OK. Leprechauns. Midgets. Wizards. Whatever those web-toed dudes were in Lord of the Rings?
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I suspect those analogies happen a lot because we recognize in real life the bad guys usually win.
The empire wins, the death star fires.
The empire wins, the death star fires.
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Todd Blackledge reacts to ‘shockwaves’ sent by Chip Kelly at Ohio State
Todd Blackledge reacted to the "shockwave" Chip Kelly sent through college football by leaving UCLA to become Ohio State's OC.
Todd Blackledge reacts to ‘shockwaves’ sent by Chip Kelly at Ohio State
Usually, when a head coach takes an offensive coordinator job, it means they were fired. Chip Kelly is different, though, voluntarily leaving UCLA to work under Ryan Day at Ohio State. A move we have not seen in college football, especially between two programs set to be in the same conference this season.CBS’ Todd Blackledge believes the move from Kelly sent “shockwaves” throughout the sport. Because in today’s world, certain financial commitments are required to have a good football program. Kelly openly leaving UCLA may have called the Bruins administration out a bit, saying they were not ready to compete in the Big Ten.
“Him leaving UCLA, while probably not a shock, it still is something that, to me, sends shockwaves through college football,” Blackledge said. “He’s a head coach at UCLA. UCLA is going into the Big Ten. Part of that to me is him saying ‘People here are not ready to play or pay to be a big-time football program the way we need to be going into this league.’
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“He’s been really neat because the offense hasn’t changed,” tight ends coach Keenan Bailey said. “This has been Chip Kelly’s offense and Ryan Day’s offense, it’s the same offense. It’s kind of neat going back to the roots and the origin, maybe understanding a new twist or why we called it how we did. And it’s been great for the tight ends, I’ll leave it at that. Not to get too much into scheme but we’ve definitely benefitted. And me personally, learning every day.”
While Kelly works to take charge of the offense and allow Day to step back into more of a CEO role, the Buckeyes’ players and coaches are building their relationships with the former UCLA head coach and learning the finer points of what he brings to the table.
“It’s been awesome,” transfer center Seth McLaughlin said. “He’s coached a lot of good guys and you can really tell the knowledge (he has) and he has a ton of excitement to coach us, which is awesome.”
Outside Day, who was mentored by Kelly as both a player and coach, no Ohio State staffer or player is more familiar with the Buckeyes’ new offensive coordinator than offensive line coach Justin Frye.
Kelly hired Frye as his OL coach when he first landed the UCLA job in 2018, then promoted him to offensive coordinator a year later. He spent four total seasons under Kelly before leaving for Ohio State in 2022.
Frye said he would have “laughed” if he was told after his move from Los Angeles to Columbus that Kelly would follow him two years later, but added that “it’s college football.”
“He just added to another piece of just good people here,” Frye said. “You’re coming to work here with guys every day, the kids we talk about a ton, but then for us as coaches as a staff. So adding just another good dude that’s in the room.”
Devin Brown had a preexisting relationship with Kelly from his time at UCLA, being recruited by the then-head coach out of high school before he ultimately signed with Ohio State, and he’s enjoyed having Kelly as his offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach now.
“He’s very laid back and wanting us to learn,” Brown said. “He’s very teacher-oriented. He wants us to learn and process everything without giving us the information. So it’s been good.”
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Kelly and Walton are both on escalating three-year contracts that will pay them more in each subsequent season. Kelly is set to make $2.1 million in 2025 and $2.2 million in 2026, while Walton will make $1.5 million in 2025 and $1.6 million in 2026.
Kelly will make $200,000 more each year than Bill O’Brien was set to make as offensive coordinator. O’Brien signed a contract that would have paid him $1.8 million this year, $1.9 million next year and $2 million in 2026 before he left to become the head coach at Boston College.
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Thought I had entered the Twilight Zone. Looked for Dave Francis, Katterhenrich, in the middle, wished the first two of the tandem knocked the end and LB out of the way, and the ball carrier went for 20. Love that Chip has that kind of history, and isn't unwilling to trot it out. Did notice our WRs were getting open against the vaunted "BIA" Dbs, so cannot wait for tOSU to tee it up. Bring on the season! After we get the OL straightened out.
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How Chip Kelly can enhance his legacy with the Ohio State football program
Chip Kelly is one of the most innovative offensive minds in college football. He can enhance his legacy further with the Ohio State football program.
