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2017 College Football Thread: Hawaiian QB devastated to find out Jesus was "kinda rooting for Georgia" (2 Viewers)

Doctor Detroit said:
Even as a blind Oregon homer, you have to admit that Chip Kelly is a terrible person and an #######. 

He's gonna run up the score on your boys for as many years as USC can stand him.  gllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
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Oregon homer, yes, blind, no.  I don't believe Chip Kelly is a terrible person.  I will be curious to see how he does at UCLA.  His style of offense is so common now that I don't think he will have the same success.

 
Doctor Detroit said:
Oh wait he went to UCLA?  He does know they have academic standards there right? 
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Great recruiting ground for him.  He needs it because he does not like recruiting very much and rehired many ex Oregon coaches who are older and really slacked on the recruiting trail in the later years.  UCLA boosters are going to hate Chip.

 
Don't Noonan said:
Great recruiting ground for him.  He needs it because he does not like recruiting very much and rehired many ex Oregon coaches who are older and really slacked on the recruiting trail in the later years.  UCLA boosters are going to hate Chip.
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I'm actually a Chip Kelly fan :bag:

I was surprised he failed in the NFL, he's so innovative and smart I thought he could easily adjust.  To me he's much like Barry Switzer, a smart guy with a very particular way of administering that leads to success.  Switzer won a Super Bowl, but I could have coached that team to at least the NFCCG. 

He's gonna have to adjust at UCLA (the USC jab was shtick, I commented on his arrival at UCLA earlier in the thread), you just have a higher academic standard there and the athletes you can get there is limited like it is at Stanford, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Boston College, etc.  That's not disparaging Oregon either, they are like Florida, Ohio State, Oklahoma, or Alabama.  There are standards but they are secondary to athletic success and that is the business of college football. 

UCLA could lower standards but as successful as they have been in general, over the years, it isn't gonna be like that institution is going to relent to the powers of Chip Kelly.  He's gonna have to recruit differently, build differently, execute differently.  I think he can do it and UCLA could be a monster if he can keep innovating, develop new concepts to win football games, and play with a flare that he's known for. 

Since I don't care about the pac12 and don't really dislike UCLA, I hope he does well.  I'd rather he gone to Arizona State where he'd have no restrictions, but I'm glad he didn't land at Texas Tech or Nebraska.  I want him no where near my programs. 

 
Doctor Detroit said:
I'm actually a Chip Kelly fan :bag:

I was surprised he failed in the NFL, he's so innovative and smart I thought he could easily adjust.  To me he's much like Barry Switzer, a smart guy with a very particular way of administering that leads to success.  Switzer won a Super Bowl, but I could have coached that team to at least the NFCCG. 

He's gonna have to adjust at UCLA (the USC jab was shtick, I commented on his arrival at UCLA earlier in the thread), you just have a higher academic standard there and the athletes you can get there is limited like it is at Stanford, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Boston College, etc.  That's not disparaging Oregon either, they are like Florida, Ohio State, Oklahoma, or Alabama.  There are standards but they are secondary to athletic success and that is the business of college football. 

UCLA could lower standards but as successful as they have been in general, over the years, it isn't gonna be like that institution is going to relent to the powers of Chip Kelly.  He's gonna have to recruit differently, build differently, execute differently.  I think he can do it and UCLA could be a monster if he can keep innovating, develop new concepts to win football games, and play with a flare that he's known for. 

Since I don't care about the pac12 and don't really dislike UCLA, I hope he does well.  I'd rather he gone to Arizona State where he'd have no restrictions, but I'm glad he didn't land at Texas Tech or Nebraska.  I want him no where near my programs. 
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I was upset he ended up at UCLA, I was hoping he would take the Florida job.  

 
There was an intriguing German DL who popped up earlier in the season. Was modestly recruited, committed to Georgia Tech, and flipped to Michigan today.

Worst part is that a week ago the GT coaches went allllllll the way out there to do an in-home visit. Hopefully they got some good FF miles and had time for schnitzel. 

 
Dabo Swinney told Jackson Carman during his recruitment that Urban Meyer is on the back end of his career in terms of years left. “It wasn’t a major factor, but it was an underlying one,” Carman said.

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Awesome. :lmao:

 
Doctor Detroit said:
Even as a blind Oregon homer, you have to admit that Chip Kelly is a terrible person and an #######. 

He's gonna run up the score on your boys for as many years as USC can stand him.  gllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
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We'll see on Chip at UCLA.  That's not a football school; never has been, doubt it ever will be.  He's a good coach, but what he did at Oregon was revolutionary from a sports fitness standpoint and a tempo standpoint.  Now all the teams are up-tempo workout nuts.  He also did this when USC was in the doldrums, Washington was winning <3-5 games a season and schools like Washington State were coached by Paul Wullf (yuck).  

He comes across as a redasssss with the media, is very aloof (did I use that word right, @Zow?) but I don't know that I'd call him a terrible person.  He had a nice house in Eugene which like most houses in the PacNW was full of trees and shrubberies and plants and whatnot.  Chip just let that stuff grow out wild; suppose he was too busy for yard work.  His next door neighbor (friend of a friend) was getting upset but was worried that he'd anger Chip if he said anything about the unsightly overgrowth.  Finally, he and some other neighbors wrote him a letter saying he had an obligation to keep his yard kempt.  Next day, huge landscaping crew came out, cleared everything out, made it look good and set up a weekly schedule.  Chip wrote all the neighbors an apology letter.  

