OT: Chip Kelly's Contract worth $32.5 million
Title says it all. Saw this link on ESPN. It's a 5 year deal so that comes out to $6.5 million/year compared with his $3.4 million at Oregon. Quite a pay raise if you ask me.
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/8862852/chip-kelly-contract-philadelp…
January 20th, 2013 at 5:16 PM ^
January 20th, 2013 at 5:19 PM ^
January 20th, 2013 at 5:22 PM ^
going by 2012 numbers.
http://espn.go.com/blog/playbook/dollars/post/_/id/719/bill-belichick-h…
January 20th, 2013 at 9:03 PM ^
According to this, he was the 9th highest paid coach in Division I football as it was, so it is interesting that what amounts to basically a 90% raise or thereabouts makes you about the sixth highest paid professional coach. I am sure the pay scales are different, but still, that's an impressive raise.
January 20th, 2013 at 5:22 PM ^
January 20th, 2013 at 5:21 PM ^
No wife and kids to blow it on either.
January 20th, 2013 at 5:48 PM ^
.....Any Given Sunday. Without having won anything
January 20th, 2013 at 5:23 PM ^
Now he's making half as much as me. I'm going to have to ask for a raise.
/s
January 20th, 2013 at 5:32 PM ^
And yet he hires Pat Fucking Shurmer as his OC.
Money don't buy brains......
January 20th, 2013 at 5:35 PM ^
at any level.
January 20th, 2013 at 6:56 PM ^
I would imagine that it would take a big offer to pry him away from the college game. Merit may not have been the reason for the large contract.
January 20th, 2013 at 9:16 PM ^
I am sure the Eagles see Kelly as their answer to the NFL's trend towards traditionally college-minded offenses. Oh, to be the trend follower instead of the trendsetter.
January 20th, 2013 at 5:54 PM ^
January 20th, 2013 at 6:15 PM ^
What does a boring football obsessed workaholic spend all that money on?
January 20th, 2013 at 6:22 PM ^
after the 2011 Pac-12 Championship Game, he's going to be spending a good chunk of it drinking Dr. Pepper and shipping via UPS.
January 20th, 2013 at 6:34 PM ^
The cost of these coaches and players are rising rapidly. I haven't attended an NFL game in roughly five years but I can't imagine it would be cheap especially if the COACH is getting paid over six million a season.
January 20th, 2013 at 7:30 PM ^
like players' contracts. He's screwed once defenses catch up to these gimmick offenses like the zone read and his players lose all respect for their "college" coach.
January 20th, 2013 at 7:58 PM ^
Interesting dynamics when you consider other college coaches who could obviously have made the switch. Saban comes to mind and clearly has a lot of financial gain by moving back to the NFL despite his previous difficulties with the Dolphins. Has a good thing going at Bama but hard to believe that the draw is not pulling hard.
January 21st, 2013 at 8:15 AM ^
Chip's gimmicks are not going to transfer so smoothly to the NFL where his team won't have a significant speed advantage. Thankfully Philly should be too cold for him to wear one of those stupid visors. Maybe he can dress homeless-style like Belichick.
January 21st, 2013 at 10:24 AM ^
This means that Nick Saban's market value could be as high as $10 million a year. It could be enough to tempt him. Five years and $50 million would be a great "retirement contract,"