UCLA hires Jim Mora, Jr. as new head coach

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Well, hiring your fourth choice is better than your fifth or sixth choice, right?

 

After being rebuffed by the likes of Boise State’s Chris Petersen, Houston’s Kevin Sumlin and Washington’s Steve Sarkisian, UCLA has finally found their replacement for Rick Neuheisel. The Los Angeles Times is reporting, and the Orange County Register is confirming, that the Bruins have reached an agreement with former Atlanta Falcons and Seattle Seahawks head coach Jim Mora Jr. to become their next head football coach.

 

An announcement expected Saturday, with the introductory news conference to take place this coming week at an undetermined date and time.

 

The reports connecting Mora Jr. to the job began to pick up in earnest the middle of last week after the Bruins’ overtures to other candidates were summarily dismissed.

 

The only experience Mora Jr., who is currently a color analyst for FOX Sports NFL games, has at coaching at the collegiate level was at Washington way back in 1984. And, as noted by the Times, Mora Jr. becomes the first head coach at UCLA since 1949 with no direct ties to the university, although his father Jim Mora Sr. was an assistant coach in 1974.

 

Mora Jr. last coached at any level in Seattle in 2009, when he was replaced by, oddly enough, Pete Carroll after he decided to leave the Bruins’ cross-town rivals USC for the NFL.

 

I expected to see him coach somewhere again but at UCLA is sorta a weird place to see it happen.

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Someone should tell UCLA he's not the answer. That hire is flat out rah tarded.