Chip Kelly - Head Coach, Philadelphia Eagles

[Sgt PSN]

What about moderately successful?  Maybe someone who had a few winning seasons and a playoff appearance or two?

yeah thats what im saying....i dont know of any even remotely successful ones....to be fair there isnt a huge sample to pull from...a few dozen maybe....theres a couple that i can think of like haarbaugh and bobby ross who were in the nfl for a cup of coffee and ha success....but no nfl experience whatsoever i think jj is it....altho ill admit im going on memory....there could be a few from the 80's 70's maybe that im not aware of

Vermeil is the only other one that comes to mind.  He had pretty limited NFL exp, bouncing back and forth between the LA Rams and UCLA for a few years before he came to Philly.   

And yeah, Carroll had a bunch of NFL exp before now.  He was the HC in NE after Parcells and I think he was a DC and position coach for a few teams prior to that. 

[Zanshin]

And HC for the Jets.

[BigEd76]

Chip rearranged the locker room

Instead of having the space organized by positional groups, Chip Kelly has decided to mix things up. A quarterback might find himself next to a safety, a wide receiver alongside a linebacker, and so on.
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[Kelce:] "If you look around the room right now, most of it is veterans next to young guys. So if you look around the room, that looks like what he was trying to do. Last year, I think the team lacked a lot of leadership. So instead of putting guys in positions together, or positions are young and they don't really have a leader yet, all of a sudden, everybody's around older guys who have been doing it for a long time. I'm thinking that's more of the idea that he was looking for."
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The feeling among players seems to be that the locker room switch is just the beginning. Asked to describe what's different under the new regime, tight end Brent Celek said, "Lots of changes. Where do you want to start?"
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[Herremans:] "I like all the ideas they've thrown at us. It sounds like everything that he does has a reason, and that reason is leading to winning and becoming a better team. I don't think it'll be hard for everybody to buy in."

[ice grillin you]

now we know why chipper decided to jet for the nfl in the end

Documents released by the University of Oregon show the school and the NCAA agree "major" violations were committed by the football program, both The Oregonian and Portland, Ore., television station KATU reported Monday.

The documents focus heavily on Will Lyles, who ran a recruiting and scouting service and has been widely reported to be at the center of the investigation, according to the reports. Most of the alleged violations cited occurred during the tenure of former Ducks coach Chip Kelly, who left Oregon in January to become the coach of the Philadelphia Eagles.

Both The Oregonian and KATU received the documents after filing a public records request.

"There were underlying major violations coupled with failure to monitor violations involving the head coach (2009 through 2011) and the athletics department (2008-2011)," NCAA enforcement staff wrote in the report, according to KATU.

However, the documents also state NCAA enforcement staff said they had "no finding of lack of institutional control and no finding of unethical conduct," key points when it comes time for punishment to be considered, KATU reported. Oregon is expected to appear before the NCAA's committee on infractions sometime this year.

The university gave a statement to The Oregonian on Monday night following the documents' release that read: "The review is ongoing until the NCAA Committee on Infractions issues its final report. The integrity of the process and our continued full cooperation with the NCAA prohibits us from publicly discussing the specifics of this matter."

[rjs246]

I was just coming to post that. He pulled a Carroll.

[ice grillin you]

i think the one key difference is that carroll definitely wanted to get to the nfl again...whereas chipper is still in eugene if shtein didnt go bad

[rjs246]

Well obviously.

[Sgt PSN]

Only helps reaffirm my immediate dislike of him and the hire. 

[MDS]

yup...throw him in jail for violating the sacred honor of the ncaa rules

maybe give him the chair in fact. how dare he not worship the gold standard of "amateur" athletics?

[Eagles_Legendz]

lol @ thinking Chip bolted to the NFL just because of that.  Oregon is hardly getting the hammer.  You're looking at probation and maybe 1-2 scholarships wiped out a year which is basically nothing.

[Rome]

Ha.  So true.

The NCAA can suck it.

[hbionic]

Can we all keep focus on the fact that Chip Kelly IS NOT Andy Reid, and this season, regardless of the outcome, is already a win?

[Rome]

How can anyone here accept him when IGY hates him?!?

[ice grillin you]

i dont hate him at all

[hbionic]

You don't hate him, but his name isn't Buddy Ryan either.

(Guys, did I say that right?)