Fans, media troll UConn on social media after announcing Jim Mora as new head coach
By Adam Spencer
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UConn has found its new football coach, and it was a guy not many expected to be in the mix.
That would be former UCLA coach Jim Mora, who hasn’t coached since the Bruins fired him before the end of the 2017 season.
UConn made the hiring official on Thursday morning, sending out a tweet welcoming Mora to the program:
Welcome to UConn, Coach Mora! ?
? » https://t.co/B89ReXFSyK | #BleedBlue pic.twitter.com/5YFGjuCE2S
— UConn Football (@UConnFootball) November 11, 2021
Naturally, this decision to hire a guy who hasn’t been in the coaching ranks in nearly 5 years drew some raised eyebrows across the country.
As you can see below, fans and media members were confused by UConn’s choice for its next head coach. Here were some of the responses:
Say what now? https://t.co/xg3LK8ap1A
— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) November 11, 2021
Why hire a young, unproven coach when you can hire someone who has a long and proven track record of being fair-to-middling? https://t.co/jq8AZV8MOG
— Seth Emerson (@SethWEmerson) November 11, 2021
when your team
hires a guy
and it makes
you say why
that's a-Mora
(that's a-Mora)
when you are
losing games
and your pro-
gram's in flames
that's a-Mora https://t.co/H8Ip4E9EXo— Nick Suss (@nicksuss) November 11, 2021
https://twitter.com/GsonJW/status/1458816643463843841
Of all the coaches they could have hired…
This is one of them. https://t.co/opFtirebfT
— Forgotten5 (@RememberF5) November 11, 2021
https://twitter.com/PodvsEveryone/status/1458815381708017667
https://twitter.com/AndyGlockner/status/1458815024231706629
What is wrong with these schools? Stop hiring failed retreads. You will stay bad forever…literally. https://t.co/M6VrJynYV9
— Jourdan Case (@TheJourdanCase) November 11, 2021
https://t.co/gIwJjSVNEO pic.twitter.com/LbhJBQOFWX
— Ryan Roberts (@RiseNDraft) November 11, 2021
Well that’s certainly a choice. https://t.co/Fb3m7by8Xl
— Phillip (@OKTXARPoke) November 11, 2021
Can Mora turn the UConn program around? That’ll be a tough task moving forward.
Adam is a daily fantasy sports (DFS) and sports betting expert. A 2012 graduate of the University of Missouri, Adam now covers all 16 SEC football teams. He is the director of DFS, evergreen and newsletter content across all Saturday Football brands.
