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Farsight

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Chip Kelly was Oregon's football coach for 4 solid years. He took Oregon to 4 BCS games and one being a title. That is super impressive. However, he did inherit a fantastic team, with his players as he was the offensive coordinator prior. Chip Kelly's brand of football is very exciting to watch and very fast. If he would take a job in the SEC he would have to recruit fast and big guys if he wanted his spread offense to shine.

Chip Kelly isn't doing so hot at the 49ers nor did he didn't do so well with the Eagles. Sometimes professional sports is a different breed of sport than college. Just like Slick Rick and Coach Cal are better suited for the college level. I also believe Chip Kelly is suited for the college level.

So my question to you guys, if Chip Kelly was interested in coming back to the college level and would be open to interview for Kentucky football, would you hire him? Consider him on the short list if Stoops has an awful year?
 
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Yes that is true. I am sure if Helfirch at Oregon doesn't do well he would pull a Bobby P. and go back to Oregon. I could actually see Texas taking him if Strong doesn't work out. But yeah... I would absolutely take Chip Kelly. Would make Kentucky fun to watch!
 
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ukdesi said:
Yes. And in a similar vain, I would also take Nick Saban or Bill Belichick as head coaches.​
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Obviously, but Chip Kelly isn't at that level yet, so there is a sliver of possibility for Chip Kelly over those 2 lol
 
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Farsight said:
Obviously, but Chip Kelly isn't at that level yet, so there is a sliver of possibility for Chip Kelly over those 2 lol
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Haha!!!!!

Come on. There's no chance anyone worth anything would come here. We could have hired that dirtbag Petrino but he would be coaching Louisville again today regardless once the job came open
 
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Aces Fan said:
I am sure Barnhart would find a reason to not look at him. We need to remember it's best to lose the right way.
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Exactly. Hiring a good coach isn't a Mitch Barnhart thing to do it's more a Tom Jurich thing to do. I'm sure we'll probably end up with the special teams coach at Dayton or somewhere because Mitch really likes him.
 
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In the 70's under Fran Curci and in the 80's under Jerry Claiborne, UK was at least competitive in the SEC. The reason was mainly because they always played tough defense under those two coaches. Since Claiborne was forced out it seems as though UK has had a fixation with high powered offenses at the expense of defense. Yes, they've been exciting to watch and scored a lot of points but there have been plenty of occasions when they've played no defense at all.

My point is that until UK hires a coach who can teach them how to tackle on defense, they will continue to be what they are now---a team that can occasionally put a lot of points on the board but always gives up a bunch as well. What's the use of scoring 35 points in a game if you give up 50? I know Stoops was a defensive coach when hired but he's fallen into the same trap at UK--explosive offense at the expense of everything else. Call it the Hal Mumme Syndrome if you will.

So, to answer the question of the original poster, I would vote thumbs down on Chip Kelly. All he did at Oregon was inherit the keys to the mansion that Mike Bellotti had built. If he came to Lexington he'd just give you more of the same.
 
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JMO but UK has the same problem with getting a great football coach that they had when Bear Bryant left. Football will always be a step-child to basketball. It's really no ones fault, just a fact.Tennessee has the same issue, just reversed.
 
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Flashman said:
In the 70's under Fran Curci and in the 80's under Jerry Claiborne, UK was at least competitive in the SEC. The reason was mainly because they always played tough defense under those two coaches. Since Claiborne was forced out it seems as though UK has had a fixation with high powered offenses at the expense of defense. Yes, they've been exciting to watch and scored a lot of points but there have been plenty of occasions when they've played no defense at all.

My point is that until UK hires a coach who can teach them how to tackle on defense, they will continue to be what they are now---a team that can occasionally put a lot of points on the board but always gives up a bunch as well. What's the use of scoring 35 points in a game if you give up 50? I know Stoops was a defensive coach when hired but he's fallen into the same trap at UK--explosive offense at the expense of everything else. Call it the Hal Mumme Syndrome if you will.

So, to answer the question of the original poster, I would vote thumbs down on Chip Kelly. All he did at Oregon was inherit the keys to the mansion that Mike Bellotti had built. If he came to Lexington he'd just give you more of the same.
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Wow. Quite a first post. Not sure there's a single thing in here that's right. The only time we've been fixated on high powered offense were during the 4 years of Mumme in which case we beat Bama once, and LSU twice and went to 2 bowl games over those 2 years. Then again from '06 to '09 where we went to 4 straight bowls. I'll take that any day of the week. Not sure how anyone thinks that those other years were high power offense years.

And not hiring Chip Kelly because he did nothing at Oregon? I'll admit it's highly unlikely that we hire Kelly but that's because it's his choice not to. If we actually have a legit shot at him and don't that would be the stupidest thing Barnhart has done since not hiring Calipari and instead going after Billy G.
 
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Anyone who thinks there is a remote chance Chip Kelly would spend a millisecond considering coming to UK to coach FB has lost their minds.
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There is an extreme sense of delusion on this board at times. Whether it's an unrealistic expectation on a season record, the current state/talent of the team or knowing good coaches are out of our league, they never disappoint.
 
