Chip Kelly Says College Football Needs Drastic NIL Rule Changes & Independent Conferences To Survive

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[@scruffd0g193]

He’s so right the conference change should’ve just been Football. The softball, tennis, bowling, golf, etc all the other sports are going to suffer from this.

[@chrismlikewhoa]

He’s so right. What he said about the PAC 12 - what happened, why it happened is simple. One word. Greed. All these conferences need combined. Play regional rivals. Combine the tv contracts and have a larger playoff system.

[@rileyfair5]

You mean like NIL for players? 😂😂

[@EveretteMoon]

Came here to make the same comment regarding greed.

[@kylesherman895]

His suggested fix is to lean into the greed and make college football professional.

[@chrismlikewhoa]

@@kylesherman895 it already is. have you not been paying attention?

[@pound7816]

one word id say is J

[@mck1343]

what a class act. Hats off to you Chip

[@tnekeroom9897]

Naw he sucks

[@Galatian1]

Mad respect for Coach Kelly. He's so right about major changes needing to be made for the good of college football.

[@kylesherman895]

The answer to corporate consolidation isn't more consolidation.

[@thelastjohnwayne]

Mike Leach was saying some of the same things and more 5 years ago. Coach Leach was years ahead of his time.

[@BluebellyGaming]

Good get, Pat. I appreciate that you saw the clip and then just went and got the interview. I had no idea Chip Kelly had these kind of bars. Dang.

[@Daniel-bm4cv]

He’s dead on balls RIGHT!!!

[@joshuakirchner7406]

Right on the nuts!!

[@CharlieBrown379]

BIG BALLS RIGHT

[@pendleton123]

We need more Chip interviews!

[@BusterBronco1987]

This same conversation needs to happen concerning our country before it’s too late

[@RicoSuaveTheGOAT]

Dude never should’ve left Oregon

[@GJI1024]

Agreed. Don’t damage other sports which have nothing to do with football. Most sports lose revenue, they’re going to lose SO MUCH MORE by flying across the country for every cross country meet and diving competition.

[@JW-28]

Chip is the gd GOAT. Out here spitting bars. "Theres no crying on the yacht"

[@tnekeroom9897]

Chip is the worst coach ever

[@debobob-bb6cd]

@@tnekeroom9897 Were you out there applauding the plane and its banner? How'd that Jonathan Smith hire go? smh. Smith is 34-35 in his career. Kelly in last 3 years( took a few to rebuild and that was always an expectation) is 25-13. Rebuilt the year to year makeshift o-line that was such a problem that the last several coaches couldn't figure out in the last 20 years. Had a top 10-15 running game, that is hard-nosed each year, and a top 10-15 total defense as well this year. The guy does great, fun things with the receivers. You didn't think watching Kazmeir Allen and Kyle Phillips was fun as a Bruin fan? How about our defense this year with players like Latu, who won the Pac-12 defensive player of the year, or Jay Toia? Or are you not even a Bruin fan? How about Chip's 3 wins against Southern Cal? You didn't think that win against $C was a blast? Totally outclassed the Riley guy.

[@tnekeroom9897]

You sound stupid if you think Oregon state and ucla are comparable situations. Nobody said, that chip was going to have to rebuild in his first few years, expect uninformed idiots. He inherited Darnay Holmes, jalean Phillips, osa Odighizuwu, Caleb Wilson, Devin Assiasi, and plenty of other talent. A good coach would’ve won 9 games in his first year, not 3. I also love how you mentioned the best usc but failed to mention getting blown cal at home and losing to an asu team without a qb. Being.500 over 6 years at ucla is absolutely unexceptable and it’s going to get much worse this year as we lose our entire defense. Chip has been the worst head coach at in the history of the program and is 7-29 against winning teams. Stop excusing his lousy coaching

[@tnekeroom9897]

Also not only did i applaud the banner but I donated to it too and im very proud of that. Much rather donate to a fire chip and jarmond banner than to spend another dime supporting this dumpster fire

[@billyyank5807]

14:08 😂😂😂😂 chip pulling out some old history man, I love it!

