umm….

the short answer would be yes, i am worring (as well as worrying) about CK leaving.

FYI there’s already a pretty good Chip Kelly discussion here

is just awful. I would hope he would want to stay here and work with the guys we have coming back to make a run next year. I think that Oregon can win a national title within the next 5 years, pieces just have to fall in to place rather than everything shatter the way it did last year.

He has been offered the SDSU job. I don’t he takes that since it looks like Syracus is going to offer him in the next week.

HA. Joke.

But seriously, he is going to get big offers.

If I were CK, I would wait until a real job opens up. I wouldn’t go after ’Cuse or UW— you are basically starting from scratch and by the time you get that program up and running he probably could have been HC at Oregon with a lot more money.

I honestly thought Clemson was a good fit for him, and was surprised he didn’t get looked at. Granted, he doesn’t have a ton of recruiting ties to the south, but those aren’t hard to come by. Just say “hey, you see how many yards I put up against the 13th best defense in the country?” Kids will come running. He’d be coaching in a BCS conference, a very winnable BCS conference, with a school that is #1 in a huge football state.

Schools I would keep my eye on if I were Oregon fans:
Auburn: solid fan base, huge football state, and rumors are Tuberville is on his way out, whether on his own terms or the schools’
LSU: really think LSU fans are going to let Les Miles have another season like he did this year? Look at how they treated a coach that won them a Nat’l Championship (Saban)
Cal: if Tedford up and decided that he has done all that he could at Cal and leaves, Chip could see this as a prime time program

Like I said, if I were Chip, I’d wait until I got an offer from an established program before leaving UO, just my opinion

I just don’t see anything other than leverage as the reason for CK taking this interview. The Big East is a joke Syracuse is not the program that’s going to revive it.

Someone back me up here but isn’t there a BCS rule stating that if you’re conference champion (or highest ranked team) is out of the top-14 of the final BCS standings than you lose your status as a BCS conference? If Hawaii beats Cincinnati then we’ll be in year 1 of that trend.

CK is probably about a year out from getting real big time offers and with a good group of returners coming back it’s likely that even with a 9-4 season next year he would be in a position to grab a head coaching job with a well established program.

CK’s wife/girlfriend also works for Nike so there’s incentive to stay in the state provided a coach-in-waiting title is discussed and the money is right.