USA Today Sports: Chip Kelly Not Taking Florida Job
It's starting to look like he will end up at UCLA if he decides to return to coaching.
Confirmed: Florida’s out for Chip Kelly, potentially clearing the way for UCLA—but nothing’s certain.
— George Schroeder (@GeorgeSchroeder) November 24, 2017
(UCLA’s Under Armour affiliation remains a real issue because of Kelly's relationship w/ Phil Knight.)https://t.co/IgiuYZTQQD
via @usatodaysports
(1st reported by @YahooForde)
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Mike Riley hasn't even been fired yet but everyone on earth has been speculating on Nebraska's next coach for half the season. Sooo many open jobs.
I think Frost goes to Florida. It's just a much better job than Nebraska. Talent is so much better in Florida.
I actually think Bielema at Nebraksa would be a good fit.
Kelly to UCLA to bring him back to the PAC12.
November 24th, 2017 at 6:57 PM ^
He is speaking with Florida coming up so you may be right. It will be Florida or Nebraska but he would be a fool to choose Nebraska over Florida. Florida is a much better job and it's not close.
November 24th, 2017 at 6:09 PM ^
Florida fans must be fuming right now. They had the headstart on the coaching carousel this year and still botched it.
November 24th, 2017 at 6:12 PM ^
November 25th, 2017 at 12:06 AM ^
lot left for him to prove. I agree he has the higher ceiling because he might be an elite recruiter. Not sure that Chip Kelly is, but he took good not great recruiting to 4 straight BCS bowls at Oregon so his floor is much higher. Whomever gets him is almost gauranteed to compete for conference titles or better.
November 25th, 2017 at 1:23 AM ^
November 24th, 2017 at 6:13 PM ^
Haven't been paying much to that situation over the last few days. I know he turned them down, but did they really botch it so much as he decided it wasn't for him?
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Arkansas just canned Bielema
November 24th, 2017 at 7:11 PM ^
so in honor of Thanksgiving, here is a turkey
November 24th, 2017 at 7:59 PM ^
Doesn't matter who the media mentions, but who wants the job? They just fired a guy they picked with a good G5 track record and now they're going to have to do that again. They may have to take a risk and get a guy without head coaching experience, like Brent Venables.
November 24th, 2017 at 8:04 PM ^
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would be a fool to take any coaching job now...then he would have to prove he was good at it and worth the hype and bux.
November 24th, 2017 at 9:27 PM ^
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Michigan when we fired Hoke. But we weren't a mess. We had two great recruiting classes about to become upperclassmen. Florida is Florida.
MSU also looked like a total mess last year and all through the offseason. Look what they did.
It doesn't necessarily take a long time to turn things around in college football. It can happen quickly with the right coaching.
November 24th, 2017 at 6:12 PM ^
will get a call from someone. Will Chip Kelly go back to Oregon?
November 24th, 2017 at 6:13 PM ^
Although I have no clue who this person is, he asked the right question here -
What was your favorite memory from the Chip Kelly era at UF?
— Bryce (@Brycearoni8) November 24, 2017
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Come on, Fleck to Florida. Spencer Hall might cry.
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UF...so far.
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November 24th, 2017 at 7:12 PM ^
why the whole UnderArmour/Nike thing is such a big deal. Is he friends with Phil Knight, or is he a Nike Employee of Phil Knight.
If nothing else, you'd think Knight would be happy for him to go to a different school. If/when Kelly is successful, he might be able to exert influence to switch them to Nike.
In any case, if I were a UF fan, I wouldn't be too excited about Scott Frost. We know how the hot Group of 5 coach worked for them last time.
November 24th, 2017 at 7:38 PM ^
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Frost just took a team that was winless and in two seasons have them undefeated. That's pretty impressive. A lot of coaches come from smaller schools first, including our own.
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Yeah. I would think so too. It's just been a mess down there lately. I think Chip Kelly would have been a good fit there because with the recent lack of offense there, they have to be pining for the days of Spurrier and running up the score.
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But didn't UCF go from 12-0 to 0-12 with the last coach and then just now went back to undefeated with Frost? It seems more like the last guy just really mailed it in his last year, I think he even quit mid-season
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wasn't as hot as Frost though. That was a bit of a wtf headscratching hire. Tom Herman (at Houston) and some other hires were viewed, even at the time, as better hires.
Even this Athon Sports article had his hire the 6th best at the time (out of only 14 coaching hires in all of FBS): https://athlonsports.com/college-football/grading-college-footballs-hea…
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If true, this is a hilarious disaster for Florida.
I say "if true" because we're hearing the high-level national media stuff, and some of the things they produce (such as Kelly is choosing between UCLA and Florida only) seem to have limited sourcing. We experienced this with the Harbaugh situation, where national media that isn't stupid just didn't have the sources that mattered for the college landscape. So this might be way off base, too.
But, if true, Florida misses their A+ hire candidate. And, I think, reasonably; I believe Kelly can win just as much at UCLA as he can at Florida, where the weather is nice and the talent base is great and there is neither the pressure nor the Saban-coached elephant in the room.
Florida would need to go after Frost, which they might get and might succeed pretty well. But then, by domino principle, that leaves Nebraska without a slam-dunk candidate, something else I can point and laugh about.