[@JohnnyBGoode-xw9zj]

💯!!! Been screaming something like this FOREVER! Hear me out… Get rid of the conferences. They’re obsolete now. Go to an NFL style format and have 6 regional divisions 1.Pacific Nortth 2.South West 3. Midwest 4. South 5. Northeast 6. Southeast (You would have to do some realignment here to make sense Like the midwest would have some of the Big 12 teams in there like Iowa St, K State , Kansas and Norte Dame. The South would consist of all the texas schools, tulane, as well as lsu and Oklahoma. Basically any southern Divison one school west of the Mississippi. Now you would have around 15-16 teams in each division respectively. You start the season like this year at the end of August, and conclude the season on Thanksgiving week, with all the traditional rivals playing each other Thursday through Saturday. That would keep the Traditions alive! Cam you imagine the ratings and money it would generate? Especially if it meant going to the playoffs??? I would agree of what coach said, playing 6 teams of each region with a rotation every year along with playing 6 games within tour division. Or play whoever you want in each division, while playing 6 in your division. The teams that finish in the Top 2 in each division go to the playoffs. Theres your 12 team playoff right there, with the Top 2 with the overall best records get a bye. Playoffs start on the first week of December, and the the National Championship to be played on New Years Day at the Grand Daddy of them all…The R🌹se Bowl. Along with putting a statue right in front of the entrance of the late Great Voice of College Football himself, Mr Keith Jackson. You can still have the bowl games system as a college football NIT for teams that didnt make it, who won 6 games or how many you think they should win to participate in one. I think this system would be a Win-Win for everybody. It would make CF the #1 Sport by far here in the states, and you dont have to worry about a good ol boy commitee to have a a bias choice on who gets in.

[@ryant2412]

Midwest- Michigan Ohio state Notre dame Michigan state Wisconsin Purdue Iowa Illinois Minnesota Northwestern Indiana Nebraska Kansas Mizzou Kentucky Iowa state West- USC Ucla Oregon Washington Stanford Oregon state Washington state Arizona Arizona state Cal Colorado Texas tech Baylor Tcu Kansas state Byu East- Penn State Miami Florida State North Carolina Rutgers Maryland Nc State Boston college Virginia Virginia tech Duke Wake forest Pitt Syracuse West Virginia Cincinnati South- Alabama Georgia Lsu Ole Miss Miss state Tenn Auburn Florida Texas Texas a&m Ohklahoma Oklahoma state South Carolina Vanderbilt UCF Arkansas

[@ethanwhite6440]

@@ryant2412 the dude laid out 6 regions, not 4. why would you even take the time to make this comment? lol

[@bigs2469]

What? Nah, let's just continue scheduling matchups like Georgia vs. Ball State and then randomly pick which teams make the CFP based off our feelings.

[@corymiller913]

Realigning these teams into new groups geographically and creating a new system where all teams benefit and creates an ultra-competitive playoff with many sponsored pool/group play sounds like a dream job to me. Where do I apply?

[@richardthelionheart5594]

Go Chipper, go ! Lightening them up !

[@nohalfmeasures6]

lol Chip is a quiet genius, he's straight fire. 💪💪🔥🔥

[@AaronEastman-gf5fx]

This would even increase revenue drastically and cut costs logistically.

[@thomasleonard7222]

As an Eagles fan, don't do this, don't get me to agree with Chip Kelly

[@tnekeroom9897]

Try being a ucla fan bro. I hate this man with a passion

[@travishancock2302]

Damn. Makes sense to me.. but I would fkn hate if we had to pay for Apple, Amazon, Nike, google, peacock whatever else to watch games.

[@thegirlsclub24]

Chip said what needed to be said 💯

[@caroo367]

the people always loved chip, what a guy

[@Im_a_49er]

Wow. I’ve garnered new found respect for Chip Kelly. I hated his NFL stint. But he actually has several great points AND SOLUTIONS! All those pac 12 rivalries down the drain, Football too. Long season. Players pay from NCAA NOT Nil. And gaming scheduling. Someone from the NCAA invite this man over for a retreat and soak up some ideas.