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Hey, I just posted the in House of Blue, but I will give it to you....... FOR FREE.
Enjoy.... I'm out.

Yep, 60 years of losing is one man's fault. What is this next AD Superman going to do, convince a big time winning coach to commit career suicide?

Where in the hell has a proven winner taken over a program like us and won? Oh yeah, Rich Brooks.

Please give me your other shining examples of Saban going to Purdue or Indiana or STFU.

(Yeah, what I thought, u got nothing but b***hin' and stupid, unrealistic fantasies)

No, the next "One Man Who Will Save Us All" AD will have to do the same thing as this one, and the others before have, which is make the best choice you think you can and hope for lightning in a bottle......... that's all that can be done. I'm so tired of you Johnny One Notes, "FAAARRRRE this guy" with alleged simplistic, solutions.
I will shoot myself in the head and go to the next UK game just to spite you.

Oh yeah, I forgot, Spurrier has bought a horse farm and Gruden is just waiting for the UK job to open, it's his dream job and the ever popular "If You Throw Enough Money at Him, He Will Come" fantasy bullsheet.

Go snuggle up with your 21 year old Super Model girlfriend while you're at it.

Man, I feel a lot better now. I'm going to give Ashley Judd's voicemail another try.

Go Cats, forget Florida and beat New Mexico State!
 
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Farsight said:
Chip Kelly was Oregon's football coach for 4 solid years. He took Oregon to 4 BCS games and one being a title. That is super impressive. However, he did inherit a fantastic team, with his players as he was the offensive coordinator prior. Chip Kelly's brand of football is very exciting to watch and very fast. If he would take a job in the SEC he would have to recruit fast and big guys if he wanted his spread offense to shine.

Chip Kelly isn't doing so hot at the 49ers nor did he didn't do so well with the Eagles. Sometimes professional sports is a different breed of sport than college. Just like Slick Rick and Coach Cal are better suited for the college level. I also believe Chip Kelly is suited for the college level.

So my question to you guys, if Chip Kelly was interested in coming back to the college level and would be open to interview for Kentucky football, would you hire him? Consider him on the short list if Stoops has an awful year?
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By 1pm. Sign him up
 
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I love how the OP asks as if WE "would take" Kelly, as if we're the ones with the choice there.

Sorry, fella, but the problem with your proposal is entirely the opposite. Kelly is the one who would never take a notorious graveyard job like UK football. If he ever does come back to college football it'll be for a far better job than this.
 
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Kelly would be to good to pee in the toilet at commonwealth. Give me a d2 power house coach or a coach with baggage.
 
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In a flipping heartbeat...but he isn't leaving the 49ers for Lexington. Even if he returned to college he would go somewhere with a lot more prestige
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A guy with his pedigree comes back to college to coach Bama, Michigan or OSU-not UK.
 
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Kelly is hardly "not doing so hot" with the 49ers. He has a record of 0-0. They will be bad this year, under Kelly or anyone else, and the management had to have been well aware of that when Kelly was hired. So Kelly will get a minimum of 2 years there, probably more. And he isn't coming here if he gets fired tomorrow, anyway.
 
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I'm really beginning to wonder if it matters who the coach is here, John Ray was an assistant coach and defensive coordinator on Notre Dames national championship team and he left and became Kentucky's coach and he was arguably the worst coach in Kentucky's history. I'm not really sure who could do it or if it could be done. Curci won for several years but we were also put on probation. Every 7 or 8 years we can put together those kinds of seasons, but in this league I'm not sure it can be done here. We have had coaches who have been tremendously successful at other schools, Curry, Ray, Claiborne and Brooks and a few surprises like Mumme and Curci, but none can sustain much more than mediocre seasons. We have great facilities and fan support and more good recruiting classes the last 4 years than ever and the things that have always hurt us still are. I guess the Bear Bryant curse is real, hopefully our current coaches can turn it around. I feel like everything is good enough except our defensive line and maybe linebackers right now, the way other teams just over power us the second half the last two games is demoralizing.
 
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Farsight said:
Chip Kelly was Oregon's football coach for 4 solid years. He took Oregon to 4 BCS games and one being a title. That is super impressive. However, he did inherit a fantastic team, with his players as he was the offensive coordinator prior. Chip Kelly's brand of football is very exciting to watch and very fast. If he would take a job in the SEC he would have to recruit fast and big guys if he wanted his spread offense to shine.

Chip Kelly isn't doing so hot at the 49ers nor did he didn't do so well with the Eagles. Sometimes professional sports is a different breed of sport than college. Just like Slick Rick and Coach Cal are better suited for the college level. I also believe Chip Kelly is suited for the college level.

So my question to you guys, if Chip Kelly was interested in coming back to the college level and would be open to interview for Kentucky football, would you hire him? Consider him on the short list if Stoops has an awful year?
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Funny stuff.
 
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