Chip Kelly to UCLA: $4 Mil/Year

[GBHOR]

We'll all know in good time when this drama plays itself out, UFs true commitment to Football moving forward, the details of the offer or offers to coaches and commitment to FB infrastructure

 

[901Gator]

BBU - BARGAIN BIN U baby!!

Pretty sure SS knows he can’t get away with that this time.....

What if he announces himself as head coach on Monday?

 

[GatorJ]

SS better get something done quick recruits starting to decommit.

What recruits? Chase who was never solid to begin with, and Upshaw who is a dime a dozen 3 star DE?

Thank goodness that’s all it’s been.

 

[Dunder]

This is kind of / sort of newsworthy:

@BruceFeldmanCFB: Chip Kelly won't be appearing on ESPN/ESPN2 today.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Why close the thread? Just change the title.... Again lol

Because we have a "other coaches" thread

 

[STUNZEED]

You Monday morning quarterbacks crack me up. Had UF taken the cool approach, it would have be criticized for not trying hard enough. Now it gets panned for trying too hard.

You are spot on. I’m embarrassed at what our fan base has become.

 

[cover2]

Hell, no reason they can’t enter the Kelly sweepstakes also. That dude is getting more play than Mary Jane Rotten Crotch.

...through her 'purty pink panties!"

 

[Dunder]

And this...

@HuskerExtraSip: Mike Riley just showed up at stadium. Said he has not heard from A.D. Plans to watch film of Iowa game and try to make it a normal day.

 

[Dunder]

You are spot on. I’m embarrassed at what our fan base has become.

I’m not sure if it’s that or simply now we have the internet which exposes all the loonies to the rest of the world

 

[Swamp Donkey]

The meltdown on here might make the game seem like an afterthought

Who really GAF about Nusschump Ball v34.0?

 

[Swamp Donkey]

BBU - BARGAIN BIN U baby!!

Fooley can convince to hire Hudspeth, Fooley's #2 guy last time.

Hey, at least he is cheap!!!

 

[MertzJay26]

I’ve seen a couple guys use the phrase “I reserve the right to be wrong..”

That’s genius, why didn’t I think of using that?

“Chip is a done deal to UF. But I reserve the right to be wrong.”

 

[YLGator]

I can't think of a more depressing hire than Strong. Guy had three consecutive loosing seasons at Texas. That takes a special brand of incompetence. If we hire Strong, we should also leave the SEC and join the Sun Belt. We can then play all our games on Friday's in front of a few hundred disinterested fans.

Stoops was never interested, Kelly was. If Kelly wasn’t interested he would have shot down UF immediately just like he did with UT. Oh no, the “optics” are bad! Let’s not take a chance because if we fail we look bad. Loser speak.

"We tried" that's the mantra of losers everywhere. Winners close. End of story.

 

[LeeForThree]

We still have a shot at Kelly....no one thrown in the towel just yet!!!!!!!!

 

[Gatorious]

So, one more day until Chip Kelly is announced as new HBC of the Florida Gators!

Done.

Deal.

I'm psyched.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

we should also leave the SEC and join the Sun Belt.

Yeah maybe that is the plan. We are looking up to Cusa and AAC teams with better facilities, and have zero dedication to winning.

Id just as soon go to the Sunbelt as to return to our leatherhelmet days of being The Other Vanderbilt (without the prestigious academics). It seems we arrive in 2013 though.

 

[78]

Relax, guys. We're making a play for Frost and Norvell's still out there. Sky is still up there, not down here.

If you're at all like me, it's a mixed bag not getting Kelly. Sure, he would have brought excitement and innovation to the job and given us real hope of getting right back in the mix. But the talk of Kelly and all his baggage is not without merit. He's not a transparent manager, he can be difficult to get along with and he sure as hell doesn't like to recruit, which is at odds with being successful in the SEC.

Could he have recruited himself? I'm not sure that's the best of bets. I'm pretty sure Frost can.

I just want a guy who wants us as much as we want him and who we can plan on being here awhile.

 

[GatorStud]

An anxious and delicate time in Gator football to be sure. The athletic Admin botches this hiring selection spells another half decade+ of heavy booze drinking and eye rubbing.

 

[5-Star Finger]

Frost is in the driver's seat now. I think he understands that he can't possibly expect to be competitive in recruiting at Nebraska. Success seems important to him and that could be a really important "pain point." We're going to have to fight the pull home and his current employer who is going to pull out all the stops to try and keep him. We're also going to have somehow make this pitch to a candidate that now feels second fiddle do try and lure him with the Foley football facilities that have really set us back a decade at least. Oh, and your success or failure here will largely be defined by this hire. Good luck.

 

[Maxxodd]

Here we are sweating the small stuff, like what business did Florida have flying its president to New Hampshire, when this hire was never about the small. It was about the big, about big, big bucks and the sports apparel/shoe competition that is reshaping college football.

You thought UCLA didn't matter? Think again.

In May 2016, UCLA signed a $280 million, 15-year deal with Under Armour, the largest shoe and apparel deal in NCAA history, in a bid by Under Armour to counter Nike's dominance. Do the math. That's $18.66 million annually in change to throw around. And you wondered how they could toss out Mora and the $12M buyout and not blink. That's how.

UCLA, Ohio State and Texas all have quarter-billion-dollar-and-up deals. Florida is nowhere close.

Just wait until the Kelly terms are announced and you'll understand why UCLA won and Florida did not.

So, what you're saying is that we flew to New Hampshire, met Chip, proceeded to pull out a shiny new Nickel, grin, raise our eyebrows up and down, look alternately between Chip and the nickel and say, "enh? enh? enh?". Finally, after about one minute of awkward silence, Strick tells Chip to think about it.

Meanwhile, UCLA met Chip at the airport in a Brinks truck?

All this sounds as credible as anything I've heard in the last two weeks.