07-09-2021, 10:56 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-09-2021, 11:02 AM by BostonCard.)
(07-09-2021, 10:05 AM)JeffInCorvallis Wrote: People really rank Clay Helton, Lane Kiffin, and Mike Leach ahead of Chip Kelley? Wow.
I guess it depends on whether you are looking at career or recently. Chip Kelly at UCLA: 2018: 3-9 (3-6), 2019: 4-8 (4-5), 2020: 3-4 (3-4)
In three seasons, he has not had a winning season overall or in conference, and has finished 5th, 3rd, and 5th out 6 teams in the south. His recruiting classes have ranked 6th (2019), 6th (2020), and 4th (2021) in the conference.
He's fallen hard, but at 50th he seems appropriately rated to me.
On the other guys, I had the three guys you mentioned as "sell". Leach was a great coach for WSU, but I don't think he will do well in SEC. Too soon to tell how Lane Kiffin will do at Ole Miss, but I don't view him as a "just outside the top-25" kind of coach. USC will probably do ok because it is USC, not because Helton is their coach. The Trojans will contend for the Pac-12 south and might even win the conference, but that is expected at USC and isn't because Helton is a top-25 coach. But, especially if ASU gets hit for recruiting violations, Chip Kelly continues to struggle at UCLA, and no one else emerges in the South, I pencil in USC as the most likely team to emerge in the Pac-12 south in the next few years. And, to his credit, he did recruit Slovis who at the time was a 3* recruit.
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(07-09-2021, 10:50 AM)Giants Wrote: Too low - Brennan, Kelly, Lake.
Chip or Brian?
I can see Chip Kelly moving up as he gets his system in place, but in three years at UCLA he has not impressed with either recruiting or results.
As I mentioned, Brian Kelly is already ranked #4, and two of the guys ahead of him have won multiple national titles, and the third has gone to four CFB playoffs in his four years at Oklahoma. To say Brian Kelly is ranked too low, you would have to believe that UDFG will be winning a national title in the next couple years.
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