Agreed that Kelly's salary probably didn't break the bank for us, as he has other sources of income than his NU salary. Hopefully he gets to play the role of the innovative OC without much interference from Braun, although I'm sure we'll still continue to hear the term "complementary football" often.
I’m confused about cap restrictions and how it is determined and who and how it is enforced. It seems that there is no limit to what players and coaches can be paid under this current environment and lawsuits would be filed if efforts to restrict or enforce limits imposed. The NCAA doesn’t seem to be the vehicle enforcing any rules these days.
A theory on that. There has been rumors on the Ohio State message boards that Day was pursuing Kelly but Kelly wanted more control of the offense than Day wanted to give him. Kelly wasn’t attracted by salary as he is being paid well by the Raiders. So Kelly was looking for a better deal (not in money but in control).
Not recruits. Kelly isn’t recruiting, and he doesn’t stick around anywhere long enough to care about who’s recruited bc he’s gone before they will matter. (Preps, not transfers. Obviously he cares very much about instant starters.) That was the gripe at Ohio State; he didn’t want to recruit at all. He won’t recruit, he won’t fundraise, he won’t build a relationship with his players.
There is no cap because there is no enforcement. Every other school is conducting itself accordingly. We need to as well. I think we have to, right? You don’t bring in a splash OC so that he can coach a bunch of below-average players.
Really think this is as simple as adapt or die. He couldn’t keep Lujan another year. Next year the schedule is brutal. If they go 3-9 Braun isn’t getting a 5th year. But with better offense, you’re not going 3-9.
I didn’t say he would recruit but I believe he will be heavily involved in the type of personnel he needs and will therefore have a lot to say about who we are recruiting.
There are no meaningful cap restrictions and they are not at all enforced. Simple!
Scouting recruits and deciding who is a take and shaking hands on the visits and taking key phone calls and making decisions about what player at what position needs extra investment or not is very different from hitting the road 100 days a year to sit in the stands at high school football games and eat cake in living rooms and DM every kid on your list like four damn times a week and take 7 extra meetings per year with guys already on the roster to make sure they don’t transfer.
Nobody knows, but his track record would suggest he likely jumps if successful. He’s a great coach, and likely wants to chase rings if he can. Having total control will be fun for him, but he may get horny for NFL talent like he had at OSU and Oregon.
Whatever his future desires, he is a Wildcat coach next year. That alone should change the trajectory of the program.
Yes. If he leaves it’s because we had a good year. I’ll take that problem.
I would venture that Braun and Jackson (and Kelly) understand that.
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Don’t overlook the lifestyle appeal of the NU job.
I could see this being a Hank type situation too. NU is a place that will appreciate even an average offense. Braun is a Defense guy and won't even be tempted to micro mange him. He can do the parts of the job he loves the most.
I just looked and he's only 62. I thought he was older. Yeah maybe he sticks around for 4-5 years.
Good. Maybe he can buy Fitzs old house?? Is it up for sale?? Maybe there will be story about it in Sunday Chicago tribune real estate section?I think Kelly’s total comp is actually higher from all sources then
Ha. I suspect Fitz is keeping his Northfield house unless he was planning to downsize anyway becoming an empty nester.
Yeah I hope so. I'm optimistic on this because Kelly's done a lot of moving around and we offer him the absolutely perfect setup: 1) lowest possible expectations that it's hard to believe he can't field better offenses than the last 5 years of Bajakian/Lujan, 2) complete control of offense with a deferential young HC looking to learn from him, and 3) as you mentioned lifestyle wise, for a guy of his age and wealth, it's a great place to be.
As long as he can raise us out of the basement of bottom 20-30 offenses in FBS to something closer to the middle in 2-3 years, he'll probably be able to stay here as long as he wants. The job should be low pressure to somebody as experienced and knowledgable about offenses as him.
One of the biggest compliments I saw was on an Ohio State vlog that said that even though Northwestern would not be a threat to Ohio State (from their perspective), the Kelly move with our defense should move us into the top 6 in conference with an outside chance of CFP next year. That was both a testament to how they feel about Chip and how they view our defense. Their assumption is that we will do well at getting necessary offensive players in the portal who will want to play in a Chip Kelly offense. They think our staff can make up for Kelly not visiting recruits personally. Given It was just two vlog guys but it was exciting.
Yeah with Kelly, all we really need him to do is close the deal with important offensive recruits/transfers (i.e. if we go after a top QB in the portal or something).
Most buzzworthy hire we've probably ever had in FB?