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How Chip Kelly can enhance his legacy with the Ohio State football program
Chip Kelly is one of the most innovative offensive minds in college football. He can enhance his legacy further with the Ohio State football program.
Chip Kelly has done a lot in college football already. He's one of the most innovative offensive minds in college football history. Now, he's the offensive coordinator for the Ohio State football program. He is looking to lead another program to the pinnacle of the sport.
While he was the head coach at Oregon, he made a National Championship Game. While he ended up losing to Cam Newton and Auburn, he learned a lot from that experience. He took the Ducks to a place that they hadn't been in a long time as a program.
Kelly just wants to coach football at this point. He doesn't want to deal with all of the crap that comes with being a head coach. A lot of being a head coach in college football now has to deal with NIL collectives and paying players. Going to booster meetings, buttering up alumni, and other admin stuff is not what he considers fun.
Now that Kelly is with the Ohio State football program, he has a shot to further enhance his legacy. If he can lead the Buckeyes to a national championship this season, he will finally get his ring. He also has the talent to do so on his roster. The Buckeyes should be really good.
Ohio State just has a question up front on the offensive line. It was clearly the worst unit on the team last season. Will Howard should be an upgrade at quarterback. If Kelly can win a national title with Howard leading the way, his legacy will receive a massive jump.
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Just sayin': I can't wait to see how the offense plays out this season under Kelly. The defense should be on be of the best (if not the best) in the country. Iowa has proven a great defense isn't enough to win championships. This team will go as far as the offense can take them.
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UCLA Players Describe Chip Kelly As a “Very, Very Smart Offensive Mind” Who “Knows Exactly What He’s Talking About”
Chip Kelly drew praise at Big Ten Media Days from his former UCLA players, who described him as a “very, very smart offensive mind” who “knows exactly what he's talking about.”
UCLA Players Describe Chip Kelly As a “Very, Very Smart Offensive Mind” Who “Knows Exactly What He’s Talking About”
Although Chip Kelly’s decision to leave UCLA in February was unconventional in terms of both timing and destination, the Bruins players who attended Big Ten Media Days on Wednesday expressed no hard feelings toward their former head coach.
On the contrary, they expressed happiness and excitement for their former coach that he got the opportunity to become the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Ohio State, a move he said he made because he wanted to get back to focusing on the football part of coaching rather than all the other demands that come with being a head coach.
“I think we're just happy for him,” UCLA defensive tackle Jay Toia said. “Happy that he's in a situation where he can be offensive coordinator at The Ohio State. Ohio State's a really big program historically. So we're just all happy for him and he did what he thought was best for him and his family.”
New UCLA coach DeShaun Foster, who worked alongside Kelly for the past six years as UCLA’s running backs coach, said he’s eager to see what Kelly can do with the offensive talent he’ll have in Columbus.
“They’re getting a good coach. Somebody that's well-versed in football. Really knows a lot of ball. Great play caller. Going to run the rock,” Foster said. “So I'm excited to see what Coach is going to do. He's somebody, when he has a lot of talent, things go really well fast. So I'm excited to see what he's going to do.”
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“He's a very, very smart offensive mind, and he taught me a lot of things that I'm going to use in my future,” Garbers said. “He's been nothing but great.”
Asked what Ohio State’s quarterbacks should know about Kelly, Garbers said “he's going to coach you hard and he's going to be in your corner.”
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“He knows exactly what he's talking about and I think Ohio State's going to be happy to have a guy like that calling the plays for them,” Sturdivant said. “He brings a new mentality to the game and being able to learn from a guy like that that's been to a lot of places and had success has been great.”
Toia says Ohio State is getting a “great coach” with Kelly joining its staff.
“He's a great offensive mind,” Toia said. “I think he changed the game of football when he was at Oregon. And I think that's exactly what Ohio State's getting. Great coach, great person. Happy for him and what he's doing.”
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James Franklin reacts to the 'unusual' situation of Chip Kelly leaving UCLA for Ohio State
James Franklin was surprised Chip Kelly left his head coaching gig at UCLA to go to Ohio State as the offensive coordinator.He wasn’t the only one. Franklin mentioned Tom Allen coming from Indiana to become Penn State’s defensive coordinator after the Hoosiers let him go.
But the Kelly situation was certainly different and perhaps out of left field.
