Offer Chip Kelly the OC job

[HailtoPitt]

Before some of you feel the need to attack, yes I understand that the OC job at Pitt is a big step down, but getting fired this late in the game leaves the Pitt OC job as a one of the better positions left open. He will still get paid by Philly and SF so he may not command and outrageous salary.

Now, launch your bombs at me.

 

[Las Panteras]

My only bomb I would lob is we don't have the personnel to run a chip kelly offense.

 

[vegasgreed]

Would you like Foge Fazio as the new DC?

 

[Jtommyj]

Would you like Foge Fazio as the new DC?

Now THAT would be some trick.

 

[Pitt-Chains]

Before some of you feel the need to attack, yes I understand that the OC job at Pitt is a big step down, but getting fired this late in the game leaves the Pitt OC job as a one of the better positions left open. He will still get paid by Philly and SF so he may not command and outrageous salary.

Now, launch your bombs at me.

No bombs.. I like it.
He's got money..

 

[MajorMajors]

Just don't hire that guy from Ohio State...

Go Pitt.

 

[Las Panteras]

Bringing in Chip Kelly almost guarantees we will be looking for yet another OC for 2018.

 

[9nationalchampionships]

Chip Kelly would be a great choice for us but he is now an NFL guy and at worst will be an OC in the NFL if not a HC next season

 

[vegasgreed]

Read my lips, Kelly coming here as OC is NOT going to happen.

 

[Piranha]

Outside possibility - Brian Kelly goes to the pros and Chip takes over at ND.

 

[Swervin27]

A home run hire like Canada will make you looking for a new OC a year later. It's not necessarily a bad thing. If you want a guy that will be around 3-4 years, you are going to have to find an inexperienced younger guy. Not sure narduzzi wants that, to babysit the OC for a year or two.

 

[raleighpanther]

To me, its not about "the guy". And as many here have said, a successful guy may be gone again in a year, and we do this all over again.
Its about "the system". This year, we had a very successful system, one that was well suited to our players' strengths. I'd like to see that system continued regardless of who the guy is. I don't want our players to have to learn a new offensive scheme in the spring, having to learn the new guy's terminology, etc, and possibly trying to make a system work that they're not really built for.
Continuity is important, and we can have it if the new OC is a flexible guy who doesn't insist on imposing 'his system.'
Tim Salem is the obvious choice to accomplish this. He's been an OC before, so he has experience. I don't know what PN thinks of him as a leader at the OC level or his play calling ability, but if likes him in these regards and hires him, I'll be very happy.
Some of you will of course, criticize the hire as a cheap in-house option, and be disappointed that we didn't get a big name guy...for one year. I won't.

 

[Panther Parrothead]

In theory, it would be a brilliant hire. In reality, it would be as likely as getting President Obama to be the mayor of Aliquippa.

 

[MajorMajors]

To me, its not about "the guy". And as many here have said, a successful guy may be gone again in a year, and we do this all over again.
Its about "the system". This year, we had a very successful system, one that was well suited to our players' strengths. I'd like to see that system continued regardless of who the guy is. I don't want our players to have to learn a new offensive scheme in the spring, having to learn the new guy's terminology, etc, and possibly trying to make a system work that they're not really built for.
Continuity is important, and we can have it if the new OC is a flexible guy who doesn't insist on imposing 'his system.'
Tim Salem is the obvious choice to accomplish this. He's been an OC before, so he has experience. I don't know what PN thinks of him as a leader at the OC level or his play calling ability, but if likes him in these regards and hires him, I'll be very happy.
Some of you will of course, criticize the hire as a cheap in-house option, and be disappointed that we didn't get a big name guy...for one year. I won't.

I'm in that latter group. Just because TS saw Canada do it does NOT mean that TS can step in and do it. Knowing it is one thing; teaching it, getting the bugs out, making the calls -- is another skill and another matter. One that TS hasn't demonstrated...

Go Pitt

 

[PittPanther44]

He'll be a college HC. He will never see the NFL again because his style doesn't lend itself to week after week of close competition or when the other team has more talent.

Now in college where you can exploit talent differential week after week and then win that one big game because the other team isn't used it? Sure.

But not as an OC. I can see him winding up at a top non-P5 school. Something like a Houston if that would have still been open

 

[Panther Parrothead]

He'll be a college HC. He will never see the NFL again because his style doesn't lend itself to week after week of close competition or when the other team has more talent.

Now in college where you can exploit talent differential week after week and then win that one big game because the other team isn't used it? Sure.

But not as an OC. I can see him winding up at a top non-P5 school. Something like a Houston if that would have still been open

If the Nits could, they'd offer Chip Kelly the head coaching position right now. But ironically, the success that Franklin had would never permit it.

 

[raleighpanther]

Salem has been an OC, so he has experience doing all of that. How good he is at doing it is something PN will evaluate, and he'll make his decision. If he doesn't think he's up to it, he won't hire him. If he does, he may. I'll go with his call either way. What I'm saying is that I won't be disappointed if he hires him instead of a current big name OC.

 

[28Welsford]

My only bomb I would lob is we don't have the personnel to run a chip kelly offense.

Well we know not having the players to run a system isn't a concern to Narduzzi...so let's hire him.

 

[BuffetParrothead]

Read my lips, Kelly coming here as OC is NOT going to happen.

The odds of Chip Kelly becoming OC are the same as Sean Miller becoming HC of the PITT basketball program!

 

[vegasgreed]

The odds of chip Kelly becoming the OC are the same as Sean Miller fan the poster becoming HC of the Pitt basketball team.

 

[wbrpanther]

Before some of you feel the need to attack, yes I understand that the OC job at Pitt is a big step down, but getting fired this late in the game leaves the Pitt OC job as a one of the better positions left open. He will still get paid by Philly and SF so he may not command and outrageous salary.

Now, launch your bombs at me.

No thanks.

 

[King Of All Message Boards]

I'm gonna log in to Twitter and offer Charlotte McKinney a chance to go on a date with me.

 

[oldpantherfan]

What a joke .
How about his ego ?

 

[Panther Parrothead]

The odds of chip Kelly becoming the OC are the same as Sean Miller fan the poster becoming HC of the Pitt basketball team.

So then, you're saying that there's a chance?

 

[Malachi Constant]

Outside possibility - Brian Kelly goes to the pros and Chip takes over at ND.

I can see Kelly at ND. I can't see the NFL offering the head coaching gig to a 4-8 coach.

 

[Piranha]

If McElwain doesn't pick it up at Florida, then Florida would be a good spot for Chip. I could see Chip sit out of coaching for a year or so, and then head to the Gators.

 

[luccadog]

chan gailey

 

[Nittany1997]

Norm Chow.

 

[Pitt1992]

The CO OC for USC would be worth a look

 

[PhPanther1]

Hire Mike Munchak!