NW OC Chip Kelly
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Man Penn St really sucks. Campbell and Becht should have stayed at Iowa St.
I mentioned this in the games thread. I don’t think he wants to be CFB HC. He doesn’t like doing all the things outside of the football like recruiting or gladhanding donors etc…which CFB HCs do.
That’s part of why he left UCLA to be OC at OSU.
If by some chance NFL HC came again, I think he’d do that but not CFB HC.
If someone wanted to pry him from NW as CFB OC, I could see that though.
We can have the football firm of Kelly & Kelly.
That’s part of why he left UCLA to be OC at OSU.
If by some chance NFL HC came again, I think he’d do that but not CFB HC.
If someone wanted to pry him from NW as CFB OC, I could see that though.
We can have the football firm of Kelly & Kelly.
He apparently doesn’t want to be a head coach. Prefers life as an OC.
We have had teams that would have had a chance but this team- I just don't see it. Because if State Penn is bad, we are even worse until my eyes tell me we aren't.
The OL I saw vs. UMass not a prayer. The OL I saw vs. USC it could be possible
Still remember Kelly forcing Nick Foles to run (more like lope) while with the Eagles. Comical. That NW QB is great for that offense.
We had Penn State beat last year. The mysterious fumble by our (now NFL) QB gave it away. It’s so Rutgers.
Amazing thread of play design from last night. When you don’t have all 4-5* players, you can have an identity and scheme your way to wins like this and the way Iowa always has. We could learn a thing or ten from these examples.
The fact that you call them really bad and we have a chance. Only a chance, tell u all u need to know about our team
Yes, last year we gave the game away to PSU with unforced errors ..same thing in 2014 with Nova at QB. Certainly looking to see if we can build on the improvement in the USC game… just hoping we can salvage the season. You are right the eyes don’t see it.
That was the year that Penn State's defensive coordinator promised his secondary (before the game) that they would get four interceptions and they got five. In 2012 he threw six vs Kent State
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I think before clock rule changes when there were greater numbers of plays per game and defenses couldn’t substitute (ball is held now if offense subs) like now it would be hard to win like that if you’re a lower status school.
With the changes in the game and defense also adapting to more spread offenses, I think there is a little shift to more physical football in some places.
But I don’t know that I’d call this meat head football per se any more than I’d call what Navy or Army run as meat head football. There’s a lot of eye candy and misdirection in the stuff Kelly used. I’d call what Harbaugh ran af Michigan and Stanford to be more meathead football than this style.
Kelly is creative and adapts to what he has. Schiano runs the same playbook no matter what and “isn’t in the business of tricking people”. That’s a meathead
Kelly was the OC of the 2004 New Hampshire team that took it to Schiano's Rutgers squad 31-24
Sean McDonnell, nicknamed "Coach Mac" was the HC of the Wildcats that year and had a long successful career there (157-104)
Kelly wasn't a bad College HC either( 81-44) but seems to have become tired of the HCing position and decided being an OC was more to his liking
He was running a version of the spread called "The Blur Offense" when it was still kind of new 15+ years ago. A lot of teams consulted with him and college teams imitated him. His problem was that he would win most games in regular season and then get beat in big games. He lost title game to Auburn. His Blur Offense doesn't stump teams anymore . Since 2023 he's been on four teams and fired by one. He's been coaching 36 years. These kind of coaches start to show they are winding down. I dont see Chip Kelly looking to take a reclamation job in the B1G
I remember when Army got Bobby Ross (former NFL Chargers coach) as coach when he was in his 60s and he admitted in an interview that it was hard for him to get excited by games
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