Chip Kelly to UCLA: $4 Mil/Year

divits · Nov 19, 2017

Having spent most of my career in sales I can tell you that rarely do you get a second chance to close a sale. You give it your very best shot, try to cover all your bases, prepare for any possible objection and then close, close, close. I have a sickening feeling we blew our shot.

BluH2OGtr · Nov 19, 2017

ThreatMatrix said:
It's possible we went up knowing he wanted to talk to UCLA but figured we'd go try to close the deal.

You beat me to it

78 · Nov 19, 2017

Seems unlikely that Kelly and his agent wouldn't have wanted Florida to know about his plans with UCLA. It's what you do to leverage the deal.

Biggest question is whether money is the primary issue and whether Kelly allows it to become an all-out bidding war.

Edit: Agree, Divits, if Florida knew in advance he intended to talk to UCLA. If Florida did not know, I'd expect him to give us a chance to counter.

krisl648 · Nov 19, 2017

Anyone at the airport? Ready to cry myself to sleep.

GatorShea · Nov 19, 2017

I really think that some of the higher ups are arrogant enough that they believe they can just swing their di cks around and then hire whoever they want. The last two hires, however, tell otherwise. Three straight terrible hires and there may not be enough chewing gum left to patch the sinking ship.

BluH2OGtr · Nov 19, 2017

'78 said:
Seems unlikely that Kelly and his agent wouldn't have wanted Florida to know about his plans with UCLA. It's what you do to leverage the deal.

Biggest question is whether money is the primary issue and whether Kelly allows it to become an all-out bidding war.

I don't think its about money...I think it's about Kelly enjoying all of the attention. Hell, the 49ers will be given him plenty of money for awhile

LongTooth · Nov 19, 2017

BluH2OGtr said:
Something to think about...If UCLA knew Mora was on his way out, who is to say that someone on the inside at UCLA didn't contact Kelly a few days ago, or even yesterday to try and get in his ear, and convinced him not to sign with UF until they could speak with him first.

His agent David Dunn flew to LA today before UF's people reached NH.

divits · Nov 19, 2017

'78 said:
Seems unlikely that Kelly and his agent wouldn't have wanted Florida to know about his plans with UCLA. It's what you do to leverage the deal.

Biggest question is whether money is the primary issue and whether Kelly allows it to become an all-out bidding war.

If it becomes a bidding war it raises a few red flags to me.

soflagator · Nov 19, 2017

ThreatMatrix said:
It's possible we went up knowing he wanted to talk to UCLA but figured we'd go try to close the deal.

No chance. The timing of this says that we panicked at the “news” today out of LA. We slow played this to not hurt feelings.

Buy the rumor, sell the fact. We botched it.

And because the focus immediately went to us vs UCLA, they couldn’t even casually arrange this meeting. So rather than being told discretely that he prefers another job, it’s now public knowledge that we got turned down.

ThreatMatrix · Nov 19, 2017

I don't think it's about money either. He's getting plenty from the NFL. But he had to have known the UCLA job was coming up if that's the job he really wanted. Why go down this long path with us?

BluH2OGtr · Nov 19, 2017

LongTooth said:
His agent David Dunn flew to LA today before UF's people reached NH.

They did, but I think a UCLA insider notified his camp that Mora was going to be fired

BluH2OGtr · Nov 19, 2017

ThreatMatrix said:
I don't think it's about money either. He's getting plenty from the NFL. But he had to have known the UCLA job was coming up if that's the job he really wanted. Why go down this long path with us?

To get UCLA to pull the trigger

78 · Nov 19, 2017

divits said:
If it becomes a bidding war it raises a few red flags to me.

There's already a few. I think anyway you slice this bid, we're moving outside our normal comfort level. You might even say we're selling our soul to a degree.

LongTooth · Nov 19, 2017

BluH2OGtr said:
They did, but I think a UCLA insider notified his camp that Mora was going to be fired

I agree. Hence, Dunn's plane ride today.

Since65 · Nov 19, 2017

LongTooth said:
FootballScoop tweeting added confirmation: "Florida took their shot. No deal yet."

Advantage UCLA.

I would have assumed that UF officials had something very concrete in hand before allowing the orchestrated twitter emojis from players. That wouldn't seem to be the kind of thing you would put in motion without a serious agreement, something more than just "we're hopeful that Chip will sign the contract we had talked about".

MertzJay26 · Nov 19, 2017

GatorShea · Nov 19, 2017

I'd be really surprised if Kelly comes to UF at this point. In fact, I would love for us to hire someone else before he even gets the UCLA job. I think he is using us.

KronoGator · Nov 19, 2017

ThreatMatrix said:
I don't think it's about money either. He's getting plenty from the NFL. But he had to have known the UCLA job was coming up if that's the job he really wanted. Why go down this long path with us?

To keep a backup ready.

If Mora had somehow beaten USC and won next week he likely keeps the job.

UF got played.

ThreatMatrix · Nov 19, 2017

UCLA firing Mora wasn't a surprise. UCLA's people had to have already reached out to Kelly.

Durty South Swamp · Nov 19, 2017

I hate football.

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