[@kaptainh5538]

Great Interview Chip Kelly . Better than Saban :) Saban does coaches speak . Saban has speech writers - Dr.Kevin Elko was his main guy at Bama

[@rileyfair5]

Notice how this wasnt an issue until players required millions to go to school. NIL and the transfer portal has ruined the culture of college football

[@RedNekLvr22]

Anyone with a brain should've saw this coming, but let's face it college football has always been a joke. What other sport, for such a long time, picked their champion through a poll? College football was so backwards for so long, it wasn't worth watching...ever. Now add the transfer portal to all this silliness, and everyone is a gun for hire. Granted, colleges were making ridiculous amounts of money off of athletes' names and images. The money was out of control, and it seemed unfair for the atheltes to not get anything from it, but now we've gone from one extreme to the other. The dog finally caught the car, and now the proverbial dog doesn't know what to do. College basketball is having similar problems. We SHOULD get rid of college basketball and football. The NBA and NFL should simply start new developmental leauges that athletes must stay in for three years while getting paid and be done with it. Quit trying to pretend this has anything to do with getting an education. It doesn't. Sadly, that won't happen due to the money colleges bring in, but it really is what needs to happen. We need to quit fooling ourselves.

[@rileyfair5]

@@RedNekLvr22 um ok? I think you need a therapist...

[@RedNekLvr22]

@rileyfair5 I was agreeing with you and giving extended opinions about the topic YOU brought up in a post. I'm... sorry??? 🤔

[@rileyfair5]

@RedNekLvr22 that really wasn't any opinion as much as you going on a tyrant about college sports. Also saying quit pretending sounded like you were saying it to me. My bad. But it's really not a big deal. These kids should just play and be grateful for the opportunity no other kids get that would give an arm to be in their position

[@RedNekLvr22]

@rileyfair5 I'll happily edit that line, but "(You) Quit trying..." wasn't directed toward you specifically, I promise. That was a general, 2nd person plural, understood "You". My English teachers would be proud. 😁

[@erinwilson8712]

Loved your interview with Chip!

[@jackgucci1]

Just a great example of a guy in the trenches thinking about things logically…something about becoming upper management makes you completely illogical.

[@thedimlitroom3747]

Accidental slight when Pat asked him what the conclusion to his game was (if it was big people would just know)

[@john670]

3 divisions, each with 32 teams. Each division has two 16 team conferences, lets say seperated into North vs South. No need for playoffs, each conference has a championship game, then we play a North vs South championship. And the US finally gets relegation. The winner in division 2 moves up to division 1. And there is also a game between the 2 worst teams to determine who gets demoted.

[@GilBlock]

European basketball league rules lol

[@ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh1885]

Love chip man

[@daleleblanc8115]

Let's do it! Make it happening

[@minime8g]

I hate what this guy did the to Eagles, but he’s spitting bars right here👏👏👏

[@darthweenies]

I dont particularly like what hes doing to ucla either lol.

[@brianwideman2342]

It's simple colleges can opt out of the NCAA any time they want.

[@jkdmyrs]

Ok let’s say UCLA leaves the NCAA tomorrow… now what..? UCLA won’t have a sports season.

[@jamescarroll1101]

Wasnt talkn that sheet when he thought he bought enough guys to win the national title lol😂

[@hattershouse710]

Go Bruins!

[@JVig77]

I’m all for NIL and players getting paid. I’m a life long college football fan but the transfer portal seems like it’s killing the game.

[@cjboyer4355]

It’s not the portal it’s NIL. The players just need to make a flat fee based on their class and level of play. It’s not the portal or players being paid it’s the bidding wars.

[@Ivypoison23]

@@cjboyer4355the portal definitely needs some work. NIL is killing the game the most though. You shouldn’t be able to transfer as easily as they are now

[@sportgeek2028]

Great show

[@avid4810]

The ONLY time I will agree with Chip Kelly. Still can’t forgive him for what he did to the Eagles though.

