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https://www.wsj.com/sports/football/chip-kelly-northwestern-c49051c4?st=pzddQM&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

16 hours ago, Santa Rosa Duck said:

This Wall Street Journal article appears to be locked but it is not.

https://www.wsj.com/sports/football/chip-kelly-northwestern-c49051c4?st=pzddQM&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

A great article, and the comments are also fun to read.

That Oregon Chip Kelly era almost seems like yesterday, and then I have to remind myself that it's been 15 years.

I don't care that Chip pretty much sucked as a head coach wherever else he went. All I know is that over those 4 years at Oregon, he flat out made magic happen, and caught lightning in a bottle.

He made and caused changes to the game while winning at about an 88% clip rate, 4 straight BCS games -- winning two, and came within 3 points of winning the National Championship. I became a Duck football fan in the early 70s, and back then, Chip Kelly era stuff was at best a dream.

I'm glad that Chip appears to have found out where his skill set is best utilized. He clearly is a genius offensive coordinator. It's one thing to go to Ohio State and win, it's an entirely different ball of wax to do it at Northwestern.

So, while I'm obviously rooting for our Ducks to crush Northwestern, there's a part of me that's also rooting for Chip Kelly... but, of course, not to win today.