Chip Kelly to the Eagles?

[rserina]

I don't know know why Kelly would live. USC is on life support, Stanford is impossible to get into for most kids, there is no other recruiting competition for two time zones, and he has a guy named Phil Nike pumping more cash into the program than Mike Price into a prostitution ring.

Yet he goes to a rough city with a rough fan base in a league where he has no experience to run a system that has yet to work at the NFL level without a future Hall of Fame quarterback? I mean, I know the guy is from the northeast and everything, but does he really want to be close to home that badly?

[demosthenes]

It's all about his personality. He is supremely confident and wants to test his abilities against the best. Moreover, the guy is like Spurrier in that he doesn't like having to fawn over/court/flatter recruits.

[geauxgator1]

Originally Posted by rserina

I don't know know why Kelly would live. USC is on life support, Stanford is impossible to get into for most kids, there is no other recruiting competition for two time zones, and he has a guy named Phil Nike pumping more cash into the program than Mike Price into a prostitution ring.

Yet he goes to a rough city with a rough fan base in a league where he has no experience to run a system that has yet to work at the NFL level without a future Hall of Fame quarterback? I mean, I know the guy is from the northeast and everything, but does he really want to be close to home that badly?

$$$'s

[demosthenes]

Originally Posted by geauxgator1

$$$'s

Is that why he turned down more money from the Bucs last year than he was making at Oregon? Is that why he didn't parlay his NFL flirtation into a raise with Oregon; instead he only sought raises for his assistants? The guy was already making four million in total salary.

That being said, of course money factors into it. An extra million or two per year will make a difference. Based on his actions, however, money clearly is not the main motivating factor driving Kelly.

[CAGator93]

He's taking the Pete Carroll escape pod to the NFL

[geauxgator1]

Originally Posted by demosthenes

Is that why he turned down more money from the Bucs last year than he was making at Oregon? Is that why he didn't parlay his NFL flirtation into a raise with Oregon; instead he only sought raises for his assistants? The guy was already making four million in total salary.

That being said, of course money factors into it. An extra million or two per year will make a difference. Based on his actions, however, money clearly is not the main motivating factor driving Kelly.

I don't doubt he has some issues with the NCAA, but at some point the contracts that the NFL teams hand out can sway almost anyone.

[geauxgator1]

Originally Posted by CAGator93

He's taking the Pete Carroll escape pod to the NFL

Probably some of that too.. it's a good problem for him, I think, as it was for Carroll.
maybe he has to leave the Ducks, but now he's an Eagle.