USC Dumps UCLA, Who Then Dump Mora

Published on 19-Nov-2017 by Alan Adamsson

Football - NCAA    NCAA Football Daily Update

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USC Dumps UCLA, Who Then Dump Mora

This year's installment LA's Battle for the Victory Bell had a bit of everything and more.

Even a Mora.

It's been that way for six years, but no longer.

UCLA Bruins fans have seen their opponents cut through Jim Mora's defensive schemes like a hot knife through butter for the last time. Dude got his walking papers the day after USC delivered a 28-23 knockout blow to his coaching tenure in the Rose Bowl.

The real bitch about the timing is today's Mora's birthday.

Apparently, a crafty Trojan trick play that produced six points -- when the Bruins lost by five -- just couldn't escape AD Dan Guererro's memory.

How Jordan Lasley's double-helmet ricochet catch didn't make that highlight package could be further proof that controlled substances permeate the Pac-12's facilities.

This was UCLA's fourth straight loss in the rivalry, which might've hastened the Guererro's announcement, too.

It'll probably all but guarantee Josh Rosen's departure. Odds are he'll have no desire to get accustomed to a new system. He can do that in the NFL and get paid for it.

Mora began his Bruin stint by putting together two straight 10-win seasons, but in spite of highly touted recruiting classes, UCLA's victory total kept dwindling. The talent vis à vis results disparity was clearly not a good look for the program.

But still, the timing.

Add this birthday anti-present to USC's firing Lane Kiffin on an airport tarmac, and you don't need Joe Biden to tell you LA's got no soul.

This isn't even Mora's craziest dismissal. The Atlanta Falcon's turfed him and his eventual 7-9 record when he joked on a Seattle sportstalk station that the Washington Huskies' gig was his dream job.

Gotta say, though, with the Bruins job in play, this oughta spice up the imminent coaching carousel.

On the bright side, Mora's now got time to take a little jaunt to a resort area in Sweden with a town that's got his name plastered all over it.

Just keep him away from their world-famous knives.