“That was a pretty unusual situation,” Franklin said. “I wouldn’t describe that as similar to the situation with Tom. That was pretty unusual. But I think (it’s) pretty telling about, you know, where college football is at and how the job has changed, and how a lot of those factors can be outside of your control.
“And I don’t know all the details of that and I don’t know all the perspectives on that but that one, a sitting head coach in the conference that leaves to go be a coordinator feeling professionally, that was a better decision and a better job.”
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Kelly hasn’t had this much talent on an offense in quite a bit. Ohio State head coach Ryan Day pointed that out when discussing Kelly’s abilities to draw everything up.
“I think he would tell you he is very excited about what he has in terms of the talent level on the perimeter, up front, the running backs, the quarterback options, the tight ends. So that’s the journey that we’re on. You know, what is it that fits that,” Day said at Big Ten Media Days. “Then it’s my job as the head coach to make sure it fits complementary football across the board and that the offense is complementing the defense.
“In terms of the second part of your question, what he brings, you know, for me turning it over, I really wanted to have somebody that had head coaching experience. Now, never thought that you would have somebody that was a head coach the way he has been in college and in the NFL and that background. It allows me a little more of a peace of mind and certainly a lot of trust there.”
Just sayin': Day turning the offense over to Kelly should be a good thing too. Really, this is quite a staff:
| Ryan Day | Head Coach |
| Chip Kelly | Offensive Coordinator / Quarterbacks |
| Jim Knowles | Defensive Coordinator |
| Keenan Bailey | Tight Ends Coach |
| Justin Frye | Run Game Coordinator / Offensive Line Coach |
| Matt Guerrieri | Safeties Coach |
| Brian Hartline | Co-Offensive Coordinator / Wide Receivers Coach |
| Larry Johnson | Associate Head Coach / Defensive Line Coach |
| James Laurinaitis | Linebackers Coach |
| Carlos Locklyn | Running Backs Coach |
| Tim Walton | Assistant Head Coach / Secondary/Cornerbacks Coach |
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Quick Hits: Chip Kelly Says Ohio State Will “Start to Hone In On” a QB Pecking Order Soon, Devin Brown Calls the Competition “No Different Than Last Year”
Chip Kelly talks Ohio State's QB competition, Devin Brown says he's become a “more consistent” passer and Lincoln Kienholz feels “way more comfortable” since the Cotton Bowl.
Quick Hits: Chip Kelly Says Ohio State Will “Start to Hone In On” a QB Pecking Order Soon, Devin Brown Calls the Competition “No Different Than Last Year”
The second Quick Hits of Ohio State's 2024 season has arrived.
After an article that covered comments from Emeka Egbuka, Jack Sawyer and Denzel Burke at Big Ten Media Days, Eleven Warriors' fast-paced bullet-point recaps of Ohio State's coach and player availabilities makes its preseason camp debut with offensive coordinator Chip Kelly and the Buckeyes' quarterbacks, who met with the media after OSU’s fifth practice of camp on Tuesday.
Among the topics discussed on the Woody Hayes Athletic Center indoor practice field, Kelly said Ohio State will "start to hone in" on a quarterback pecking order soon, Will Howard discussed how he would lead Ohio State's offense this fall, Devin Brown and Lincoln Kienholz talked about their growth this offseason and freshmen Julian Sayin and Air Noland described how they've settled in after seven months on campus.
- Kelly said there isn’t a pecking order at quarterback yet but that Ohio State will likely “start to hone in on that” by the end of this week. He claimed that people should not read into Howard getting most of the first-team reps at Sunday’s practice, as the Buckeyes are still rotating quarterbacks between units.
- Kelly said he thinks Howard knows the offense better now than he did in the spring and is throwing the ball more confidently as a result. “I think Will has done a really good job really working on the playbook in the offseason, studying film so that he understands when there’s a play call made that he knows where to go with the football.”
- Kelly said Sayin “stays in the moment,” which Kelly likes. “If he throws a bad ball, it doesn’t bother him. If he throws a good ball, he doesn’t get overexcited and say, ’Hey, I just arrived.’”
- All five of Ohio State’s scholarship quarterbacks have been timed running faster than 20 miles per hour, Kelly said. Howard has been clocked running faster than 22 miles per hour.
- Kelly said Day showed the Buckeyes the video of Noah Lyles coming from behind to win the Olympic 100-meter dash on Sunday. “Coach Day showed that in a meeting, talked about where he was and how he finished. There was a great lesson there.”
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