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9-3 is an improvement from last year and isnt a bad finish by any means, but it still feels like a “what coulda been” season had ucla won against az and usc. Its better but its also yet another year without a conference title.

Chip has the offense playing at great to elite levels but has to shore up defense or recruit for defense. Its year 5, and hes probably not going anywhere, so not fixing it is inexcusable. Hopefully mcgoverns ok.

Dtr has easily become one of my favorite players over the course if his development.

Win or lose i love this team so much and hope they always succeed. Glad they got the win today.

Go bruins!!!!!!

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I just checked, Karl Dorrell in 5 years went 35-27 and got fired. Yet Chip Kelly can't even break .500 and no one wants him fired as far as I can tell. WTAF? I mean you are who your record says you are. Nothing more or less right?

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Nov 26, 2022·edited Nov 26, 2022

This is a weird season. Chip Kelly has delivered an elite offense and piss-poor defense year after year. As a result, we’re left feeling disappointed even though if we were told before the season started that we would end our season at 9-3 with a chance to go 10-3, we’d be happy with it. And I think the sentiment is a bit different than the Dorrell years - our team has been improving on win totals while in previous years when coaches have been fired, the team has mostly been trending down.

It’s clear Chip isn’t going to be fired this year. If ucla fires their head coach after he matched the most wins ucla has ever had ina season and produced a top 10 offense, then our school will be a joke - no established or up and coming coach will want to take the job, especially with the coming move into the Big 10. But I don’t think Chip should survive into 2024 if he doesn’t hit double digit wins.

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If they hadn't flopped against Arizona and U$C, the Bruins' record could've been 11-1 instead of 9-3. Unfortunately, under Chip Kelly it's the mediocre coaching, lack of recruiting, and consistently porous defense that has produced yet another season of lowered expectations and zero chance for any Pac-12 championship or major bowl game. Not feeling very optimistic about next year, so if he's still coaching the Bruins, sure hope it's his final season...

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Everything's been said about Chip, so I've got to post about the game and that for some of the usual, big coverage mistakes, the D fought (and punched!) hard, and DTR brought them back quickly at 21-10 to make it close at the half. This was great to see, and the kid has earned my respect in the last few years and, I thought I'd never say this, has truly been a warrior this year.

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Oh, and Zach's two-yard fight for the first down after being hit in the backfield should be on the Bruin's running back highlight reel in perpetuity, must watching for all incoming young RB's!

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by the way, really great hire by Nebraska. Big Ten going to be even tougher if that program returns to glory.

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Hate to say it but is all going to come down to NIL deals. If Bruin fans don't reach into the pockets and make a huge collective we won't be able to compete no matter who the coach is. That's modern college football.

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Anyone know what’s in the transfer portal? Thanks to Chip, we literally do not have a QB for next season

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We are joining a conference where a team loses 1 game (OSU) and there are calls to fire the coach. Yet we keep Chip.

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Really really hoping the utes can sweep usc.

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