has witnessed far more demoralizing circumstances than an ailing quarterback and a team that’s one game below .500 with three games left in the season.
The UCLA coach recalled Monday the vitriol directed at his father during the struggles that preceded the elder Jim Mora guiding the New Orleans Saints to the first winning season in franchise history in 1987.
“Someone had taken a stuffed dummy with the name ‘Mora’ across it and a noose around its neck and [threw] it over the side of the Superdome,” he said. “You know, I’ve heard about everything directed at me or directed at my dad that you could imagine.