[@Fairride]

The secret to victory aligns in the organization of the non obvious.

[@ianrhea3637]

ITS GOIN DAHN PAL

[@mrrodriguezHLP]

He's hurt my Trojans a lot over the years. But damn if he isn't right.

[@nokizzy4504]

He’s right

[@frankcarson8330]

I love it. Add relegation and you give opportunities for the "group of five" schools to move up and those not performing well enough in the "power 5" move down, and it's almost too perfect.

[@willjimenez9013]

My favorite grand dragon 😅

[@aztucsonman77]

It sounds to me like QB Moore tranfered to University of Oregon to get that NIL money. These players start assuming like hey maybe I'm not gonna be good enough to play in NFL so I better try to get that bag in college and I guess you know Oregon is allowing these players to do that. I could be wrong about why he transferred there but that probably had something to do with it basically.

[@Vichinsky-ox8px]

No he wanted to start.

[@jimmyjams1974]

He is 💯 right

[@juanbaez6771]

@CharlieBaker You should have a conversation with Coach Kelly. Make the business make sense.

[@jracer7189]

Independents in football still would have many problems like the big time brands would get more money over the smaller ones that’s why conferences exist into todays landscape and why the big ten went with fox and the sec went with ESPN to share there revenue and promote them and have tv rights deals you think the TV NETWORKS want to negotiate with each individual team that’s why like a team like northwestern gets a seat at the table with teams like Ohio state and Penn state otherwise they would not be worth what they are but because they are in the big ten they are. But I get where he’s coming from

[@jeffadventures1]

I think we found our first College Football Commisioner!

[@ethanwhite6440]

chip been eatin GOOD since he's been in LA 😳

[@05645ci]

Chip's great, what an entertainer; he could do anything well, no wonder he's such a successful coach

[@Ehle2]

What a question by Jay T blowin up

[@billyyank5807]

Ohhh he's spent many long nights thinking of this stuff.

[@brennentoquam]

This makes so much sense. Which is why it won't happen.

[@markc2940]

NFL in the fall and college football in the spring. Basketball and baseball in the summer. Please!!! That would be a whole year of sports lol

[@user-uh1li4ni2n]

GO BRUINS!!!!!!!!

[@MJGOAT]

Shoutout to jay tust from boise for asking

[@jaymoney4706]

Chip is awesome

[@centralbears3010]

hell yeah

[@HTHAMMACK1]

You can't have a draft in college football. How the hell are you going to tell a kid where he has to go to college and play ball? That's ludicrous. I agree with a lot of it, but the draft model for college is stupid.

[@timothyhoehn4912]

1 part NFL, 1 part Premier league mix and serve.

[@jracer7189]

The NCAA dropped the ball on this

[@btbarr16]

Universities too. They fought so long to not pay players and kinda won, but now the success of their programs depends on booster money going to NIL.

[@rossyoung4040]

When has the NCAA not dropped the ball on anything though? They consistently sit on their hands until they are forced to stand up and do something, constantly behind the times!!

[@TokenKnoll]

The only problem with is take is that the players and the coaches deserve to money. Football runs all of the other sports at each college. Football pays for all of the other sports. I’m not saying what is right or wrong. But the football program has always run the athletic department. Am I wrong?

[@real_blackmamba8665]

Chip has the blueprint! Oh yea Go Bruins

[@yamyamyams2629]

Hey Chip, we still are pissed at you in Philly.

[@DJPrince2032]

If you're reading this before watching the clip, get ready for some premium 91 octane from Chip Kelly because he just dropped a big old truth bomb!

[@kylesherman895]

The amount of PMS airtime dedicated to pitching the complete monopolization of CFB is definetley organic and in now way related to his paychecks from Mickey Mouse

[@kylesherman895]

Oligopily if we being technical but y'all get the point.

[@05645ci]

College QB's are looking to trade up schools now, see Sam Hartman, WF to ND, Riley Leonard, Duke to ND, etc.

[@Vichinsky-ox8px]

Heck just like coaches

[@WillBoothe3]

It would need to have a some sort of relegation system for me to be in

[@OregonBob1955]

We need to get ESPN’s Steven A. Smith on board with this!

