montlake overpass.
3) Why, after recruiting heavily and seemingly well for UCLA, would he put himself in the position to coach against his recruits?
4) Why, when it is so difficult to be a successful head football coach, after he has found success in a high profile, top notch program, would he abandon it?
5) Why would he return to a metropolitan area in which 99% of football fans remember him exclusively for being a fired, middling Seahawks coach?
6) And the big question is: Does anybody really believe that having played for Don James and going to the UW will result in a better performance than another candidate?
I WANT ANSWERS! I don't want bombs and bullshit. You keep posting Mora this, Mora that, but you are living in fantasyland.
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You're fucking retarded on this issue, dude. IMALOSER territory
Queens to queens level six.
I'm with you, actually. I think the Mora-to-UW ship has sailed. You know who played for and got their start in coaching at the University of Oregon?
Jim McKay.
You know who else?
John Robinson.
And...
George Seifert.
And...
Chris Petersen.
I don't think any of those guys think of themselves as Ducks anymore. I think that if Mora makes a name for himself coaching at UCLA, he's gonna be a Bruin FO LIFE.
I assume UW should be able to pay him $3 to $3.5 million per year, easily. And based on what we've seen of late, UW will give him much more money to pay assistants than he's been given at UCLA.
2. WTF does this have to do with anything? I left Seattle in 95, hardly anything is the same. Mariners have a new stadium, Seahawks have a new stadium, Sonics no longer exist, Huskies have a rebuilt stadium. None of that means I no longer want to return. Jake Almighty man, the dude lived in the city two years ago. He grew up in Seattle. This is the dumbest question on a list of dumb questions.
3. Because a) money talks b) he loves his alma mater and c) he knows with USC set to return to dominance in LA, Washington has greater long term potential than UCLA does.
4. You keep asking the same question in different ways. People leave successful jobs for more money all the time.
5. Because he loves this metro area? Because he wants to change his reputation in this metro area? Because most people realize he only had one year with the Seahawks? BECAUSE HE"S FROM HERE?
6. No. We've answered this for you a million times. There's a reason we're not hot to trot for Gary Pinkel. There's a reason no other Don James connected coach or UW alum ever appears on any of our lists. We're not after Mora because he's a UW alum.
There's your answers. I'm sure you'll still be PeopleMuncherFS enough to ignore all of them and keep cursing the imaginary chasing of the ghost of Don James.
1. for less than or equal to the same? maybe he wouldn't. for more? maybe he would.
2. that's irrelevant. why does Michael Irvin and 50 other ex-Hurricanes flash the U and go down there every chance they can get to try and help that program return to relevancy? why do they care? the cast of characters has changed.
3. that's just part of the gig. if that kept people from moving, nobody would ever move.
4. good question. maybe he wouldn't. nobody but him really knows.
5. something tells me Mora doesn't have the same desperate need to be liked as Sark does. something also tells me Mora probably doesn't give two shyts what people on the Sammamish Plateau think about anything.
6. no. they think he can coach, and based on what he's doing with UCLA, it appears they may be right. I was one who thought he'd never be able to stomach the recruiting process and that he'd be shitty at it. it appears I was wrong.
Most posters here, Huskie fans, see Mora as a savior and secretly hope he will arrive and recreate the Don James era. They aren't interested much in the problems with the idea. They aren't going to come out and say that, but it is not hard to read between the lines.
My hunch is Chianti Dan will fuck it up eventually and Mora will end up back in the NFL as a HC someday.
With that being said, I still think Mora is the 1st guy you contact, just to cover your bases. You never know until you ask.
Then, I would offer Tim DeRuyter the job immediately.
b. They see him as a guy we should have, and perhaps could have (depending on the poster), hired instead of Sarkesian.
I really don't think the average Mora supporter is on the edge of his seat waiting for UW to make an overture to Mora. I think most of them think that ship sailed.
You asked a series of questions that dealt with the obstacles. I don't think there are a whole lot here who posit that there are no obstacles. The obstacles you listed are either not real obstacles or they are obstacles that can be overcome.
one of your points had some weight with me: if he's doing well at UCLA, with all its inherent advantages, why would he leave to take over a project? how much weight can nostalgia carry? is living in Westwood on his budget just as nice, or nicer, than living here? does he really want to be in Seattle over where he is now (more easily answered if he's in some shit hole)?
nobody who isn't very, very close to him knows the answer to those questions. so, of course, what you're going to get is supposition.
No shit he was strange. Nothing much has changed on that.
But no, Mora isn't coming here even if Sark does get fired. Which he probably won't anyway,
Mora is what we call a "doog identifier" The butt hurt over the mere mention of his name 6 years after he undercut the beloved Ty Willingham is impossible for doogs to hide. Doogs started when Mora was coaching the Hawks with their nonsense.
Watching Mora kick their ass Friday was nice. We should all get used to it. The doogs won - Mora will stay at UCLA and we'll stay at 7 wins.
Its a win - win deal
well, whoever setup firecoachsark.com has Mora first on the list of his candidates. I suspect a great many posters, including me to a little extent, think if he came back it would be like Don James all over again. What people need to do is stop the fantasy thinking and return to reality.