Fire Mac and roll carpet out for Chip Kelly

[InstiGATOR1]

This got 3 likes? We've had among the worst offenses in the nation for 7 years running and people are turning their noses up at Chip Kelly?

Was Saban's brand damaged when he was fired by Miami?

Or Spurrier's brand by his time working for an owner who could turn a Hall of Fame coach like Joe Gibbs into a coach with a losing record.

 

[oxrageous]

Kelly's performance in the NFL has absolutely nothing to do with college football. Nothing. It's completely apples and oranges.

 

[NavetG8r]

Kelly's performance in the NFL has absolutely nothing to do with college football. Nothing. It's completely apples and oranges.

 

[oxrageous]

I guess you feel the same way about Saban and Spurrier then. Failing in the NFL means nothing.

 

[NavetG8r]

I guess you feel the same way about Saban and Spurrier then. Failing in the NFL means nothing.

Naaa, I just love that gif.

 

[ATXGator]

I guess you feel the same way about Saban and Spurrier then. Failing in the NFL means nothing.

I think that was a different age... in today's age of social media failure is magnified.
Saban choose to leave Miami... he wasn't fired. He made the choice to go back to college. That is much different than being forced back to college after being a failure.
Spurrier failed, but he had already won a title at UF and honestly was never as good at USCe as he was at Florida. It isn't like Spurrier was pulling 5* talent.

Kelly failed in a big way.. he failed and got fired from two organizations and I personally think his brand is damaged.

The bottom line isn't that Kelly may not be better than Mac... it is that you can't fire Mac after two seasons to replace him with a guy unless that guy is a home run... I don't see Kelly as a home run.

 

[CGgater]

Naaa, I just love that gif.

Ha! I was about to suggest you were more eager to post the hottie gif than argue about Ox's point. Then I scrolled down a bit more...

 

[rogdochar]

All these volleys over Mac's non-guru-ness, Grier's loss, Mac's recruiting failure, etc. begs creation of a
new descriptive word = rigamaroil.

 

[BNAG8R]

I don't have a single alias on this board except for DooDooBrown, who is only around for testing purposes and doesn't post.

 

[GatorJ]

I think that was a different age... in today's age of social media failure is magnified.
Saban choose to leave Miami... he wasn't fired. He made the choice to go back to college. That is much different than being forced back to college after being a failure.
Spurrier failed, but he had already won a title at UF and honestly was never as good at USCe as he was at Florida. It isn't like Spurrier was pulling 5* talent.

Kelly failed in a big way.. he failed and got fired from two organizations and I personally think his brand is damaged.

The bottom line isn't that Kelly may not be better than Mac... it is that you can't fire Mac after two seasons to replace him with a guy unless that guy is a home run... I don't see Kelly as a home run.

Wut? Spurrier turned South Carolina, who has never won crap, never… Into a monster in the east. One that gave Urban Meyer one of his signature wins with the blocked kick. He is the all-time winningest coach at South Carolina. The greatest coach they've ever had.

 

[TN G8R]

I've wanted Chip Kelly to not be successful in the NFL with the hope that one day he would return to college and coach here. I have this nightmare that next season Tennessee has a horrible year and lure Chip there.

 

[Himey]

Does anyone remember how good of a recruiter Kelly was while in college?

 

[MidwestChomp]

Does anyone remember how good of a recruiter Kelly was while in college?

I think he was a top 20 guy, but not a top 10 recruiter.

 

[Gator Fever]

Does anyone remember how good of a recruiter Kelly was while in college?

He had a # 9, # 13 and # 16 class in his last 3 years there - not too bad considering Oregon doesn't hardly produce any blue chip recruits I would think.

 

[NavetG8r]

He had a # 9, # 13 and # 16 class in his last 3 years there - not too bad considering Oregon doesn't hardly produce any blue chip recruits I would think.

This board would absolutely go into full meltdown mode if we had classes like that, oh wait...

 

[oxrageous]

This board would absolutely go into full meltdown mode if we had classes like that, oh wait...

If we were going 49-7 with the best offense in college football during the same span, I don't think so.

 

[NavetG8r]

If we were going 49-7 with the best offense in college football during the same span, I don't think so.

He didn't go 49-7 with those recruiting classes in the SEC. Big difference imo.

 

[Gator Fever]

This board would absolutely go into full meltdown mode if we had classes like that, oh wait...

He was at frickin Oregon. Who out west there besides USC is ever going to get hardly any top 10 class.