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Fire Chip Kelly. Dogshit results in year 4.

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Great article. Spot on.

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It is hard to understand about Chip Kelly, because he destroyed UCLA when he was at Oregon. Now that he is at UCLA, he is not destroying the other teams.

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The reason that Kelly did so well at Oregon was because he did not build the program. It was done by the coach that he took over from.

The program was going down and they, the Oregon program was put on probation.

Kelly had to show, I believe to come back to coach on the college level.

I have said this before “Kelly has not built a winning program.

Kelly just needs to go!

I also believe that UCLA needs to bring in a coach who built a program up without the resources that UCLA has.

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I bailed out at halftime, something I almost never do having been a fan since 1985, I’ve always stuck it out and at the Rose Bowl I always stick around to hear the band, win or lose…I never could have imagined that the 1999 Rose Bowl would be the last one I see. I hope not. Anyway if I had to guess I’d guess it’ll be one more year of Kelly, clearly the big money is not interested in bailing out the program. I suppose we should beat CO and CAL and maybe $C but who knows. This one hurt me bad. My niece just graduated from Clemson, I told her how rare something like that is, to have it happen when you’re a student. She gets it. I’d like to see us at least make the playoff in my lifetime…

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Love the players, they play their hearts out but were really let down by the coaches for this game.

Finishing in a bowl game is progress from the last three years, but hurts a lot more when you lose winnable games against freson state and oregon.

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I spent most of the first half yelling "Sieve" at the TV

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My oldest son went to Cal some years ago and I recall having similar feelings about Coach Tedford at that time. He had a few good years at the start and then things fell apart, with all kinds of discussions about a buy-out, etc. Dave Sandler UCLA '67. I remember Gary Beban, Tommy Prothro, Mike Garrett at USC and Terry Donohue's saving tackle against Michigan in the 1967 Rose Bowl. Later met Gary Beban at basic training at Fort Gordon, GA in 1969. While in the DC Guard, posted in a basement parking garage in Washington DC during one of the Vietnam marches, he and Jerry Smith, tight end for the Deadskins, played pass receiving with tear gas grenades.

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It's crazy that we were never even competitive yesterday. It's not like we were totally outclassed from an athletic/talent standpoint, but it looked like we were going up against a Georgia or Alabama and we were out of the game from the opening drive. Utah is a perennially solid program, but they aren't playing for a playoff spot either. It just shows how big the difference is between the two coaching staffs.

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Sadly this game went as I expected. Utah was ready and exposed the defense badly. I don’t think this was a surprise to people that have been watching UCLA regularly, but maybe news to some casual observers that were distracted by tall the pre snap smokescreen. I thought Utah would pass their way to victory, but when they started running all over us I knew it was going to get really ugly.

The offense was fine, not great, but fine. I like Garbers arm, with some more experience and better protection he could be quite good I think. But the O line was not good. Our RBs, especially Charbonnet, probably made us look a bit better than we are.

But really, yesterday was the same tune we’ve been playing for too long. I would have fired Chip after year 2, when paying the buyout might have made sense. Now, I’m not so sure what will happen. There should be no way Chip gets an extension, but can we find a way to get rid of him this year? I wonder if he’s told that he’s gone in Jan if he’d take a smaller payout, say 5M and go. [I guess Kelly would make 4.6m next year, so the incremental cost to the program is really the cost of the replacement- say 3-3.5M? C’mon donors]. Just let him know he’s not coaching next year and he’s not getting 9M. I think Azz’s contract is up in Jan or Feb and Chip should be told there’s no way he’s coming back. Seeing Kelly’s post game comments about the defense, I have a sense Chip knows that Azz has to go (if only to take the blame that the HC should own up to, and buy one last chance).

One other thing I’m a bit uncertain about - towards the end of the game the announcers were talking about who comes back, and were mentioning DTR. I thought this season was it, but with all the special rules around COVID and eligibility I’m not sure what the deal is. I guess DTR is not getting drafted, so why not return? Or were the announcers just mistaken? I keep thinking that the team is full of seniors, and will have to replace a lot of starters, but now I’m not sure.

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Just read Ben Bolch's column regarding Kelly in the LA Times. Very direct, pulls no punches.

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That defense was disgusting. I was wrong last week saying we should keep chip.

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OT, Aden Bona commits UCLA!

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"Kelly was directly asked how he could continue to justify defensive coordinator Jerry Azzinaro’s role with a unit that has been a sore spot for all of the head coach’s tenure. “I’m just going to talk about tonight,” was Kelly’s response. He said he thought the defense improved last year and played well in some of the games earlier in the season. He again relied on early-season rushing defense stats that are easily dismissed. “Tonight we did not play well in the rush category,” he said."

https://lastwordonsports.com/collegefootball/2021/10/31/40533-ucla-is-eliminated-from-the-conference-race/

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Jay Toia is on video threatening to assault a group of students who apparently joked that they want to USC on Halloween. Doesn’t look like Chip Kelly has taken any disciplinary actions yet.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10017053-ucla-aware-of-video-showing-jay-toia-threatening-students-in-elevator

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Joe I believe the season is already lost. I hope the new AD will have the fortitude to fire Kelly.

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