[@theomackey3]

Coaches should not vote. Coaching is enough. Let others that KNOW about business run the business. It may be time to divest ametuar athletics from the so called learning institutions. Just props. So many solutions once thats done.

[@johnheavner7947]

You need to take the next step from Chips idea: disassociate the NFL farm system from the university. Does anyone think this lie can continue?

[@alansjf33]

All this started when Americans refused to admit that College Football is its own professional sport.

[@cameron1100]

Obviously hasn’t really thought this through 😂

[@salzuno79]

UCLA fan here. Fire Chip Kelly…and he could go be the commissioner ✌️

[@chadreeves403]

I just think Nil needs to be used more for performance on the field as an actual member of the team. Currently, NIL is used as a bribery system to attract recruits. I’m just not a fan of paying somebody who has done nothing for your program yet. For those who disagree, here is my logic. You are supposed to choose a school to get educated and your criteria should include that. Not just how much money you can get.

[@joshuatijerina4498]

Chip Kelly for College football Commissioner!!

[@tnekeroom9897]

Yes. Anything to get him tf outta ucla I’m in forn

[@ttwil3319]

THE REASON THOSE OTHER SPORTS LIKE WOMEN'S SOFTBALL MOVE CONFERENCES WITH FOOTBALL IS BECAUSE FOOTBALL PAYS FOR THERE SPORT...LET'S NOT ACT DUMB 🙄

[@richardthelionheart5594]

O, and by the way, nothing will be done. CFB will morph into an exclusive c.7team only undertaking. And if you're not one of the preferred (7) u get no air time and no ... $$$$$$$$

[@KerbouchardFarms]

Sooooo many facets of this missed...you can't pay football players with Title IX in place. The law will not allow you to treat men's football (and basketball) different than women's lacrosse. Texas Longhorns have one of the highest amounts of football revenue in college sports at $162million for the 2021-2022 year against operating expenses of $51.5million (the entire athletic department earned ~$240million of which $77million was donations and I don't know where the legality of that being a writeoff for tax purposes can stay in place with "for profit" sports). The schools are allowed 85 players in football and Texas specifically has 714 student athletes. The disclosures for Texas said that of the $240million in revenue $225million went to expenses, meaning you are going to split $15million in "profit" between 714 players, wow a massive ~$21,500 each per player. That is the numbers at one of the biggest schools in terms of revenue, it gets way worse at smaller schools.

[@andyeighttre]

Throw Title and the NCAA out the window. Both are trash.

[@KerbouchardFarms]

​@@BertrandHolton First off, the numbers would have to stay the same across every school (in terms of dollars paid out to athletes) in the "super conference" otherwise you have a massive recruiting advantage that no school will allow. Secondly, no football player who is "earning" that money (by being the revenue generating sport) taking hundreds of collisions every season is going to accept making the same amount of money as cross country runners and they SHOULDN'T. Thirdly, Georgia has 704 student athletes according to a simple Google search of "Georgia athletics student athletes" so don't know where you got 523.

[@lonnieyancer3256]

Giant money grab. At least they are going to share it with the players. Can I buy stock in universities? Tuition up 130% and sports revenue up. Broken prehistoric systems. Like congress. Lol.

[@harold415]

Brought nothing but embarrassing moments to the 49ers. Not really a fan of this coach

[@adrianstreetatkins2172]

He made a lot of good

[@BenMassari-zk2wd]

Why can’t we see pat’s arms?!?

[@alex-og.zalez9403]

Look I'm an eagles fan, my relationship with chip Kelly is ehhh, but I've never agreed with someone on this topic more than I do rn

[@hiiiiiiiiiiiiii_molly]

👍🏼

[@ThePotatodawg]

Pack 12 had a weak commissioner and fan base. Imo

[@gbrooks799]

College football is a total MESS... I get it, the coach wont come out and say it... But, the NIL and Portal need to be scraped... College football needs to be RESET! Make it about academics and amateur sports... If the pros need a farm league, then CREATE a farm system... I have NO idea what they were thinking when they came up with this...

