Jim Mora Expresses Frustration Amid Lack of UConn's NIL Funds
The UConn Huskies football team wraps up their disappointing 2-9 season Saturday against UMass and head coach Jim Mora has been open about his frutrations in his second year at the helm.
The Huskies went 6-7 a year ago and lost in the Myrtle Beach Bowl, so winning half that number of games in year two is not what anybody was hoping for.
But in the NIL era, Mora made sure to send a message to the donors and pointed at the lack of NIL resources as a big reason, per Nick Kosko of On3.
“We’re a better football team with a worse record and that’s extremely frustrating, you know, because you see where the world is going. And we play like I said, go look at the top Group of Five teams in the country and look at their schedule and compare it to our schedule. So if we’re going to play those teams and people want us to beat Duke and North Carolina State and Syracuse and Maryland next year and Wake Forest next year, then there needs to be a commitment monetarily to helping us get the players that can beat them...Because if you’re not going to help us get the players to beat them, then you are not entitled to b**** when we don’t beat them.”
Mora certainly has a point, and other college head coaches have echoed a similar sentiment: If the NIL funds aren't there, how can the better players be lured to the program?
UConn does have losses against Duke, James Madison and Tennessee, as well as one-score losses to Florida International, Utah State, Boston College, and South Florida. The facts are that they played close against a number of teams, and a handful of players could easily have swung their record from 2-9 to 5-6 or 6-5.
With the men's and women's basketball team being pegged as national powerhouses, perhaps more funds come in toward helping the football program.