Another good Chip story is after his first loss to BSU (first game) he got an angry letter from a fan who went to the game, spent $200 on tickets and was furious at the effort and performance.  Really let off some steam in the letter.  Chip wrote the guy a personal check for $200 and an apology.  Guy framed the check.  

I think he has a dry sense of humor, is awful with the media, won't let people he doesn't  know get close to him, but that's the bulk of many successful head coaches.  Maybe he's a little more humble now?  :shrug:

 
Don't Noonan said:
Any big surprises today?  
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Don't know if it us a surprise but Mullen got the mobile QB he needed at UF with Emory Jones signing. Former Buckeye commit who was supposed to be down to FSU and UF.

ETA -Gator signing class still only ranked 30th but combined with the transfers, it's been a pretty eventful few weeks for Mullen.

 
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JaxBill said:
Don't know if it us a surprise but Mullen got the mobile QB he needed at UF with Emory Jones signing. Former Buckeye commit who was supposed to be down to FSU and UF.

ETA -Gator signing class still only ranked 30th but combined with the transfers, it's been a pretty eventful few weeks for Mullen.
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Love hearing he dissed Slick Willie and went with Florida!

 
whoknew said:
Dabo Swinney told Jackson Carman during his recruitment that Urban Meyer is on the back end of his career in terms of years left. “It wasn’t a major factor, but it was an underlying one,” Carman said.

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Awesome. :lmao:
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Kirby taking the same route with Saban.

 
General Malaise said:
We'll see on Chip at UCLA.  That's not a football school; never has been, doubt it ever will be.  He's a good coach, but what he did at Oregon was revolutionary from a sports fitness standpoint and a tempo standpoint.  Now all the teams are up-tempo workout nuts.  He also did this when USC was in the doldrums, Washington was winning <3-5 games a season and schools like Washington State were coached by Paul Wullf (yuck).  

He comes across as a redasssss with the media, is very aloof (did I use that word right, @Zow?) but I don't know that I'd call him a terrible person.  He had a nice house in Eugene which like most houses in the PacNW was full of trees and shrubberies and plants and whatnot.  Chip just let that stuff grow out wild; suppose he was too busy for yard work.  His next door neighbor (friend of a friend) was getting upset but was worried that he'd anger Chip if he said anything about the unsightly overgrowth.  Finally, he and some other neighbors wrote him a letter saying he had an obligation to keep his yard kempt.  Next day, huge landscaping crew came out, cleared everything out, made it look good and set up a weekly schedule.  Chip wrote all the neighbors an apology letter.  

Another good Chip story is after his first loss to BSU (first game) he got an angry letter from a fan who went to the game, spent $200 on tickets and was furious at the effort and performance.  Really let off some steam in the letter.  Chip wrote the guy a personal check for $200 and an apology.  Guy framed the check.  

I think he has a dry sense of humor, is awful with the media, won't let people he doesn't  know get close to him, but that's the bulk of many successful head coaches.  Maybe he's a little more humble now?  :shrug:
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If he'd come back to Oregon I'd drive to Eugene and do his landscaping for him.

 
Don't Noonan said:
Lots of blowouts so far in these bowl games.  Looking forward to some good games next week. 
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I feel like there’s always a bunch of blowouts. Half the teams lose their coaches and the other half don’t care because they’re in Birmingham playing for nothing. 

 
Tom Servo said:
Yeah, flipping a OSU recruit to FSU is a poor day. :rolleyes:
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I already stated that was big for them to salvage an otherwise horrible day.  CBS Sports put out an article ranking Florida State as the # 1 loser yesterday.  Not sure how to link on my phone.   

 
Don't Noonan said:
I already stated that was big for them to salvage an otherwise horrible day.  CBS Sports put out an article ranking Florida State as the # 1 loser yesterday.  Not sure how to link on my phone.   
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Jimbo stopped recruiting in early-October. That's not an opinion, all the FSU recruits said they stoped hearing from the staff. So to flip a 5-star from a major program, get others to delay their signing day and keep the other recruits already committed was a big day. Whomever wrote that cbs article is an idiot. Willie has been here 2 weeks, he can't undo everything Jimbo didn't do in that period of time. 

Also of our 9 recruits so far, 7 are 4 or 5 stars. We are ranked third for average star ratings on rivals. We'll be fine. 

 
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@MBakerTBTimes: A sentence I never thought I’d write: #FSU has no comment on a Reddit thread questioning its eligibility for the Independence Bowl. 

 
JaxBill said:
@MBakerTBTimes: A sentence I never thought I’d write: #FSU has no comment on a Reddit thread questioning its eligibility for the Independence Bowl. 
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User bakonydraco dug into the NCAA rulebook and found 18.7.2.1.1. In case you don't have that section memorized, it states that a Division I-A team (like FSU) can count a I-AA opponent (like the Seminoles' Nov. 18 foe, Delaware State) as one of the six wins necessary for bowl eligibility if the I-AA team uses at least 90 percent of its permissible scholarships.

Delaware State did not meet that threshold, Reddit reports.

:lmao:  oops

 
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