[@bigglilwayne7050]

Conferences need to be abolished...

[@glb9024]

Not hard and logical. There is the problem. These college presidents are not able to comprehend these concepts. Chip might need to retire from coaching and become the commissioner.

[@paulmason9186]

If you start paying players get rid of the scholarships for them, let them pay their own way. Good god they get so much already!

[@dkcrook5]

you saying they should go to class

[@ucantguardo]

Those kids deserve the money they are receiving. Colleges made millions for decades off kids risking their lives in one of the most dangerous sports out there. Just cause YOU, or the ppl in your town didn’t work hard enough/ was talented enough to create that opportunity for themselves. Jealously is a very disgusting trait, nobody ever puts themselves and another person shoes that’s successful and sees what all they had to sacrifice and go through to get where they are at. Lazy ass entitled generation.

[@jonathonbecker2030]

Hate UCLA but love this!

[@ryanboldt7751]

That’s just another professional league. Which is fine. Maybe the players don’t even go to classes or anything. They're not really at these universities for academics anyway. It's just the G League for NFL.

[@mephistosoa6091]

The only problem with that arguement. Why would you give schools back the power. Thats how we got here in the first place. NCAA was to preserve the spirit of amateurism in collegiate sports, Hard to be a amatuer when college footabll is more than 1 billion dollar industry. They never paid the players who earned it,

[@BullCraftMaxx]

Why does Chip Kelly have any credibility left?

[@ThePotatodawg]

I agree something needs to be done. I don’t agree with one big conglomerate, some areas need to promote their sport more. I’d like to hear Saban and Kirby critique big 12 Chip Kelly.

[@jasonpdsi]

As a 49er fan I cannot look at this man's face without thinking, "This guy really stinks when his roster is garbage"

[@TheJsteiny]

Try being a Niner AND UCLA fan. Pain.

[@elbob17]

These children being millionaires while being in "college" has always been f'd up. College football ball is kind of gross.

[@donielledavis2793]

But the schools can make billions in revenue sharing off these kids?

[@Gashshiningstar]

What those adults make in college ain't got nothing to do with me. Let them get paid.

[@ucantguardo]

Those kids deserve the money they are receiving. Colleges made millions for decades off kids risking their lives in one of the most dangerous sports out there. Just cause YOU, or the ppl in your town didn’t work hard enough/ was talented enough to create that opportunity for themselves. Jealously is a very disgusting trait, nobody ever puts themselves and another person shoes that’s successful and sees what all they had to sacrifice and go through to get where they are at. Lazy ass entitled generation.

[@tw4601]

I always thought that college athletes should be able to make money off of their NIL. None of them should ever be struggling to eat or have room and board, etc. BUT at the same time, it's kinda out of control. I mean the reality is that the transfer portal has made it so that you can never depend on any player sticking around. It also means that guys are gonna play wherever the money is. It also means if the team you were on sucks or you didn't like something, you can walk and go play elsewhere. I know there's a rule about not tampering, but cmon man we all know it happens. SO now you can openly go out and tell a guy, hey come over here and we'll pay you couple hundred thousand. If you continue on this path, you'll never have the ability to compete because all the good players will leave for the best teams. In addition, those best teams always have the most money to pay them. If you're going to make this the NFL, then make it the NFL and have contracts and a salary cap.

[@antoinetheplumber]

Coaches need contracts to they can't just be allowed to leave for a job either.

[@Vichinsky-ox8px]

​@@antoinetheplumber exaclty

[@ucantguardo]

Those kids deserve the money they are receiving. Colleges made millions for decades off kids risking their lives in one of the most dangerous sports out there. Just cause YOU, or the ppl in your town didn’t work hard enough/ was talented enough to create that opportunity for themselves. Jealously is a very disgusting trait, nobody ever puts themselves and another person shoes that’s successful and sees what all they had to sacrifice and go through to get where they are at. Lazy ass entitled generation.

[@Stumble1b4]

The bowl games this year suck so far.