Just fire him now and get it over with. It's not like he's going to get better. Right now every coach in the history of Ucla has a better win percentage. Every one.
Just fire him now and get it over with. It's not like he's going to get better. Right now every coach in the history of Ucla has a better win percentage. Every one.
I'm certainly not going to defend Chip at this point, but in the interest of accuracy, this just isn't true, and it doesn't matter how you look at iit.
DeWayne Walker and Mike Johnson each served as interim head coach and they were both winless. If you opt for just permanent head coaches, Harry Potter had a .156 winning percentage over 16 games in 1920-22 and his successor James Cline was just a bit better over 15 games from 1923-24 with a .233 win pct.
Let's say you opt for a minimum of 50 games. Then, there's Rick Neuheisel who had a .420 win pct over his 50 games. Rick also covers any timeframe since the 1954 national championship.
If you raise the bar to a 60 game minimum, there's Edwin Horrell whose .443 win pct in 61 games is worse.
Finally, if you set the minimum to 62 games which is how many Chip has coached, there's still William Barnes who coached 68 games from 1958-1964 and had a .492 win pct.
That isn't to say that it's easy to see that he has clearly worn out his welcome. Nobody cares about UCLA football because he doesn't care to do anything to promote the program. That's a big reason that attendance is down so much.
But to say "every coach in the history of UCLA has a better win percentage" is just false.
I agree that not every coach in UCLA history had a better winning percentage, but who cares. This guy has been toxic since day 1. Now we see him taking a 5* blue chip Quarterback and turning him into a below average/no confidence player in only 6 games! All it took was 6 games of this clown's so-called coaching to ruin this player, most likely permanently. Tired of Kelly's losing, tired of seeing a coach give up before halftime, enough is enough. Get a no name with low expectations and let's see what they can do. Maybe a surprise is on the horizon. But Kelly has to go and go asap. Preferably before they lose to Stanford next week (highly likely).
Just fire him now and get it over with. It's not like he's going to get better. Right now every coach in the history of Ucla has a better win percentage. Every one.
I'm certainly not going to defend Chip at this point, but in the interest of accuracy, this just isn't true, and it doesn't matter how you look at iit.
DeWayne Walker and Mike Johnson each served as interim head coach and they were both winless. If you opt for just permanent head coaches, Harry Potter had a .156 winning percentage over 16 games in 1920-22 and his successor James Cline was just a bit better over 15 games from 1923-24 with a .233 win pct.
Let's say you opt for a minimum of 50 games. Then, there's Rick Neuheisel who had a .420 win pct over his 50 games. Rick also covers any timeframe since the 1954 national championship.
If you raise the bar to a 60 game minimum, there's Edwin Horrell whose .443 win pct in 61 games is worse.
Finally, if you set the minimum to 62 games which is how many Chip has coached, there's still William Barnes who coached 68 games from 1958-1964 and had a .492 win pct.
That isn't to say that it's easy to see that he has clearly worn out his welcome. Nobody cares about UCLA football because he doesn't care to do anything to promote the program. That's a big reason that attendance is down so much.
But to say "every coach in the history of UCLA has a better win percentage" is just false.
I agree that not every coach in UCLA history had a better winning percentage, but who cares. This guy has been toxic since day 1. Now we see him taking a 5* blue chip Quarterback and turning him into a below average/no confidence player in only 6 games! All it took was 6 games of this clown's so-called coaching to ruin this player, most likely permanently. Tired of Kelly's losing, tired of seeing a coach give up before halftime, enough is enough. Get a no name with low expectations and let's see what they can do. Maybe a surprise is on the horizon. But Kelly has to go and go asap. Preferably before they lose to Stanford next week (highly likely).